Category Archives: – Politics

BPCA board member Fernando Mateo gets in trouble at pro-A-Rod rally

Update January 12, 2014- A-Rod was banned for the entire 2014 seasons for using steroids. 60 Minutes interviewed the man who supplied the drugs, allegedly, and claims that A-Rod’s entourage made death threats against him. October 21, 2013- The Post … Continue reading

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BPCA’s Fernando Mateo in the news again for another scandal

Mateo, far right December 23, 2013- The Post reports, “The battle over La Marina has gotten so bizarre that one owner — former taxi bigwig Fernando Mateo — even challenged two of his business partners to a boxing bout to … Continue reading

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More “service animal” scams

January 26, 2014- BP.TV recently reported on the concept of nutjob dog owners pretending to be mentally disabled in order to take own dogs in buildings that forbid dogs. Government bureaucrats are actually enabling this, apparently because it seems like … Continue reading

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Local man convinces the State of New York to sue on his behalf in dog dispute

January 13, 2014- A Battery Park City grandfather, Roman Erikhman, age 76, who lives in the “Cove Club” at 2 South End, was sued in 2012 by his building’s condo board and building manager, Milford Management ( a division of Milstein … Continue reading

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Unplowed streets in South BPC after snowstorm

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Google wants your DNA now

Opinion December 17, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD The Wall Street Journal published an article explaining how the pharmaceutical industry data mines credit card records, Internet traffic patterns, and other personal data on individuals, then forms educated guesses about … Continue reading

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Christie might join a long list of New Jersey officials in prison

Update: January 19, 2014: Now, the Democrat mayor of Hoboken claims that Christie held the federal relief money for Hurricane Sandy victims as hostage, unless she agreed t support a pork project he wanted. Update: January 10, 2014: The Feds … Continue reading

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24-yo man arrested for slugging 74-yo man

January 23, 2014- A local police blotter reports that men impersonating garbage men lured a bar employee of Cricket and Arms outside to remove trash, under threat of writing a citation, then robbed the store while the employee was outside. … Continue reading

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New mayor seems to support Bloomberg’s Citi Bikes

January 19, 2014- The Post reports, “The city Department of Transportation doesn’t want to give up bike-share racks at The Plaza hotel — months after the landmark building filed a lawsuit to get rid of them. The attorney for the … Continue reading

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He’s Baaaack, Randy Mastro hired by Christie

January 16, 2014- Does the name Randy Mastro sound familiar to you? He’s the Big Shot lawyer that the BPCA hired to fight Asphalt Green. When BatteryPark.TV exposed this, the BPCA CEO promptly “resigned”, and Asphalt Green opened. Now, it … Continue reading

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Twitter interview with banned-for-life Wall Street tech analyst Henry Blodget

January 11, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Disgraced Wall Street sell-side technology sector analyst, Henry Blodget, who was banned for life by the SEC from working in Wall Street, is making a comeback in tech by running a news … Continue reading

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Port Authority-run 9/11 Memorial wants cash from new mayor

January 15, 2015- The WSJ reports, “After years of delays, the National September 11 Memorial Museum is set to open this spring, but officials still don’t know where they will find the money to keep it running. The memorial foundation, … Continue reading

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New City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is a multi-millionaire

January 13, 2014- That new City Council Speaker who markets herself as a champion of the 99% poor working class is secretly a multimillionaire. Her father in Puerto Rico was a successful eye doctor and sold a hospital for $165 … Continue reading

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On pace to surpass the 173 pedestrians killed by cars in 2013

January 19, 2014- The Post reports, “Three pedestrians were struck by cars — two fatally — in a spate of Saturday crashes, topping off an already brutal start to the new year on city streets….The accidents put the city on … Continue reading

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NYPD refuses to charge taxi drivers

January 12, 2014- By Steven E. Greer BatteryPark.TV has been the recipient of several assaults by TLC-licensed livery cab drivers over the last several years, as we successfully cleaned up the residential streets that had been serving as parking zones … Continue reading

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NY and NJ waste $65 Million of Hurricane Sandy relief on tourism ads

Update January 13, 2014- In the wake of the bridge scandal and federal investigations, the Feeds have opening up the case of whether relief funds were misused. CNN reports, “Just days after dismissing two top advisers for their roles in … Continue reading

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PS 276 parents want buses allowed to take kids to school

November 22, 2013- Kate Godici, A local mother of kids at at PS 276 sent us this video to help promote her cause of allowing buses to send the kids to school. She wrote, “Hello! I am a mother of … Continue reading

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Exclusive: BPCA pays for park staff reassigned to non-BPC parks

December 2, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD BatteryPark.TV previously reported that the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) contract with the New York City Parks Department pays for a large number of Park Enforcement Patrol (PEP) officers that are not … Continue reading

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Young boy killed by taxi in front of father

January 11, 2014- The Post is reporting that a 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a yellow taxi as the father watched in horror. The two were crossing a residential street on the Upper West Side. This same type … Continue reading

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Gang with knives beat, rob two people Downtown

January 10, 2014- DNAinfo reports, “A trio of armed robbers struck Lower Manhattan in back-to-back attacks last week, threatening a man with a knife near Pace University and then beating a woman to the ground in TriBeCa shortly afterward, police … Continue reading

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