The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper
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Not for a Lack of Interest
Trinity Underwrites Benevo-Lending Initiative for Public-Service Groups
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In 2021, Trinity Church made $46.7 million in grants and program-related investments, which were disbursed to 286 recipients.
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Trinity Church’s grant program has funded a Lower Manhattan public service organization that provides zero-interest loans and consulting services to other not-for-profits, as they continue to struggle with pandemic-related resource deficits.
The Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), based in Hanover Square, is a community development financial institution that specializes in lending (at low- or no-cost) to charities for projects such as buying and renovating buildings, or bridging financial shortfalls that arise, for example, when government agencies are slowing in paying. Since 1980, NFF has lent more than $1 billion to other philanthropic organizations, with missions ranging from affordable housing to education and the arts. The group currently oversees a loan portfolio of more than $335 million.
In late 2020, Trinity Church issued an $8 million grant to NFF to launch the Trinity Church Wall Street Grantee Loan Fund, a partnership through which Trinity provides zero-interest loans to New York charitable groups working in the areas of housing, homelessness and racial justice, with the recipients selected (and the transactions managed) by NFF.
This spring, Trinity and NFF reallocated a portion of these funds to create a reservoir of additional support services for grant recipients, including finance workshops and tailored coaching to help them adhere to best practices in fiscal management.
“Nonprofits face continued and increased challenges in providing the critical programs and services they offer daily in neighborhoods across New York City,” said Neill Coleman, chief philanthropy officer at Trinity Church. “It is our hope that this will help to continue to build partnerships with grantees that are providing vital direct services.”
In 2021, Trinity Church made $46.7 million in grants and program-related investments, which were disbursed to 286 recipients.
By Matthew Fenton
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Wagnerian Vigilance
Public Comment Period for BPCA’s Plans to Build Flood Walls and Elevated Landscaping
Extended to Friday, June 10, 2022
For several years, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has been working on a plan to rebuild and elevate Wagner Park and the areas to its north and south, from First Place and the Museum of Jewish Heritage to Pier A Plaza. This is the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project, currently in its Draft Environmental Impact Statement(DEIS) phase. Now through June 10, the public may submit comments on the design. To read more…
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Monday
9:30AM
6 River Terrace
Start your day by balancing your mind, body, and spirit during instructor guided meditation. This renowned practice lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system.
10:30AM
Irish Hunger Memorial Plaza
Strengthen the whole body. The instructor will lead you in rhythmic movement and aerobics, balance and coordination exercises, as well as strength training.
3:30PM – 5PM
Wagner Park
Young stewards explore the wondrous ecosystem of the Hudson River. Practice the skills required to operate a rod and reel and experience the thrill of catch-and-release fishing. Identify our native fish for data submission to research groups to help monitor the health of our local waters. Water testing and other fun projects will augment the study. Registration required, email: registration@bpca.ny.gov6:30PM
Pier 17 Concert
Rooftop concert.
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Tuesday
10:30AM
Zumba
6 River Terrace
Join in on the fun featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography while working on your balance, coordination and range of motion.
11AM – 3PM
Fosun Plaza
Dine Around Downtown has been bringing the neighborhood’s restaurateurs together for this annual lunchtime celebration since 1997. Sample signature menu dishes at a feast of Lower Manhattan restaurants for $5 to $9 all at one community food festival.
3:30PM – 5PM
Drop-In Chess at Rockefeller Park
Play the popular strategy game while getting pointers and advice from an expert. Chess improves concentration, problem solving, and strategic planning — plus it’s fun! For ages 5 and up (adults welcome).
6PM
6:30PM
Pier 17 Concert
Rooftop concert.
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Wednesday
9AM
China Institute, 40 Rector Street
Top experts will share their insights and examine the possibilities and challenges associated with China’s Green Belt and Road Initiative. Since its inception in 2013, the China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been striving to promote economic development and inter-regional connectivity across the globe, and over 140 member countries have joined the Initiative. To reduce the negative environmental impact of the investment in BRI countries, China launched the Green Belt and Road initiative to increase BRI’s environmental sustainability and align its projects with its 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Given the current geopolitical and COVID-19 situation, what are GBRI’s most pressing challenges and most important opportunities?
10AM
Rector Park East
Observe and sketch the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. An artist/educator will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Drawing materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media.
11AM – 5PM Today through the weekend
Take a self guided tour of the tall ship Wavertree, and visit the 12 Fulton Street galleries to view the exhibitions “South Street and the Rise of New York” and “Millions: Migrants and Millionares” aboard the Great Liners.
