Author: Robert Simko

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Outward Mobility Has Anybody Seen 11,000 Neighbors? According to a new statistical analysis released by City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Lower Manhattan’s population declined during the COVID-19 pandemic by more than that of any other community in the five boroughs, due to residents moving away. The report,...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Uneasiness about the Easements City Moves Forward with Plan to Make Sidewalk Dining Permanent, Despite Objections from Downtown Leaders Above: Outdoor dining in the Financial District. Below: State Assembly member Deborah Glick: “The focus must be on working to ensure that the parameters of any new...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper A Seawall for the Seaport City Poised to Reveal Plans for East River Landfill as Bulwark Against Flooding An outline of the area originally studied for the 2013 Seaport City proposal, which is now back in active consideration, in modified form. In its waning weeks, the...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper ‘I Want to Amplify These Voices and Bring Them to Albany’ District Leader and Community Activist Vittoria Fariello Launches Campaign for State Senate Above, District Leader and community activist Vittoria Fariello kicks off her State Senate campaign at Chatham Square. Below right, Ms. Fariello with her...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Wagnerian Woes Battery Park City Hotel Operator Implodes Amid Allegations of Fraud The Wagner Hotel, in Battery Park City, owes millions of dollars to the Battery Park City Authority and New York State tax collectors. Even by the standards of the distressed hotel industry, the spiraling...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Opportunity Makes a Thief Man Threatens and Robs Multiple Women in Downtown Subway Stations A suspect (still at large) believed by police to have threatened and robbed three women at Lower Manhattan subway stations. A man has been accosting and robbing women in Lower Manhattan subway...