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Dour Demographics

City Health Data Covering Entire Pandemic Show 150-Plus Local COVID Deaths, Among More Than 20,000 Cases

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a total of 163 residents of Lower Manhattan have died from the disease, while more than 21,356 residents have been diagnosed according to an analysis of data from the City’s Department of Health. For the eight residential zip codes of Lower Manhattan, these metrics break down as follows:

• 10280/Battery Park City South (below Brookfield Place): seven deaths and 1,585 cases (one diagnosis out of every five residents)

• 10282/Battery Park City North (above Brookfield Place): 11 deaths and 974 cases (one diagnosis out of every five residents)

• 10007/Southern Tribeca (West Street to Broadway, north of Vesey Street and south of Chambers Street): seven deaths and 1,695 cases (one diagnosis out of every four residents)

• 10013/Northern Tribeca (north of Chambers Street and south of Canal Street): 64 deaths and 7,646 cases (one diagnosis out of every four residents)

• 10006/Greenwich South (Broadway to West Street, south of Vesey Street and north of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel): one death and 1,009 cases (one diagnosis out of every three residents)

• 10005/Eastern FiDi (Broadway to the East River, south of Maiden Lane, north of Beaver Street): one death and 2,270 cases (one diagnosis out of every three residents)

• 10004/Southern FiDi (West Street to the East River, south of Beaver Street): two deaths and 942 cases (one diagnosis out of every three residents)

• 10038/the Civic Center and Seaport (Broadway to the East River, north of Maiden Lane and stretching a few blocks beyond the Brooklyn Bridge): 70 deaths and 5,235 cases (one diagnosis out of every four residents)

Across all eight zip codes, these ratios average out to 26.75 percent of all Lower Manhattan residents (or slightly more than one in four) having been diagnosed with COVID-19 at some point since the start of the pandemic.

The above totals are cumulative, from the spring of 2020. A more recent dataset, also from, the City’s Department of Health, covers the seven-day period ending last Friday (April 1). During that period, according to City statistics, 3,285 residents of Lower Manhattan were tested for COVID-19. Among these, 188 received a positive diagnosis. Assuming that the subset of residents who chose to get tested are representative of the community as a whole, this appears to imply a local rate of infection of approximately 5.7 percent.

Matthew Fenton

Social Climbing

Alliance Launches Program to Help Local Small Businesses Connect with Customers Online

The Downtown Alliance, as part of its broader effort to help Lower Manhattan’s business community recover from the COVID-19 crisis, has launched Get Social, a free program teaches local firms how best to use social media to bolster their bottom line. The Alliance will pair ten businesses with social media consultants, each of whom has demonstrated skills and strategic insight on building an audience across a variety of platforms. The program also provides each participating business with a $1,500 grant to spend on advertising and content creation.

“We’re on the ground every day talking with store owners, and we often hear about struggles to make an impact in the digital space,” says Alliance president Jessica Lappin. “Our program aims to solve this dilemma—training businesses to use social media effectively and have fun while engaging with potential customers.”

Local Heroes

Two Passionate Advocates for the Arts in Lower Manhattan to Be Fêted Friday

This Friday (April 8), the highly regarded Church Street School for Music & Art will honor two champions of the Lower Manhattan arts scene—the late Tom Goodkind and Dr. Lisa Ecklund-Flores—with a gala benefit at City Winery (25 11th Avenue, in the Hudson River Park, near 15th Street). To read more…

Floating an Idea

Port Authority Interprets Governor’s Order Littorally

Lower Manhattan residents could soon have a new option for accessing LaGuardia Airport, if planners at the Port Authority approve an option to launch ferry service between the Wall Street pier and the aerodrome in northern Queens.

The Port Authority has been compelled to take a fresh look at ways to access LaGuardia after Governor Kathy Hochul killed plans formulated by her predecessor, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, to build a new AirTrain. That proposal would have connected the airport to both the Long Island Rail Road and the subway’s 7 train—in both cases by moving passengers eastward for those transfers, when the vast majority of users would likely be headed to destinations west of the LaGuardia (such as Manhattan). This scheme was slated to cost several billion dollars.

The Way We Live Now

Census Analysis Indicates Downtown Has Become a Lot Younger, Quite a Bit More Crowded, and Slightly More Diverse

The population of Lower Manhattan has grown by almost 20,000 residents in the decade preceding the 2020 Census, according to an analysis co-authored by James Wilson-Schutter, a Community Planning Fellow affiliated with the Fund for the City of New York, who is consulting with Community Board 1 (CB1), and Diana Switaj, CB1’s Director of Planning and Land Use.