12:30PM
En Garde Arts
Bowling Green Park
Fictional walking tour. When an out-of-work Downtown performance artist takes a job leading a Hamilton Walking Tour even further Downtown, she is prepared to give the standard tour about the trendiest Founding Father. But when an unexpected fork in the road presents a path not taken, she can’t help but follow it, uncovering the secrets contained within the oldest streets in New York and revealing the New York you always knew, or wanted to know. Also at 5:30pm. $20 ticket comes with a $20 voucher to use at a local participating restaurant.
1PM
En Garde Arts
Zucotti Park
Fictional walking tour. Javel Washington, an accidental time-traveler, arrives in present day NYC with a warning from the future. In a race against the Bots of his time, Javel hopes the stories of New Yorkers, will offer insight into the value of resilience. With the help of our audience, Javel, could discover that what makes us human will always be our secret weapon. Also at 6pm. $20 ticket comes with a $20 voucher to use at a local participating restaurant.
2PM – 4PM
Wagner Park
Embolden your artwork amidst the flower-filled and seasonally evolving palette of BPC’s verdant gardens. An artist/ educator will provide ideas and instruction. Materials provided.
3PM
Sidewalk Echoes
En Garde Arts Theater
John Street United Methodist Church, 44 John Street
How many steps does it take to transform your life? Inspired by interviews with real New Yorkers, Sidewalk Echoes invites us into the world of Lower Manhattan’s small, independent business owners. It traces their journeys to New York City and the pathways they’ve taken to survive in the unpredictable world of NYC’s oldest neighborhood. Weaving together history, fact, and fiction, Sidewalk Echoes details the remarkable choices that everyday people must make to reinvent their circumstances, and in turn themselves, against all odds. Free.
6PM
Rockefeller Park
Strengthen the body and cultivate awareness in a relaxed environment as your instructor guides you through alignments and poses. All levels are welcome. Bring your own mat.
7PM
McNally Jackson, 4 Fulton Street
Mother Ocean Father Nation is by Nishant Batsha, tonight in conversation with Kanishk Tharoor. A riveting, tender debut novel, following a brother and sister whose paths diverge—one forced to leave, one left behind—in the wake of a nationalist coup in the South Pacific.
6PM
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Thursday
10AM
National Museum of the American Indian, Diker Pavilion
Join contemporary artist Keith BraveHeart (Oglala Lakota) as he discusses Oscar Howe and his influence on both his journey as an artist as well as his art, which draws strongly from his Lakota background. This talk is related to the exhibition Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe. Sketch pads and pencils will be available for sketch-along opportunities led by Keith. Also at 1pm. Free.
4PM
Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
Skyscraper Museum
This tour explores Battery Park City’s southern district, which is home to the Skyscraper Museum and includes some of BPC’s earliest landscapes and infrastructure, including the residential enclaves built in the 1990s that followed the 1979 Cooper Eckstut Master Plan. We will visit historic Pier A, Wagner Park, and South Cove, as well as the green spaces that connect to the Esplanade, the first waterfront park in New York since the Brooklyn Heights Esplanade in 1951. We will also learn about the developing Resilience Action Plan of the Battery Park City Authority. The tour will be repeated on June 24. Free.
9PM
Downtown Alliance
Many of us have reached a critical phase of burnout, one in which just showing up for work zaps the energy we previously devoted to innovative thinking and inventive solutions. But no matter what field of work you’re in, you need to generate ideas. And to generate those ideas, you have to get creative. Join RedBox Innovation consultant Edwin Garcia to learn an actionable method to bring creativity to any practice. Participants will explore strategies to create original ideas for any challenge and any industry. After generating your ideas, you’ll figure out how to choose the most appropriate creative solution and walk away inspired to do some serious out-of-the box thinking.
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Friday
10AM
National Museum of the American Indian, Diker Pavilion
Join contemporary artist Keith BraveHeart (Oglala Lakota) as he discusses Oscar Howe and his influence on both his journey as an artist as well as his art, which draws strongly from his Lakota background. This talk is related to the exhibition Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe. Sketch pads and pencils will be available for sketch-along opportunities let by Keith. Also at 1pm. Free.
7PM
Wagner Park
Singer/songwriter Terre Roche leads this weekly singing program with the beautiful backdrop of the setting sun in NY Harbor. Open to all.
