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A Bridge in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Budget

A team from the City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) updated the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) on Tuesday evening about the plans for the West Thames pedestrian bridge, which is slated to begin before the end of this month. Matt Krenek, an engineer with Skanska USA (the outside firm managing the...
Lynne Guey, an assistant vice president at the City's Economic Development Corporation, and Matt Krenek, an engineer with Skanska USA (the outside firm managing the West Thames Bridge project) update members of Community Board 1's Battery Park City Committee about the pedestrian span, which is slated to begin construction before the end of this month.

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 5/18/21 ~ Fewer Local High School Students Apply for College Financial Aid

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Considering a Gap Year Fewer Local High School Students Apply for College Financial Aid In what may augur a lingering social impact from the COVID-19 pandemic, data compiled by a national clearinghouse for information about college applications and admissions shows that five local high schools, either located in...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 5/17/21 ~ Multiple New Bikes Lanes Coming to Lower Manhattan, Adding to Growing Local Network

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Valorizing Velocipedes Multiple New Bikes Lanes Coming to Lower Manhattan, Adding to Growing Local Network The plan announced by Mayor de Blasio amid much fanfare earlier this year—to dedicate one traffic lane, on the Manhattan-bound side of the Brooklyn Bridge, for conversion into a two-lane bike path—has been...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 5/14/21 ~ Riddle: What Does Downtown Have More of Than Any Other Neighborhood?

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Riddle: What Does Downtown Have More of Than Any Other Neighborhood? Hint: Want to Buy a Brand New, Never-Used Condo Apartment at a Steep Discount? Multiple analyses of price trends in residential real estate for Lower Manhattan illustrate an ongoing portrait that is grim for homeowners and landlords,...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 5/13/21 ~ Links and Shackles, As Symbols of Unity and Division now on display at City Hall Park

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Of Human Bondage Links and Shackles, As Symbols of Unity and Division “Song of the Broken Chains,” one of six pieces by renowned sculptor Melvin Edwards, now on display at City Hall Park. The Public Art Fund, a non-profit that presents contemporary pieces in New York public spaces,...