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The BroadsheetDAILY – 2/17/22 – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper – ‘Forcing Student to Dodge Forklifts’ CB1 Pushes for Periodic Closure of FiDi Street, to Allow Safe Access to Scho

Posted on February 17, 2022February 23, 2022
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‘Forcing Student to Dodge Forklifts’
CB1 Pushes for Periodic Closure of FiDi Street, to Allow Safe Access to School
Above: The side entrance to 26 Broadway is the point of ingress and egress for more than 800 students, who compete for space on the narrow streetscape with forklifts and delivery trucks. Below: The onetime home of Standard Oil, at 26 Broadway, is now home to four public schools.
“We have 800 kids going into that building,” said Tricia Joyce, the chair of the Youth and Education Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) said at the panel’s December 21 meeting, referring to the Broadway Educational Campus at 26 Broadway, which houses four separate public schools.
Ms. Joyce was explaining why New Street, the location of the primary entrance used by all four schools (on the back side of the building) needed to be closed periodically during school days.
“It’s not feasible to have traffic coming and going and those security barriers that stop vehicles popping up in the street at the same time,” Ms. Joyce said.
She added that New Street is already closed to most traffic, as part of the security perimeter established around the New York Stock Exchange after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but dozens of construction vehicles and delivery trucks still traverse the narrow alley each day.
Ms. Joyce explained that CB1 is asking not for a complete bans of vehicles of new Street, but only that, “it be closed three times a day for an hour apiece,” corresponding with the start of school, lunch time, and dismissal.
“We are making sure that at those times, everyone is very aware, and not planning to travel up New Street, so that there won’t be injuries to these kids,” she said. “Right now, we have people doing demolition within six inches of students’ faces, with questionable substances. We have all kinds of hazardous things happening on New Street.”
A resolution enacted at CB1’s December meeting notes that, “there has been a substantial increase in thru-traffic and construction activity—all activating the Active Vehicle Barriers to rise and fall again and again—since the beginning of the school year, forcing students, parents, faculty, and staff to dodge large forklifts, heavy-duty flatbed trucks, drivers, and hard-hats making deliveries to a nearby office building just to get access to the schools.”
The same measure notes that, “this constant activity, and the resulting scarcity of space, have caused conflict on two occasions when workers have verbally attacked students as young as ten years old,” and calls upon the City’s Department of Transportation to, “close New Street to vehicles during the hours of 7:30 to 8:30am for student arrival, 11:30am to 12:30pm [for] lunch, and 2:15p to 3:30 pm for dismissal, for the safety of their students, families, staff, and faculty.”
Matthew Fenton
The Curves Are Up
Alliance Real Estate Analysis Tracks Indicators for Rentals, Condos, and Retail
The Downtown Alliance has published its annual report, “Lower Manhattan Real Estate Year in Review,” which contains multiple, significant data points about the state of the community.
According to the Alliance’s analysis, Lower Manhattan currently hosts 33,650 households in 342 residential buildings.
For those wishing to lease an apartment, the news is as daunting as it is encouraging for landlords: Median rents reached an all-time high in the second half of 2021, topping out at $4,200, which surpasses a high last seen in 2019, when median rents hovered around $4,000. It also marks a rapid and steep recovery from the bottom of the rental market, during the first quarter of 2021, when local median rents were $3,000. To read more…
Paws to Reflect
Local Leaders Push City Hall to Consider the Cat’s Meow
Community Board 1 (CB1) is urging the City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) to protect a colony of feral cats that have come together in the South Street Seaport, at the site of the recently demolished New Market Building.
Feral cats, estimated to number as many as half a million in the five boroughs of New York City, face few threats during spring, summer and fall. Ample trash and New York’s prodigious rodent population provide plentiful sources of food. But in winter, they need shelter to take refuge from the cold, and water supplies often freeze. To read more…
Lights, Cameras, Violation
CB1 Pushes for Expansion in Use of Monitoring Devices
Community Board 1 (CB1) is pushing for the expanded use of traffic enforcement cameras, the automated monitoring devices that can detect violations of the speed limit and other rules (such as stopping at red lights) on public roads.
The use of such equipment began in New York nearly a decade ago, when then-Governor Andrew Cuomo allowed New York City to launch a pilot program to deter speeding in 20 school zones. The success of that initial deployment in 2013 has expanded to 950 cameras in 750 school zones, where the devices logged more than four million violations in 2020, an increase of almost 100 percent from 2019.
Data from the City’s Department of Transportation document the difference that speed cameras make, with a 71.5 percent reduction in speeding and a 16.9 percent drop in injuries at times when and in locations where they are in use. To read more…
Click on the image above to read about the BPCA’s work in maintaining Battery Park City’s parks and public spaces.
Today’s Calendar
Thursday February 17
9AM
Women’s Breakfast: Self-Care for All
LMHQ
Spotlight on practices, skills and products you can use to build out an accessible, sustainable routine to take care of yourself mentally and physically, from energy healing to CBD to movement. Free.
1PM
A Shameful Legacy: Japanese American Incarceration In The United States
Museum of Jewish Heritage
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which led to over 100,000 Japanese Americans being forcibly removed from their homes to incarceration camps all over the Western United States. The executive order was influenced by prevalent anti-Asian prejudice. Since that time, Asian Americans have faced ongoing prejudice and hatred.
