Category Archives: City government

“People knew, and did nothing,”

January 7, 2016- by Steven E. Greer New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was speaking before the Kentucky State Legislature (more…)

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Tourist suffers fractured skull in The Battery as PEP are nowhere to be found

February 16, 2016- It has happened again in The Battery. The park, which is patrolled by city (more…)

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Task force forms to address tourist harassment in The Battery

February 16, 2016- In response to the out-of-control violent crime being perpetrated by career criminals near the Staten Island Ferry in The Battery, a Staten Island Democrat is (more…)

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Local lawyer wins important case against the city

February 12, 2016- I had dinner with a local lawyer, Peter Gleason (who is also a former New York firefighter and cop), and was amazed to hear about the racism that exists within the FDNY. (more…)

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Letter to the Editor: Give Peace (and Quiet) A Chance

(3,824 people have read this as of February 15, 2016) August 10, 2015- Letter by John Dellaportas Some 100,000 times per year, tourist helicopters buzz Battery Park City. These flights run all day, (more…)

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Pipes burst at Stuyvesant High School

February 14, 2016- We received this email: (more…)

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Julie Menin to run city’s film permitting office

February 3, 2016- The Post reports that Julie Menin is being shuffled from the Consumer Affair (more…)

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An assault on the freedom of the press by New York politicians

December 28, 2015- by Steven E. Greer There is something very concerning that is developing which has not been well reported in the press. (more…)

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Broadsheet given unprecedented access inside residential building to host a political petition-signing

February 13, 2016- The Broadsheet, which is the mouthpiece of the establishment Democrats in (more…)

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Neighbors warned Catherine McVay Hughes and her CB1 of swaying Tribeca crane hours before fatal collapse

Update February 11, 2016- The CB1 met last night and discussed crane safety and the numerous (more…)

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BatteryPark.TV helps create 1,180 new rent-stabilized apartments

December 3, 2015- by Steven E. Greer BatteryPark.TV was the first news source Downtown to report on how many of the so-called (more…)

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Review: Evacuation Day Plaza

February 11, 2016- Two eccentric FiDi businessmen, James Kaplan and Arthur Piccolo, succeeded in achieving a bizarre (more…)

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The city is cracking down on slumlords and real estate crooks.

February 11, 2016- The city is cracking down on slumlords and real estate crooks. (more…)

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Wife of Sheldon Silver and another convicted felon choose his successor in Assembly

February 8, 2016- BatteryPark.TV warned how sleazy the process of replacing Sheldon Would be, but we had no idea it would be this egregious.  (more…)

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Missing PEP allow woman to Taser man in The Battery

February 7, 2016- The Battery is patrolled by city PEP, like the ones we in BPC just fired. Crime is (more…)

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Governors Island to be developed into a tech innovation hub

February 5, 2016- Don’t hold your breath, but Mayor de Blasio has a pie-in-the-sky idea to develop Governors Island. Gotham reports, “Governors Island will be the site of a sweeping economic (more…)

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Images of a closed down PEP office

February 2, 2016- Not only are the PEP gone, but this entire space is being closed down. the BPCA (more…)

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De Blasio’s horse debacle makes history

February 5, 2016- Politico writes, “Capping one of the more bewildering political debacles in recent (more…)

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New private security is already doing a better job than the PEP ever did

January 4, 2016- by Steven E. Greer The City-controlled PEP offices have been refusing to act on calls about pot smokers in the parks. (more…)

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Cuomo gives the middle finger to local city Democrats

February 1, 2016- by Steven E. Greer The bigger story playing out with this PEP-firing is how Governor Como, the man in charge (more…)

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