Author: Robert Simko

View as Webpage The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper ‘A Decade of Dust’ Rally Planned for Sunday to Oppose City Plan to Build World’s Tallest Jail in Lower Manhattan Above: NUBC co-founder Jan Lee: “This is a concrete-reinforced building with rebar steel as thick as my arm running throughout. Do you know hard it’s...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Where Kids Are the Focus Trinity Church Debuts Free Afterschool Program with Sports, Academic Help, and More A new, free afterschool program has been launched by Trinity Youth, the outreach arm of Trinity Church that focuses on middle- and high-school students. The program will offer...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Preservation as Privatization Historic, Publicly Owned Battery Maritime Building Has Reopened, But Only for Paying Customers Above: The Battery Maritime Building, built in 1909, are reopened in the summer of 2021 as Casa Cipriani. Below: A rendering of the Great Hall, as originally conceived to...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Αποχαιρετισμός BPCA Chair Will Depart to Serve as Next American Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis, the chairman of the Battery Park City Authority since 2018 (shown here chatting with residents protesting in Rockefeller Park, last July) was recently confirmed as President Biden’s nominee to serve...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper News Analysis & Opinion: Stop Driving Us Out of Our Homes Why Parity Is a Parody of Affordability The author marches in support of housing affordability in Lower Manhattan. If you live in Battery Park City, you likely received a letter in the mail recently...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper The Colors of Empathy Manhattan Youth Calls Upon Hue to Brush Aside Violence Above: Local kids are invited to collaborate on a Mural of Hope at the Downtown Community Center on Saturday. Below: Manhattan Youth executive director Bob Townley: “This is why we do art....