Author: Robert Simko

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Decrying the Decree CB1 Backs Stringer on Rescinding Mayor’s Emergency Authority The guard posted to the lobby of the Radisson New York Wall Street Hotel (corner of William and Pine Streets, one block from Federal Hall). Requisitioning hotels as homeless shelters is among the $1.5 billion in contracts...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Excise Revise Downtown Traffic May Ease with Split Verrazzano Toll In a photograph taken in 2019, MTA chief Patrick Foye describes a plan to reinstitute two-way tolling on the Verrazzano Bridge, as (left to right) New York City Council Member Margaret Chin, State Senator Brian Kavanagh, and U.S. Congress...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Downtown Voters Are Biden Their Time Local Electoral Patterns Show Varying Levels of Enthusiasm for Presidential Contenders Donald Trump’s flagship location in Lower Manhattan did little to win him votes in the election district within which 40 Wall Street is located — or anywhere else in the broader...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Unexpected Development Local Small Business Swims Against the Tide by Reopening Elizabeth Lind of Inatesso Café Casano In Italian, the word “inatteso” means “unexpected”—which is an apt adjective to describe what a small business in Battery Park City is doing. At a time when large enterprises, from the...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Bandwidth for the Dispossessed Downtown Advocacy Group Prepares Lawsuit Over Lack of Connectivity for Homeless Kids The Radisson New York Wall Street Hotel, in the Financial District, has been used as a temporary homeless shelter since March. Advocates for the homeless are preparing to sue the de Blasio...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Votes Aren’t All That’s Still Being Counted… Lower Manhattan Contributed Almost $20 Million to Political Campaigns Individuals, businesses, and organizations domiciled in nine zip codes spread across Lower Manhattan contributed $18.7 million to various political campaigns this election cycle, data from the Federal Election Commission shows. A breakdown...