Author: Robert Simko

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/14/21 ~ ‘It Will Be Very Easy’ New Governor Plans to Get BPC Opinions Regarding Essential Workers Monument

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper ‘It Will Be Very Easy’ New Governor Plans to Get BPC Opinions Regarding Essential Workers Monument Above: Newly installed Governor Kathy Hochul, who wants to continue with plans for an Essential Workers Monument in Battery Park City. Below: Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace...
Governor Kathy Hochul

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/13/21 ~ A Pillar of the Community Passes from the Scene ~ In Memoriam: Gus Ouranitsas

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper In Memoriam: Gus Ouranitsas A Pillar of the Community Passes from the Scene Maria and Gus Ouranitsas, with their three grown children (from left): Nestor, Marina, and Konstantine. Konstantinos (Gus) Ouranitsas, a pillar of the Battery Park City community and the longtime Resident Manager of the...
Maria and Gus Ouranitsas, with their three grown children (from left): Nestor, Marina, and Konstantine.

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/10/21 ~ The Aftermath A Resident’s Recollections from the Months After September 11, 2001

View as Webpage The Broadsheet Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper The Aftermath A Resident’s Recollections from the Months After September 11, 2001 By Michelle Ashkin Everybody asks me what it is like to live “down there.” They mean, of course, near Ground Zero, which is a block away from my front door. The sounds, smells, and...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/9/21 ~ Wondering Whether You Have Been Worth the Windfall

View as Webpage The Broadsheet Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Wondering Whether You Have Been Worth the Windfall You recall the frenetic chaos—people wandering blithely into traffic, while cars with flashing lights and bleating sirens tried to make lurching progress by driving on sidewalks. And everyone staring upward, transfixed.    Even amid the bedlam, one anomalously serene (even...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/9/21 ~ Lower Manhattan Community Sidelined from September 11 Observances, Again

View as Webpage The Broadsheet Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Anniversary Exclusion Lower Manhattan Community Sidelined from September 11 Observances, Again On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, Battery Park City residents Charles Owen Frederick and his son Uriah emerged from their apartment and walked past the hellish cloud on their way to reunite with their family....