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Letter: BPCA is a Greek fiefdom
I think that nobody is happy with this ongoing process within the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). They fire people making below $50,000, but then they re-hire for the same position people with little different title but with double the … Continue reading
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A new Olympic sport: Slush puddle jumping
February 14, 2-14- With hundreds of millions of dollars in surplus budget, the BPCA cannot plow the streets or eliminate street slush puddles the size of Lake Erie. (more…)
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Port Authority cop makes first arrest in 14-years on Vesey Street
February 13, 2014- The Post reports, “Port Authority top cop Joseph Dunne hadn’t made an arrest in 14 years — but the old reflexes kicked in at West and Vesey streets Tuesday when a woman in distress pointed out a … Continue reading
Hate crime “Knockout” punch kills man
February 11, 2014- The Post reports on the prosecution of a man who murdered another man after he randomly punched him in the head. The “knockout” epidemic has made the news, but few realize the seriousness of those assaults. (more…)
NYPD Commissioner Bratton begins shakeup of top brass
February 11, 2014- DNAinfo reports, “The NYPD shakeup has started. The Chief of Detectives and the head of Internal Affairs are being replaced…..The commissioner told Philip Pulaski, the hard-charging three star chief in charge of the city’s detective bureau, and … Continue reading
The reason deadly cab drivers keep their TLC licenses
February 10, 2014- The WSJ reports that New York State and City have very narrow definitions of vehicular homicide, including only people driving while drink or on drugs. Therefore, many dangerous drivers with past histories of deadly crashes continue to … Continue reading
City builds architectural wonder of road salt shed on Canal and West Side Highway
February 9 2014- Curbed reports, “Years in the making, the Canal Street Garbage Garage—Tribeca’s much maligned new building/garbage truck garage—is almost completed. Now, the similarly controversial Spring Street Salt Shed is now set to rise just south of the garage.” … Continue reading
Ralph Lauren botches another Olympic with bad taste
January 26, 2014- Recall, for the 2012 summer Olympics, designer Ralph Lauren was criticized for having his Olympic team uniforms manufactured in China. Somehow, he got the contract again for the 2014 Olympics. This time, he learned his lesson, and … Continue reading
Rep. Nadler reaches out to Coast Guard about ferry boat noise
February 4, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD At the Battery Park City subcommittee of the CB1 tonight, at the very end, the most important news of the entire meetings was whispered out by George Calderaro. BatteryPark.TV asked him to … Continue reading
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Mayor de Blasio’s social equality platform: A fascinating experiment
January 22, 2013- By Steven E. Greer We are witnessing a fascinating political science experiment unfold in New York City. Mayor Bill de Blasio won the office by tapping into the protest vote. Millions of New Yorkers had become disaffected … Continue reading
This is why sidewalk food vendors are a scourge to communities
February 7, 2014- The Post reports on a sidewalk hotdog vendor who flaunted the city health code and accrued $330,000 in unpaid fines. He used fake ID’s to get new licenses, etc. This is not a rare outlier. Many of … Continue reading
Gristedes to be inspected by the state again
February, 3, 2014- In response to reports of ongoing frozen food and produce quality problems, the New York State Agriculture Department (which oversees grocery stores) will “…conduct a full sanitary inspection of this firm promptly”. The frozen foods are melting, … Continue reading
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It just became more difficult to use a non-profit for personal gain in New York
January 12, 2014- By Steven E. Greer There are certain templates for corruption commonly used by schmucks in New York. As previously reported, one of them is to form a “community center”. The awarding of construction and other operational contracts … Continue reading
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Exclusive: Bob Townley and Sheldon Silver’s push to take over Stuyvesant Community Center has stalled
February 5, 2014- By Steven E. Greer BP.TV has learned that the “Kabuki Theater” produced by Sheldon Silver’s office and Bob Townley’s Manhattan Youth community center, which expressed “outrage” over the closure of the Stuyvesant Community Center, has gone silent. … Continue reading
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City’s workers paid nearly twice salary of private sector: report
February 6, 2014- BP.TV previously reported that the salaries of BPCA staff rivaled those of Harvard grads. The Post reports today, “Municipal workers made nearly twice as much as their counterparts in the private sector in former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s … Continue reading
CB1 allows unofficial group of homeowners to speak for all of BPC owners with bogus “resolution”
February 5, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Pat Smith, local Battery Park City (BPC) resident since 2003, spoke before the February 4th CB1 board representing an unofficial group of homeowners calling themselves the BPC Homeowners Coalition. The coalition is … Continue reading
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BPCA promises action on unsafe street crossing at PS 276
February 4, 2014- By Steven E. Greer At the CB1 meeting tonight, at the end of the meeting as “new business”, the topic of the recent accidents in front of PS 276 on Battery Place were discussed. In the audience … Continue reading
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PEP Captain Falcon denies reassigning his PEP to other parks
February 5, 2014- At the CB1 meeting held in the public library on February 4th, BP.TV asked the Park Enforcement Patrol Captain, Ed Falcon, to address our reporting that uncovered his officers were being reassigned to other parks, despite the … Continue reading
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Noise tops New Yorkers’ quality-of-life complaints
January 20, 2014- The Post reports, “Screeching subway trains, honking cars, roaring planes, barking dogs and boisterous people make noise the Big Apple’s No. 1 quality-of-life complaint. A city hotline got more than 260,000 noise complaints last year. Silence, it … Continue reading
Told you so, The Super Bowl sucketh on a grand scale
February 3, 2014- The day before the Super Bowl, we wrote the essay “Why Super Bowl 48 will suck“, pointing out the ill-conceived plans to send 90,000 fans from Manhattan to New Jersey via public transportation. We were correct. The … Continue reading