Down in the Depths on the 50th Floor

Elevator Outages Have FiDi High-Rise Tenants Out on a Ledge

Months of chronic elevator problems at a historic skyscraper in the Financial District have left tenants at 20 Exchange Place hiking dozens of flights to and from their apartments each day. At a Monday rally called by elected officials to show support for the plight of residents in the building, City Council member Christopher Marte said, “this is the worst-case scenario for any resident. The first incident was in late October, almost six months ago.” Since then, he said, “there has been neglect from Con Edison and the management office. This is unacceptable. Enough is enough. Let’s get this fixed.”

Morose Metric

Local Rates of Infection with BA.2 Version of COVID Among Highest in City

In a sharp reversal of previous trends, four Lower Manhattan neighborhoods are ranking among the top five anywhere in the City for rates of infection with the new BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron mutation of COVID-19.

In data released by the City’s Department of Health (DOH) on Sunday (covering the period from March 18 through March 24), southern Tribeca, two areas of the Financial District, and southern Battery Park City all placed among the five communities with the highest percentage positive test results for COVID infection. The four local zip codes with the highest level of positive test results were:

THE WEEK’S CALENDAR

TUESDAY APRIL 5

10:30AM

Adult 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. Come prepared for enthusiastic instruction, a little strength training and a lot of fun. Participants are encouraged to bring their own equipment: weights, water bottle, hand towel etc. Free.

6PM

Transportation & Street Permits Committee

Live Remote Meetings – https://live.mcb1.

AGENDA

1 nycIntegration of NYU Bus Service at an Existing Authorized Stop on Lafayette Street at Walker Street – Discussion and Resolution

2 OMNY Fare Payment – Updates by Melissa Farley, New York City Transit

Funding for the DOT Streets Master Plan – Discussion & Resolution

3 Civilian Enforcement of Illegal Placard Parking – Discussion & Resolution

Street Event Review: Washington Market School Fund Raiser, Duane Street – Discussion & Resolution

4 Street Event Review: Bike New York Five Borough Bike Tour, Multiple Streets – Discussion & Resolution

5 Street Event Review: American Heart Association Wall Street Run, Multiple Streets – Discussion & Resolution

5 Street Event Review: 9/11 Memorial & Museum 5K Run/Walk, Multiple Streets 5 Discussion & Resolution

7:30PM

Stories Survive: Ann Kliger Axelrod

Museum of Jewish Heritage

Ann was born Elizabeth Benedikt on August 25, 1929 in Budapest, Hungary. On March 18, 1944, when Ann was 14 years old, the Nazis invaded Hungary and forced Jews to obey the degrading laws that were already in place in Germany. Ann will be interviewed by Rick Salomon, a co-founder of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Free; suggested $10 donation.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 6

6PM

CB1’sBattery Park City Committee

6:30PM

China Institute

What was the biggest obstacle to China’s modernization as the Qing Dynasty collapsed? The Chinese language, according to Yale University Professor Jing Tsu. Back then, literacy was reserved for the elite few, and the system of calligraphy was far too complicated for the technological revolution that was sweeping the world. Join Professor Tsu as she explores the century-long fight to make the Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Free.

THURSDAY APRIL 7

6PM

9/11 Memorial & Museum

The events of 9/11 profoundly transformed how the United States engages with the rest of the world. Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton was at the forefront of that transformation, first as a senator from New York (2001-2009) and then as secretary of state (2009-2013) in the Obama administration. In this conversation with 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s Executive Vice President and Deputy Director for Museum Programs Clifford Chanin, Secretary Clinton reflects upon the attacks, the power and limitations of diplomacy in the ensuing two decades, and what the future might hold for American foreign policy. The program is at capacity and tickets are no longer available. For those unable to attend, the event will be broadcast live, with captioning, at 911memorial.org/watch.

6PM

Fulton Street

Howard Hughes Corporation

Today: Iron Buddha. Reservations are released at 10AM every Monday the week before class.

6:30PM

Fraunces Tavern Museum

Military histories often focus on battles campaigns, overlooking the soldiers who fought them. Who were the red-coated soldiers who formed the ranks of the British army in the 1770s? In this talk, Don N. Hagist will investigate where British soldiers were from, what they did before joining the army, what motivated them to enlist, how they were trained, how they lived in America on campaign and in garrison, and what became of them after the war. Free.

7PM

Online film streaming

Wake in Fright (1971,Ted Kotcheff) tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in outback Australia. Registration required.

