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May 10 at West and Murray Streets: Pedestrian Sarah Chan is run over with enough force to sever her foot. A new study documents that response times for 911 calls are slower in the First Precinct, which covers Lower Manhattan, than in any other district south of Midtown (an area that comprises seven NYPD commands)...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com| ebroadsheet.com Tragedy Compounded by Delay Renewed Concerns about Emergency Response Time in Lower Manhattan May 10 at West and Murray Streets: Pedestrian Sarah Chan is run over with enough force to sever her foot. A new study documents that response times for 911 calls...

The Telephone Kiosk 12:30PM Blitz Chess Battery Park City Parks A lunch time program for passersby on their lunch break to play chess. Actually, not just chess…Blitz chess! Blitz chess is a form of speed chess played on a clock where each opponent gets five minutes. It is fast, furious and fun. Rockefeller Park House....

Spring Sightings Black and White Warbler seen in Battery Park An ovenbird seen in Trinity Yard Common Yellowthroat Warbler outside Brookfield Place Mallard in the Hudson off the esplanade

The northern edge of Battery Park City, behind Stuyvesant High School, will be the focus of a new resiliency project, to be designed over the coming three years. The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has hired an engineering firm to begin designing resiliency measures for the community’s northern border, and extending into Tribeca. At the...

On springtime evenings in the Northern Hemisphere, extend the handle of the Big Dipper to arc to Arcturus, spike Spica and slide into the constellation Corvus the Crow. This arc is sometimes called the spring semicircle. The Crow’s bill is pointed toward the Virgin’s jewel, Spica, as if it were waiting for a chance to grab...