Author: Robert Simko

BroadsheetDAILY ~ 6/9/20 ~ ‘When People Answer that All Lives Matter, They are Lying’ A Lifelong Resident of Downtown Considers Blackness Within a Bubble of Privilege

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage ‘When People Answer that All Lives Matter, They are Lying’ A Lifelong Resident of Downtown Considers Blackness Within a Bubble of Privilege “This community exists largely in a bubble,” reflects Mariama James, a local leader who serves as the co-chair of the Quality of Life Committee of Community...
Mariama James

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ Gauges Become Less Grim Fourteen New Cases, and One Additional Death in Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Gauges Become Less Grim Fourteen New Cases, and One Additional Death in Lower Manhattan A weekly statistical update from the City’s Department of Health indicates that 68 residents of Lower Manhattan have died from the pandemic coronavirus, while 797 have tested positive for the disease. A New York...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 6/4/20 ~ Flight of Fancy

Planes circle the Statue of Liberty towing banners that read “Congratulations to Federal State of New China!” View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Flight of Fancy Chinese Exile and Ex-Trump Advisor Fill the Skies over Lower Manhattan with Proclamations of a New Nation Republican political strategist Steve Bannon and fugitive Chinese billionaire Miles Guo...

Judge Not

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Judge Not Downtown Non-Profit Sues to Gain Release of Protestors Demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis take a knee outside the Municipal Building on Tuesday evening, June 2, 2020. A non-profit based in Lower Manhattan is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) to obtain...

The BroadsheetDAILY 6/2/20 ~ COVID Compensation

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News COVID Compensation CB1 Endorses Push to Expand VCF Coverage to Pandemic Illness A community leader has proposed that federal programs aiding September 11 first responders and survivors be expanded to cover the pandemic coronavirus. Community Board 1 (CB1) has signed on to a campaign that aims to expand...