7PM

McNally Jackson

Audrey Schulman, author of Theory of Bastards, and Samantha Hunt, author of The Seas, will come together to discuss their new genre-bending works of literature as part of McNally Jackson and Europa Editions’ series of conversations on literature from around the globe, Here & Away.

8PM

Gibney

zavé martohardjono and collaborators present TERRITORY: The Island Remembers, an examination of colonial history through a parable of an island, which, divided by a border, grapples with reconciliation. TERRITORY: The Island Remembers will premiere as a week-long multimedia installation that will take over Gibney’s Studio Y. From April 7-9, the installation will be activated with three nights of rituals, performance, and audience-interactive actions. Prior to activations, visitors are invited to the installation at no cost on April 5-9 from 12-3pm EDT. With guided instruction, installation visitors can give offerings to altars within the space to acknowledge the land and prepare it for evening activations. $15-$20.

FRIDAY APRIL 8

11AM – 5PM

South Street Seaport Museum

On Saturdays and Sundays, visit the exhibitions and the ships of the South Street Seaport Museum for free. At 12 Fulton Street, see “South Street and the Rise of New York”” and “Millions: Migrants and Millionaires aboard the Great Liners, 1900-1914,”” and at Pier 16, explore the tall ship Wavertree and lightship Ambrose. Free,

7PM

Jeff Deutsch presents In Praise of Good Bookstores, in conversation with Sarah McNally

McNally Jackson 4 Fulton Street

Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch–the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world–pays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. He considers how qualities like space, time, abundance, and community find expression in a good bookstore. Along the way, he also predicts—perhaps audaciously—a future in which the bookstore not only endures, but realizes its highest aspirations.

For the Birds

A Guide to our Feathered Friends in Lower Manhattan

Gail Karlsson is a local writer and photographer who recently began focusing on New York City birds. She has put together a photo book called A Birds’ Guide to The Battery and New York Harbor. Most of the text is written from the birds’ point of view.

In 2017, she began going on morning bird walks in The Battery led by Gabriel Willow, a naturalist working with New York City Audubon. “One day he told me that not very many birders went to The Battery, and it would be good to document what we saw there. I didn’t know much about the different birds, but I did have a new telephoto lens, and Gabriel helped me identify ones I didn’t recognize. I was amazed at how many different types of birds we found there.I decided to put them together in a book – which turned into a much bigger project than I imagined. But a really fun one.”

‘Downtown Birds’ is now on display in the ground-floor window gallery at the former Western Union building (60 Hudson) located on the northwest corner of West Broadway and Thomas now through May 1

The book A Birds’ Guide to The Battery and New York Harbor is available on Amazon.com.

Local Legacies Lionized

Three Downtown Preservation Projects Cited as Exemplars of Landmark Protection

Three of Lower Manhattan’s architectural masterpieces have been singled out for the prestigious Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, conferred each year by the New York Landmarks Conservancy, a highly regarded non-profit organization (itself based in Lower Manhattan, on Whitehall Street) that seeks to protect New York’s architecturally significant buildings. To read more…

CLASSIFIEDS & PERSONALS

Swaps & Trades, Respectable Employment, Lost and Found

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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.

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

April 5

Howard Hughes (1905 – 1976) flying over Manhattan

1242 – During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.

1792 – President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

1879 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.

1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.

1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates” by U.S. citizens.

1943 – World War II: US Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.

1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow “temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory”.

1951 – Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.

1991 – An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.

1992 – Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.

2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

Births

1549 – Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (d. 1597)

1622 – Vincenzo Viviani, mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1703)

1869 – Sergey Chaplygin, physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1942)

1900 – Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, and photographer (d. 1985)

1900 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)

1916 – Gregory Peck, American actor, political activist, and producer (d. 2003)

1934 – Moise Safra, Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Banco Safra (d. 2014)

1934 – Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2000)

1937 – Colin Powell, general and politician, 65th US Secretary of State (d. 2021)

Deaths

1697 – Charles XI, king of Sweden (b. 1655)

1948 – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, socialite and philanthropist (b. 1874)

1964 – James Chapin, American ornithologist (b. 1889)

1964 – Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)

1975 – Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)

1976 – Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (b. 1905)

1992 – Sam Walton, businessman, founded Walmart and Sam’s Club (b. 1918)

1994 – Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)

1997 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)

2005 – Saul Bellow, novelist, essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

2014 – Peter Matthiessen, novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (b. 1927)

Credit: Edited from various sources including historyorb.com, the NYTimes.com and Google searches

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