Whirlybird Bills Struggle to Get Airborne

Drives to Limit Chopper Flights Face Headwinds A series of developments in recent weeks have both frustrated and encouraged Lower Manhattan residents seeking relief from incessant helicopter noise. In February, Dan Goldman, the newly elected Congressional representative for Lower Manhattan, introduced the Safe And Quiet Skies Act, a proposed law that would restrict local helicopter...

Expatriates As Compatriots

Timely Themes Invoked in Timeless Language at Museum of Jewish Heritage In 2019, filmmaker and composer Josh Waletzky was invited by the Yiddish Summer Weimar festival to write a new song cycle “based on the flourishing of Yiddish culture that was taking place in Berlin, in particular, between the two World Wars.” But Mr. Waletzky...

Of Gendarmes and Genes

Downtown Public Service Group Slams DNA Collection from New Yorkers Convicted of No Crime On the third anniversary of promises by City officials to disclose demographic information about New Yorkers whose genetic material was gathered without their knowledge or consent, a non-profit organization based in Lower Manhattan is denouncing what it calls continued stonewalling on...

Putting Her on a Pedestal

Local Leaders Seek to Remedy Monumental Mistake Community Board 1 (CB1) is urging the City to erect a monument in Lower Manhattan to a civil rights pioneer who desegregated New York transit in the decade before the Civil War. While the saga of Rosa Parks and the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott has become a canonical...

‘We Know That Promise Was False’

Goldman Pushes Adams to Release Documents from 2001 about City Hall’s Awareness of Ground Zero Health Risks Congressman Dan Goldman is taking up a cause championed by Jerry Nadler (Mr. Goldman’s predecessor as Lower Manhattan’s representative in Washington), demanding that the administration of Mayor Eric Adams make public previously unreleased City documents that may shed...