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Comparing radiation leaks from major nuclear events
March 15, 2011 Now that the multiple nuclear reactors in Japan are in meltdown, possibly on the scale of Chernobyl in 1986, the key safety questions are “How will this radiation accident compare to other previously documented events, such as … Continue reading
PEPs routinely illegally parking personal cars
Update March 10, 2011 BatteryPark.TV reported on the problem of PEP officers parking illegally in bus stops, etc, and avoiding city parking tickets by placing official-looking parks badges in their personal car windows. A local paper is now reporting that … Continue reading
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Battery Park City park rangers assault BPC resident
January 29, 2011 At approximately 12:00 PM on January 29th, 20011, according to eyewitness Theresa Shabbos who lives one floor above 2 South End Avenue, local resident Adam Pratt was walking his small dog and arrived at the southeast corner … Continue reading
Busted: Snow plow operators sitting idle
Update: January 3, 2011 The New York Post is now reporting that the sanitation department bosses were not only shirking their duties after the blizzard, but bought beer and got drunk in their cars and trucks. December 31, 2010 After … Continue reading
Misguided Gothamist article critical of the NYPD dealing with skateboarders
December 26, 2010 The Gothamist is an online blog about New York City news and events. They quite often have good posts. However, we noted one recent post that was misguided, and unfortunately represents the views of many. The Gothamist … Continue reading
Tire Swing Park: The victim of two feuding bureaucracies
Update: November 18, 2010 The CYA strategy to cover up the embarrassment of Tire Swing Park The newly-sodded grass playing field north of the new Tire Swing Park has been allowed to become a mud field due to bureaucratic feuding … Continue reading
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National Night Out with Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner Kelly, Commander Winsky
August 3, 2010 The NYPD hosted community outreach events with the focus on reducing crime. The First Precinct held their rally by the North Cove Marina. Mayor Bloomberg made a brief appearance. Police Commissioner Kelly spoke, and the new First … Continue reading
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Skateboarders assault food vendor near the Ritz Carleton in Battery Park City
October 2, 2010 On Saturday, October 2, approximately 20 skateboarders, many from Brooklyn, were performing jumps, damaging the granite benches and walkway in front of 17 Battery Place. Across the street is the family tourist area of Battery Park, Statue … Continue reading
Tire Swing Park Ribbon Cutting
Update September 4, 2017- I am going back to the oldest stories on BPTV and reminiscing. (more…)
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The new Tire Swing Pork Park
May 8, 2010 The old “Tire Swing Park” was bulldozed last year over the protests of many families in Battery Park City. It was a park design with natural materials such as wood, sand, grass, etc. Families loved it because … Continue reading
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St Vincent’s hospital closure: The first of many across the country?
April 7, 2010 St. Vincent’s hospital in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, is closing due to mounting debt and New York State cuts in funding. St. Vincent’s is the last tertiary care catholic hospital in the city. How can a business entity … Continue reading
Use medical device technology to seal the Gulf oil leak
May 16, 2010 It is now painfully obvious that the team of “expert engineers” working on ad hoc solutions to seal the oil-spewing pipe at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is incompetent. Saturday Night Live lampooned them on … Continue reading
Coalition to save Tire Swing Park
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Battery Pork City
April 13, 2009 The New York Post writes about the corruption scandal of the BPCA (more…)
Legal Professor Randy Barnett: the constitutional challenges to the healthcare reform law
April 20, 2010 The new healthcare reform law will impact local hospitals and state budgets as the number of Medicaid patients increase. The plan to close St. Vincent’s is related to Medicaid issues. Healthcare systems in states across the country … Continue reading
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More bad PR for Goldman Sachs
March 15, 2010 On March 14, 60 Minutes featured the author Michael Lewis and his new book about the collapse of Wall Street due to the subprime mortgage debacle. The video replay can be found here. In the story, the … Continue reading
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BPC Meeting to discuss Tire Swing Park
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The “Botax” and mammogram guidelines
Dr. Jennifer Walden, one of the leading plastic and reconstructive surgeons in New York, discusses her opposition to the “Botax” tax on cosmetic plastic surgery proposed in the Senate healthcare reform bill. She also addresses the controversial recent AHRQ guidelines … Continue reading
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The Sound and the Fury
On the evening of November 9th, at the corner of Battery Place and West Thames, construction crew began to jackhammer up a ditch in the road related to Con Edison gas lines. The work was non-emergent. The crew foreman claimed … Continue reading
The USS New York leaving port
The USS New York is the fifth ship in the LPD 17 San Antonio class of amphibious transport dock ships. The USS NEW YORK (LPD 21), built with 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center in her bow, … Continue reading