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View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Guide for the Perplexed A Veteran Poll Worker and Community Leader Reflects on a Moment When the Franchise Is More Confounding Than Usual Battery Park City resident Bob Schneck is a longtime activist, community leader, and poll worker, who is concerned about the process of voting this...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Should They Stay Or Should They Go? State Judge Halts Planned Transfer of Homeless Men to FiDi Hotel In a dramatic reversal of a previous ruling, New York State Supreme Court Justice Debra James on Monday afternoon granted a temporary restraining order barring the administration of Mayor Bill...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Off Again, On Again… Judge Declines to Prevent Move of Homeless Men to 52 William State Supreme Court Justice Debra James on Friday rebuffed a legal motion by Downtown New Yorkers, Inc.—which organized in recent weeks to mobilize against a plan by the administration of Mayor Bill de...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Fresh as a Daisy Kavanagh Honors Lower East Side Activist as Woman of Distinction Senator Kavanagh presents Ms. Paez with a proclamation honoring her as a Woman of Distinction Daisy Paez, a Lower East Side activist who has served for years as a local District Leader, and is...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Not So Fast… Advocacy Group File Suit to Halt Plan for Homeless Shelter in FiDi The Radisson New York Wall Street, at 52 William Street, is the site of a planned homeless shelter. A group of Lower Manhattan residents opposed to the plan recently announced by the administration of...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News What’s Up, Dock? Pier A Restaurant and Bar Shuts Down Pier A, a dock dating from the late 1800s, has been a restaurant and tavern since 2014, but recently closed. The Harbor House Restaurant on Pier A has shut down, with no definite plan to reopen. A spokesman...