Author: Matthew Fenton

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Local Heroes Alliance Acknowledges Excellence in Service by Five Downtown Leaders Chef and author Rocco DiSpirto, Susan Nitahara (widow of late CB1 chair Anthony Notaro), Jessica Lappin (president of the Downtown Alliance) and Wellington Chen (executive director of the Chinatown Partnership) at the Downtown Alliance’s...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Call for Contamination Custodian Elected Officials, Local Leaders Push for Environmental Overseer at Jail Demolition The current Manhattan Detention Complex, which the administration of Mayor Eric Adams plans to demolish and replace with the world’s tallest jail, may contain asbestos and lead—spurring calls for an...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage ‘Each of These Objects Tells a Story’ Museum of Jewish Heritage Launches New Exhibit Tracing History of Holocaust Holocaust survivor Toby Levy: “I’m scared. For my children and their children. That’s why this exhibit is so important. Everybody needs to be a witness. When I’m...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Fall In Gerrymandered District Lines Result in Staten Island Assembly Member Representing Lower Manhattan in Albany Above: Lower Manhattan community leader Justine Cuccia campaigning for the State Assembly District 61 seat representing Lower Manhattan and Staten Island. Below: Staten Island resident Charles Fall has been...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Note to readers: At presstime, the results of yesterday’s voting to elect a representative of New York State Assembly District 61 are still being tabulated. Battery Park City activist Justine Cuccia is challenging incumbent Assembly Member Charles Fall. Reasoning in the Public Square Residents Invited...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage The Line at Starbucks Is about to Get Longer New Office Conversion in FiDi to Bring Another Thousand Residents to Lower Manhattan The office tower at the corner of Broad and Beaver Streets is slated for conversion into 571 apartments. A mostly empty office building...