Join the Museum for a program commemorating the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 and discussing the continuing violence and bigotry against Asian Americans. The program will consist of a conversation between Sam Mihara, who was a child prisoner at Heart Mountain Wyoming camp; John C. Yang, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC; and Eric L. Muller, Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the University of North Carolina School of Law. They will be interviewed by distinguished journalist Ann Curry. Free, suggested $10 donation.
6PM
Seaport Fit
Fulton Street
Today: Iron Buddha. Reservations are released at 10AM every Monday the week before class. Free.
6PM
Community Board 1’s Executive Committee
Location: Live Remote Meeting – https://live.mcb1.nyc
AGENDA
1. Community District 1 Demographics Update – Presentation by James Wilson-Schutter, Fund for the City of New York Community Planning Fellow
2. Bylaw Changes to Reflect New Public Hearing Guidance – Discussion & resolution
3. CB 1 Election Preparations – Presentation by Lucy Acevedo, Community Coordinator, Manhattan Community Board 1
4. Committee Highlights
6:30PM
Washington at the Plow: Agriculture and Slavery in the New Nation
Fraunces Tavern Museum
For more than forty years, George Washington was dedicated to an innovative and experimental course of farming at Mount Vernon, where he sought to demonstrate the public benefits of recent advances in British agriculture. In this lecture, Ragsdale will discuss these methods of British agricultural improvement and how they also shaped Washington’s management of enslaved labor. This lecture will take place via Zoom. Free.
CLASSIFIEDS & PERSONALS
Swaps & Trades, Respectable Employment, Lost and Found
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SEEKING LIVING/
WORK SPACE
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NURSES’ AIDE
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HAVE MORE FUN PARENTING
Learn how to raise a capable child and reduce friction at home.
Come learn parenting
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TRAVEL COMPANION SOUGHT
78 year old refined intellectual gentleman having a passion for cruises and travel seeking a male or female caregiver/companion in exchange for all expense paid venture on the ocean. Only requirement is relationship comfort between us and ability to help with physical care regarding the limitations and restrictions of COPD.
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NANNY WITH OVER 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE
Reliable, nurturing and very attentive. Refs Avail.
Full or Part time
Maxine 347-995-7896
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HAVE SPACE?
 Folk dance group seeks empty space of 400+ sq feet for 2 hours of weekly evening dance practice.
Average attendance is 10 women. This is our hobby; can pay for use of the space.
Call 646 872-0863 or find us on Facebook. Ring O’Bells Morris.
NURSES AIDE
Kind loving and honest Nurse’s aide seeking full-time or part-time job experience with Alzheimer’s patient and others
Excellent references available 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
ORGANIZE WITH EASE FOR HOME AND LIFE
Is your home ready for guests?
We can help you easily declutter and organize your overstuffed closets, jammed bookcases, bursting cabinets and drawers, and enormous stacks of paper to put your home in “company is coming” condition.
Randye Goldstein
212-751-9269
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Get Rich or Get Out
Analysis By Housing Group Cites Declining Affordability in Lower Manhattan
A leading housing advocacy organization has completed an exhaustive look at threats to affordability in every community in the five boroughs, and has found that Lower Manhattan ranks among the ten most at-risk neighborhoods by one key metric, while also placing in the 20 most-endangered by another.
To read more…
Lower Manhattan Greenmarkets
Tribeca Greenmarket
Greenwich Street & Chambers Street
Every Wednesday & Saturday, 8am-3pm
Food Scrap Collection: Saturdays, 8am-1pm
Open Saturdays and Wednesdays year round
Bowling Green Greenmarket
Green Greenmarket at Bowling Green
Broadway & Whitehall St
Open Tuesday and Thursdays, year-round
Market Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Compost Program: 8 a.m. – 11 a.m.
The Bowling Green Greenmarket brings fresh offerings from local farms to Lower Manhattan’s historic Bowling Green plaza. Twice a week year-round stop by to load up on the season’s freshest fruit, crisp vegetables, beautiful plants, and freshly baked loaves of bread, quiches, and pot pies.
Greenmarket at the Oculus
Oculus Plaza, Fulton St and Church St
CLOSED FOR THE SEASON
The Outdoor Fulton Stall Market
91 South St., bet. Fulton & John Sts.
212-349-1380 info@fultonstallmarket.org
Fulton Street cobblestones between South and Front Sts. across from McNally Jackson Bookstore.
Locally grown produce from Rogowski Farm, Breezy Hill Orchard, and other farmers and small-batch specialty food products, sold directly by their producers. Producers vary from week to week.
SNAP/EBT/P-EBT, Debit/Credit, and Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks accepted at all farmers markets.
TODAY IN HISTORY
February 17
Take a minute to listen to Thelonious Monk (1917 – 1982) Monk ‘Live in Paris.’
1600 – On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de’ Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak.
1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first military commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.
1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1864 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
1865 – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
1867 – The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the “Sea of Tranquility” would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
1972 – Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
1996 – In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Bluesupercomputer in a chess match.
2011 – Arab Spring: Libyan protests against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime begin.
Geronimo, American tribal leader (1829 – 1909)
Births
1758 – John Pinkerton, Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian (d. 1826)
1874 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (d. 1956)
1942 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (d. 1989)
Deaths
364 – Jovian, Roman emperor (b. 331)
1854 – John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
1909 – Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
1982 – Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
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