Author: Robert Simko

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Empathy Emporium Trinity Church Offers Food to Those In Need Trinity Church is doubling down on its longstanding commitment providing assistance for those experiencing food insecurity, both in Lower Manhattan, and throughout the five boroughs. Trinity Church has launched its Compassion Market to aid New Yorkers experiencing food...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Homeless for the Holidays Judge Will Rule Next Monday on Whether to Allow FiDi Shelter Plans The Radisson New York Wall Street located at 52 William Street Hearings before State Supreme Court Justice Debra James on Monday and Tuesday left unresolved the question of whether the administration of...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Not with a Bang…’ Poetry Library Shuts Down, Citing Pandemic Woes The Battery Park City Authority recruited Poets House to locate in new headquarters at Ten River Terrace, in 2004. Poets House, one of a slew of cultural institutions brought to the community by the Battery Park City...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News BLOOD DRIVE TODAY Click here for more info 12 pm – 6 pm 6 River Terrace New York, NY 10282 Giving Locally, Impacting Globally Eleemosynary Advice for Reaching Out and Making a Difference Downtown An iconic photograph of homeless children in Lower Manhattan, by pioneering photojournalist Jacob Riis,...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Getting into Hot Water Court Rules That FiDi Condo Buyers Can Recover Damages from Developer for Shoddy Construction The Be@William condominium at 90 William Street, where apartment buyers allege shoddy workmanship cost them $3 million to repair, which they now seek to recover from the developer. More than...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Victim’s Vengeance New Sculpture on Centre Street Inverts Myth to Send a Feminist Message Sculptor Luciano Garbati’s “Medusa with the Head of Perseus,” now on display in Collect Pond Park, on Centre Street. In a caustic counterpoint to the “Fearless Girl” statue that attracted worldwide attention after...