Author: Matthew Fenton

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Say It Taint So Multiple Contaminants Identified at FiDi Development Site The vacant lot at the corner of Washington and Carlisle Streets, in the Financial District, where environmental analysis has confirmed the presence of arsenic, barium, lead, and mercury, among numerous other pollutants. Community Board...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Public Property, Private Profit Rally for Affordable Housing at World Trade Center Site Precedes Hearing Tonight Above: Democratic Congressional nominee Dan Goldman addresses a rally of supporters for 100 percent affordable housing at Five World Trade Center. Below: A rendering of the proposed 900-foot-plus tower...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Lower Manhattan Gets a Bit Lower Declining Apartment Rents and Spiking Office Vacancies Signal Soft Property Market The Downtown Alliance has released its summary of Lower Manhattan real estate indicators for the second quarter of 2022, and most signs point to a slowdown in the...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Whose Park Is It, Anyway? City Agency Plans to Fence Off Five Thousand Square Feet of Battery for Storage Above: The site of the former Beer Gardens at the View restaurant is slated to become a parking and equipment storage facility. Below right: The current...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Vaccine Void Kids in Southern Battery Park City Among Least Protected Against Polio More than four in ten children in southern Battery Park City fail to meet the threshold of three polio shots by age five, according to data from City health officials. Amid rising...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Whither Wagner? Opponents of the Resiliency Plan Rally as BPCA Plans Imminent Closure and Revamp of Park On August 16, people gathered in Wagner Park to rally for changes to the resiliency plan. As the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) prepares to close Wagner Park...