Tag: The Broadsheet

Truth, Justice, and the Occasional Refund

Three hundred years ago, when New Yorkers were still British subjects, there were redcoats patrolling the streets of Lower Manhattan. Today, they’re still here — but much friendlier. The lobsterbacks of the 21st Century are the Downtown Alliance’s Public Safety Officers, who handle everything from medical emergencies to interventions on behalf of aggrieved tourists who...

A Shore Thing

The February 16 meeting of the Seaport/Civic Center Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) considered whether Lower Manhattan deserves a beach of its own. Graeme Birchall, president of the Downtown Boathouse, a local non-profit organization that promotes public access to the water, spoke in support of creating one. He also responded to “Brooklyn Bridge Beach: Feasibility...
A rendering of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Beach, along the Manhattan shore of the East River, illustrates how public access to the water might be accommodated on the shore, just north of the South Street Seaport.

Decisions Are Made By Those Who Show Up

Legendary newspaper editor John B. Bogart (who ruled over the New York Sun from 1873 to 1890) summed up journalism this way: “When man bites dog, that’s news.” Steps away from Bogart’s former headquarters at Chambers and Broadway, an even rarer — and more consequential — reversal of accustomed roles will take place tomorrow (Saturday, February 20),...
The Rev. Dr. Bill Lupfer, Trinity's rector and Mike Gill, of opinion research firm Gill Wright, discuss the Lower Manhattan community's wish list for the new building at 74 Trinity Place.

Apseity Facto

More than 100 residents of the Financial District, along with elected officials and representatives of City government agencies, were on hand for the February 11 kickoff meeting of the FiDi Neighborhood Association. Although Lower Manhattan’s other communities (Tribeca, Battery Park City, and the Seaport/Civic Center District) have long had a strong local identity and distinct...

They Campaigned in Poetry, But Will Govern in Prose

With over 60,000 volumes of poetry, over 80,000 visitors annually and millions of viewers online, Poets House sets the standard for national literary programming. Nicholas Potter On February 12, America’s poetry library elected new leadership to its board of directors. Nicholas Potter was elected president of the board of directors, has been a member of...

Sight Unseen

The management team at the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) asked members of the agency’s board to approve more than 100 pages of financial statements and regulatory filings that only one of them had read, because the documents were legally required to be submitted to State overseers 48 hours later. At the January 27 meeting...