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The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/26/20 ~ ‘Schools Are Not Safe to Reopen on September 10’

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage ‘Schools Are Not Safe to Reopen on September 10’ Lower Manhattan Principals and Teachers Sound Alarm about Fall Semester Hundreds of students from the Battery Park City School (P.S/I.S. 276) converge on the sidewalk in front of their building in September, 2018, to transform it into a vast...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/24/20 ~ The Weight of Water Discussion about Development Highlights Local Infrastructure Challenges

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage The Weight of Water Discussion about Development Highlights Local Infrastructure Challenges A February, 2020 water main break on South Street highlighted ongoing concerns about the capacity of local infrastructure to handle to increased load placed on the system by ongoing development. At what point does a water and...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/21/20 ~ Pretty Good Odds City Health Data Show That Slightly More Than 13 Percent of Downtown Residents Test Positive for Coronavirus

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Pretty Good Odds City Health Data Show That Slightly More Than 13 Percent of Downtown Residents Test Positive for Coronavirus Out of 22,522 Lower Manhattan residents who have been tested, a total of 3,049 came back positive. While the rate of positive results for individual local zip codes...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/19/20 ~ How to Keep Shopkeepers in Their Shops ~ Kavanagh and Niou Aim to Protect Small Businesses by Offering Tax Incentives to Landlords

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage How to Keep Shopkeepers in Their Shops Kavanagh and Niou Aim to Protect Small Businesses by Offering Tax Incentives to Landlords This iconic array of small shops on Fulton Street evokes the changing retail landscape Downtown, where small businesses have been buffeted by rising rents and cut-throat competition...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/17/20 ~ Putting the ‘Down’ in Downtown Real Estate Local Apartment Rents and Sales Prices Tumbled in the Second Quarter

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Putting the ‘Down’ in Downtown Real Estate Local Apartment Rents and Sales Prices Tumbled in the Second Quarter A trio of reports quantifies the extent to which property prices in Lower Manhattan crumbled in the three months ending June 30. A pair of analyses from Platinum Properties, a...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/14/20 ~ Welcome to the Velodrome Visionary Plans for Getting Around Downtown Focus on Two Wheels and Two Feet

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Welcome to the Velodrome Visionary Plans for Getting Around Downtown Focus on Two Wheels and Two Feet The City plans to create 80 miles of additional bike lanes, like this one near City Hall, in the near future. A pair of new studies outlines a future for Lower...