Discovery. Comet Swift-Tuttle was discovered in 1862 independently by both Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle. Overview. Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle takes 133 years to orbit the Sun once.

5 days ago · Lower Manhattan Newspaper. Visionary Who Brought Blooming, Buzzing Profusion to Battery Park City Passes from the Scene

May 23, 2024 · Community Board Calls for Numerous Carveouts in Adams Plan for Economic Growth. As the year-long campaign by the administration of Mayor Eric Adams to ratify its City of Yes for Economic Opportunity initiative nears conclusion (with a City Council vote likely in early June), its possible impact on Lower Manhattan is worth considering.

Jan 7, 2025 · Eleventh-Hour Deal Scuttles Federal Funding for WTC Health Program. A last-minute change to the federal spending bill that kept the government from shutting down in late December dropped proposed funding for the World Trade Center Health Program (which serves people made sick by toxic debris from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001) that had previously been agreed upon by a bi-partisan ...

Broken Chains and Remote Work Raise Worries about Who’s Minding the Store in Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is experiencing a case of emporia dysphoria according to multiple new analyses of the local business landscape. A new report from the Center for an Urban Future (CUF), a public policy think ...

Feb 4, 2025 · New Partnership Aims to Rehabilitate Deteriorating African Burial Ground Monument. As Black History Month begins, Congressman Dan Goldman has helped broker a partnership between Lower Manhattan’s African Burial Ground National Monument – the Lower Manhattan site that holds the remains of an estimated 15,000 African-Americans from the colonial era (both free and enslaved) – and the newly ...

Jan 31, 2025 · Local Schools Panel Rejects Push to Offer Elite Admissions Exam in Multiple Languages. The Community Education Council (CEC) for District 2 of the New York City public school system has voted to reject a proposal that would have called upon the City’s Department of Education (DOE) to offer the specialized high school admissions test …

Federal Program Announces Grant for Next Phase of Gotham Park. The departing administration of President Joe Biden is delivering a gift to what is shaping up to Lower Manhattan’s next great public space.

THE BROADSHEET The Broadsheet has been Lower Manhattan’s most-trusted residential newspaper since 1997. Sized at 15 x 223/ 4 inches, the Broadsheet is slightly longer and wider than The New York Times. It is printed every two weeks on each new moon and full moon, and distributed into more than 100 residential buildings, schools, community centers, libraries, and …

Sep 29, 2024 · Law Passes to Create Trail of Historical Markers Related to Slavery. On September 12, the City Council unanimously voted to ratify the Road to Freedom Act, a bill sponsored by member Christopher Marte that will impanel a 13-member task force of government officials and academic experts to plan an urban historical trail in Lower Manhattan (and beyond) to raise awareness about the role New York ...