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Should kayakers blow whistles when they leave port?

August 29, 2013- By Steven E. Greer BatteryPark.TV previously reported how kayak activists complained to the Coast Guard about theoretical safety issues with larger passenger ferries causing the Coast Guard to enforce old rules about sounding horns when docking. The … Continue reading

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Banksy’s Grim Reaper

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Another CBS show films at North Cove Marina

October 16, 2013- The CBS drama “person of Interest” filmed extensively at the North Cove Marina. (more…)

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Great Halloween costume

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Chocolate skulls galore

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Route 66 BBQ opens in FiDi

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The end of sailing season

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First Precinct Community Affairs meeting: CO clarifies BS story, bike gangs, and courts

October 24, 2013- By Steven E. Greer The monthly meeting of the First Precinct Community Affairs took place a week early to avoid conflicts with Halloween. District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. gave a talk about the agenda for his office … Continue reading

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BPCA hires staffer away from current auditor company

October 26, 2013- By Steven E. Greer In yet another questionable move, The Battery Park City Authority’s (BPCA) Chairman/CEO, Dennis Mehiel, hired a staffer as a full-time in-house BPCA employee even though the staffer creates a conflict of interest. Daniel … Continue reading

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Architectural icons then and now: Woolworth and Gehry buildings

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Broadsheet, absent throughout Hurricane Sandy, posts self-congratulatory letter

November 16, 2012 The publisher of the local advertising flier The Broadsheet, Robert Simko, and his employee “Pulitzer” Matt Fenton, were both silent throughout the Hurricane Sandy aftermath, publishing nothing for days on end. Therefore, we find it quite offensive … Continue reading

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Interactive map of the Sandy flooding

The NYT has this interactive map of the flooding we experienced after the storm. (more…)

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Egregious service by Verizon in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

October 31, 2012 The Verizon land line phones are still down, astonishingly. Since they use the same lines as the Fios Internet and TV, this is clearly a human error. The headquarters for Verizon is less than a mile away … Continue reading

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Images from the top of 4 WTC

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Another bicycle gang violently assaults a random pedestrian

Update September 23, 2013- A gang of young males on bicycles, matching the description and using the similar methods of the September 11th case, below, violently attacked a Columbia professor. They seem to have chosen the victim for no apparent … Continue reading

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Exclusive: BPCA hired employment lawyer to investigate complaints by employees

August 21, 2013- BatteryPark.TV exclusively reported on August 12th that an investigation was underway at the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) stemming from employee complaints about the President, Demetri Boutris, and other executives, being abusive to staff and making wrongful … Continue reading

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Huge news for Tribeca: Citigroup to stay at Greenwich Street tower

October 24, 2013- The WSJ is reporting that Citigroup will decide t renew the lease at the Greenwich Street headquarters rather than move to Midtown as Merrill Lynch did. If Citi had left, Tribeca restaurants and and the apartment market … Continue reading

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Governor Cuomo’s anticorruption commission investigates Sheldon Silver scandals

September 26, 2013- The Columbia University journalism school news venue published an essay about Sheldon Silver hiding under his desk in the wake of scandals, “As I prepared this column, it suddenly occurred to me that Silver was noticeably absent … Continue reading

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Bob Townley makes a play for the Stuyvesant Community Center

October 25, 2013- By Steven E. Greer At the CB1 meeting on October 22nd, during the public speaking portion, staffers for City Council member Deborah Glick, and State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, spoke to protest the planned closure of the … Continue reading

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First Precinct clarifies sensational BS reporting on child abductor

Update October 24, 2013- The monthly meeting of the First Precinct Community Affairs took place tonight. Commander Timoney explained that the reports in the Broadsheet (BS) of a child predator caught on the ballfields were misleading. He described the man … Continue reading

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