The BroadsheetDAILY ~ News of Lower Manhattan ~ 9/18/19

A Guardian of Local Children Falls

Esteemed Lower Manhattan School Safety Officer Victim of Murder-Suicide

Naire McCormick, who served for years as the School Safety Agent at Millennium High School, in the Financial District

A protector and defender of Lower Manhattan school children is gone. Naire McCormick, who has served as the uniformed School Safety Agent at Millennium High School in the Financial District for the past four years, died on Sunday evening, the victim of an apparent murder-suicide in Brooklyn.

Police investigators believe that her boyfriend, Jancy Dempster, showed up at Ms. McCormick’s apartment in the Fort Greene section on Brooklyn on Sunday evening, to celebrate his birthday. As the night progressed, however, police believe he became intoxicated and turned belligerent. Sometime shortly after 11:00 pm, detectives allege, he fired a gun into Ms. McCormick’s head, killing her, and then turned the weapon on himself.

	Ms. McCormick and her 12-year-old son, Scott, who is now an orphan

Her 12-year-old son, Scott, was sleeping in an adjacent room when this transpired, police say. Hearing gunshots and confronted by carnage, he fled the apartment, and was a few minutes later met outside the building by police officers, responding to multiple 911 calls about gunfire.

Scott has now been placed with an aunt and uncle, his only remaining close relatives. Friends and admirers of Ms. McCormick (including many Millennium High School parents, who feel indebted to the officer who protected their children) have set up a GoFundMe page to help provide for the orphaned child. (For more information, or to make a donation, please browse: www.gofundme.com/f/scottiem)

The scene on Sunday evening outside the Brooklyn apartment building where Ms. McCormick and Scott resided

Ms. McCormick, aged 44, had served with the School Safety service (a division of the New York Police Department) for 15 years. In a tearful ceremony at Millennium on Tuesday morning, she was remembered for her optimism and the protective instinct she brought to the school, where she had guarded the entrance each day since 2015. (Twice in recent years, she was called upon to lock down the facility on a moment’s notice: In April, 2017, when a dispute among ticket vendors led to a shooting a few blocks from the school’s front door, and again in October of that year, when the truck attack on the West Side Highway resulted in eight deaths.) But she was also remembered for the personal connection she fostered with many students at the school, attending each year’s prom, and sometimes dispensing expert fashion advice to Millennium’s young women. (In her spare time, Ms. McCormick supplemented her income by working as a model.)

“The whole school is really sad and devastated,” reflected Millennium senior Jamie Morrison. “Miss McCormick always said ‘good morning’ to every student when we entered the school in the morning. She had so much positive energy. It was so nice to start the school day that way. All the students loved her. It’s going to be real hard passing the security desk every morning without seeing and hearing her. I can’t believe something so tragic can happen to someone so special.”

Millennium parent Scott Morrison, added, “she always remembered my name, even though only entered the building only four time a year. This is a horrific and very sad situation.”

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Study Predicts 300 Fewer Vehicles Per Day on Local Streets If Verrazzano Toll Changes

	The Verrazzano Bridge is located more than eight miles from Lower Manhattan, but a new study indicates that tolling patterns there have a significant impact on traffic congestion here.

A new analysis commissioned by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority  has quantified the possible impact on Lower Manhattan traffic of a proposal being spearheaded by Congressman Jerry Nadler and City Council member Margaret Chin to reform tolling policy on that span, which connects Brooklyn with Staten Island.

Although Verrazzano is eight miles away from Lower Manhattan, its toll regimen is a significant contributor to Downtown traffic patterns.

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September 16 – 29, 2019

As the Sun’s arc shortens in the skies of Earth’s northern hemisphere, we approach equal day and night.

Soon after the autumnal equinox, which occurs on September 23 this year, darkness expands over daylight. We will see more of the distant stars in our galaxy than our own star, the Sun.

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Many ships pass Lower Manhattan on their way to and from the Midtown Passenger Ship Terminal.  Others may be seen on their way to or from piers in Brooklyn and Bayonne.  Stated times, when appropriate, are for passing the Colgate clock in Jersey City, New Jersey, and are based on sighting histories, published schedules and intuition. They are also subject to tides, fog, winds, freak waves, hurricanes and the whims of upper management.

City Transportation Study Finds That Lower Manhattan Bus Service Is Among Most Sluggish in Five Boroughs

	Bus speeds in Lower Manhattan average below eight miles per hour

The annual New York City Mobility Report, produced by the City’s Department of Transportation, contains two data points that will come as no surprise residents of Lower Manhattan. The first of these is that the median speed for Downtown bus service ranks among the slowest of any community in the five boroughs. And the second is that this creeping pace is, if anything, getting creepier. To read more…

Residents and Local Leaders Recall 18 Septembers Ago

Firemen at Liberty Street and South End Avenue  on September 11, 2001.  photo: Robert Simko

A panel of residents and local leaders participated in a panel discussion at the South Street Seaport, hosted by the Howard Hughes Corporation and moderated by CNBC’s Contessa Brewer, who lives in Lower Manhattan.