7PM
6 River Terrace
Based on a Hungarian folktale, Son of the White Mare (Marcell Jankovics,1981), is a swirling, color-mad epic journey to save the universe. Reminiscent of the hallucinatory palette of “Yellow Submarine” and the rich visual storytelling of “Fantasia,” critics have deemed it one of the greatest psychedelic animated movies ever made. Free popcorn will be served, and a discussion will follow the screenings. This film is rated PG 13.
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An End to Binary Ballots?
Gender Requirements for Some Elected Offices Sparks Calls for Reform
Ever wonder why New York State has legal quotas limiting how many women can be elected as district leaders? Blame Eleanor Roosevelt. Some background: A district leader is an unsalaried, elected official who represents an Assembly District, and essentially ensures that a political party is being governed democratically. Usually, there is one district leader for every Assembly District. But the Democratic party mandates two district leaders per Assembly District: one male and one female. To read more…
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Entry for the Gentry; Heave-Ho for the Hoi Polloi
Analysis By Housing Group Cites Threats to Affordability in Lower Manhattan
A leading housing advocacy organization has conducted an exhaustive look at threats to affordability in every community in the five boroughs, and has found that Lower Manhattan ranks among the top ten most at-risk neighborhoods by three pivotal metrics.
The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD), an umbrella organization of 100 non-profit affordable housing and economic development groups that serve low- and moderate-income residents in all five boroughs of the City, has published the 2022 edition of its annual roundup, “How Is Affordable Housing Threatened In Your Neighborhood?” To read more…
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They strut, they kiss, they preen. Click on the image to see the Pigeon Dance.
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CLASSIFIEDS & PERSONALS
Swaps & Trades, Respectable Employment, Lost and Found
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BABYSITTER/
NANNY
looking for full-time position, years of experience; loving, kind, smart sense of humor, excellent reference available; please contact javielle at 646-645-2051 javiellewilliams@icould.comAVAILABLE
NURSES’ AIDE
20+ years experience
Providing Companion and Home Health Aide Care to clients with dementia. Able to escort client to parks and engage in conversations of desired topics and interests of client. Reliable & Honest
FT/PT Flexible Hours
References from family members. Charmaine
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HAVE MORE FUN PARENTING
Learn how to raise a capable child and reduce friction at home.
Come learn parenting
the Positive Discipline way!
ML Fiske is a
Certified PD Parent Educator.
NANNY WITH OVER 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE
Reliable, nurturing and very attentive. Refs Avail.
Full or Part time
Maxine 347-995-7896
PERSONAL TRAINING,
REFLEXOLOGY,
PRIVATE STUDIO
917-848-3594
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NURSES AIDE
Nurses Aide looking full-time Elderly Care loving caring have sense of humor patience experience with Alzheimer’s patient excellent references please call
Dian at 718-496-6232
HOUSEKEEPING/ NANNY/ BABYSITTER
Available for PT/FT. Wonderful person, who is a great worker.
Refs avail.
Worked in BPC.
Call Tenzin
347-803-9523
NOTARY PUBLIC
IN BPC
$2.00 per notarized signature.
Text Paula
@ 917-836-8802
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Lower Manhattan Greenmarkets
Tribeca Greenmarket
Greenwich Street & Chambers Street
Wednesdays and Saturdays, 8am-3pm (compost program: Saturdays, 8am-1pm)
Bowling Green Greenmarket
Broadway & Whitehall St
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8am-5pm (compost program: 8am-11am)
The Outdoor Fulton Stall Market
91 South Street, between Fulton & John Streets
Indoor market: Monday through Saturday,11:30am-5pm
CSA pick-up: Thursday, 4pm-6pm; Friday, 11:30-5pm
Outdoor market: Saturday 11:30am-5pm, May through Thanksgiving
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Robert F. Kennedy lies mortally wounded after the shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He was 42 years old.
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1639 – Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1664 – New Amsterdam renamed New York
1816 – 10″ snowfall in New England, a year without a summer.
1850 – Levi Strauss make his first pair of blue jeans
1882 – Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1933 – First drive-in theater opens in Camden New Jersey
1942 – First nylon parachute jump takes place in Hartford Connecticut
WWII D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1968 – Senator Robert Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night
1988 – 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
2002 – A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to havea force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2012 – The Solar Impulse completes the world’s first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
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The assassin Sirhan Sirhan
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Births
1599 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1755 – Nathan Hale, hanged patriot
1875 – Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929)
1906 – Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn)
Deaths
1799 – Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
1941 – Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1961 – Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist, dies at 85
1968 – Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1979 – Jack Haley, actor (The Wizard of Oz), dies of a heart attack at 80
2006 – Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
(credit to wikipedia and other internet sources)
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