Author: Robert Simko

In early evening twilight, near the top of an azure sky, a singular golden point of light appears to the inquisitive sky gazer. It is Arcturus (-0.07magnitude), the brightest star in the summer sky, high in the southeast at about 9:10pm. Gazing in a northerly direction, one other ray of starlight penetrates Earth’s dimming blue...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Waves of Woe Jet Ski Accident Claims One Life, Injures Second Passenger, in Waters Off Battery Park City A rescue diver emerges from the Hudson, after searching beneath the Brookfield Place ferry terminal for a missing water scooter passenger on Saturday evening. A waterborne outing...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage ‘A Bold, Progressive, And Unapologetic Voice For Our Communities’ Yuh-Line Niou Announces Candidacy for Newly Created Lower Manhattan Congressional District Above: Congressional candidate Yuh-Line Niou at her campaign kick-off in Columbus Park on Saturday, flanked by actress (and onetime candidate for Governor) Cynthia Nixon and...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage A Bite-Sized Bacchanal Taste of Tribeca Offers Samples of Everything from Anejo to Zucker’s Above: The Taste of Tribeca food festival brings world-class cuisine outdoors, to fund arts and enrichment programs at P.S. 150 and P.S. 234 Below: The festival, located on Duane Street, between...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Back to the Store of the Future Renowned Discounter Announces Return to Storied Temple of Commerce Above: The East River Savings Bank building at Church and Cortland Streets in the 1950s. Below: The facade of the same building, shown in modern times, converted to use...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage The Aliment of Surprise Trinity Church Responds to Rising Local Hunger with Compassion Meals Program Above: Trinity Church (located at Broadway and Wall Street) is one of nine food distribution sites in Lower Manhattan at which the Church provides meals to those in need, six...