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Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Summer Click to watch a late afternoon storm blowing southward The Broadsheet will be on hiatus until early September. Happy summer, dear readers. Matthew Fenton, editor     Robert Simko, publisher The Weekly Calendar August 19  ~  25 Monday August 19 10:30AM Senior Group Exercise 6 River...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com For the next few nights, look up into the night sky. See the moon as it passes Jupiter. The moon has a diameter of 2,158 miles. Jupiter’s diameter is 86,881 miles, yet it appears as a speck of light here. It is 365 million miles away....

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Of Hypos and Furloughs The Lower Manhattan resident who is remembered as a patron saint of disaffected urbanites wrote in Moby Dick: “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul… and especially...

Actually, Maybe You Can Fight City Hall? Borough President and City Council Member Win Court Round Seeking to Slow Planned Development at Two Bridges City Council member Margaret Chin (left) and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer (center) at a June rally called to build support for their lawsuit against the de Blasio administration’s development plans...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Actually, Maybe You Can Fight City Hall? Borough President and City Council Member Win Court Round Seeking to Slow Planned Development at Two Bridges City Council member Margaret Chin (left) and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer (center) at a June rally called to...

Today in History    August 1 Herman Melville was born 200 years ago today in lower Manhattan. “A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.” 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt,bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic. 902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is...