Author: Robert Simko

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage The Forgetting Curve Navigating the Waters of the River Lethe Photo: Robert Simko In the recent controversy over whether the National September 11 Memorial & Museum ought to carry on this year with the annual traditions of reading the names of people who died during the terrorist attacks...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Whose Memorial Is It, Anyway? New York Congressman Pushes for National Parks Takeover of September 11 Memorial The annual Tribute in Light (on the roof of the Battery Garage) is managed by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, which controversially cancelled the observance this year, before executives reversed...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Priorities Pedagogical and Epidemiological FiDi School Deemed Unsafe to Reopen Over Ventilation Concerns The High School of Economics & Finance, on Trinity Place. A Lower Manhattan public school has been identified as potentially unsafe during a Department of Education (DOE) review of whether building ventilation systems meet new, higher...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Odious Edifice State Prosecutor Probes Trump Finances in FiDi Landmark The 70-story, Depression-Era skyscraper at 40 Wall Street, owned by Donald Trump, is the focus of a civil-fraud investigation by New York State Attorney General Letitia James. The office building at 40 Wall Street figures prominently in a...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Repositories Reemergent Downtown Museums Begin to Welcome Back Visitors Lower Manhattan cultural institutions are beginning to stir from their months-long lockdown. The 9/11 Tribute Museum (92 Greenwich Street, at the corner of Rector Street), reopened on September 3. The National September 11 Memorial & Museum(within the World Trade...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Better to Light a Candle… Event Tonight Will Honor and Remember Tribeca Teen Who Made a Difference At her June 2017 middle-school graduation, Imogen Roche joyously throws her cap into the air. A virtual vigil this evening (Wednesday, September 2) will recall the life of Imogen Roche, the...