Category Archives: – Politics

Exclusive: Terms of the AlliedBarton-BPCA contract

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Editor

January 10, 2016- by Steven E. Greer (Apparently, the only journalist covering Downtown) We have obtained via FOIL the contract recently executed by the BPCA to purchase private (more…)

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Lawsuit exposes how modeling agencies rip-off young girls

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Editor

February 21, 2016– by Steven E. Greer I am a crusader for the rights of fashion models. (more…)

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More proof that the BPC Parks Conservancy is dead

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Editor

February 18, 2016- by Steven E. Greer We previously reported how the BPCA is secretly shuttering the legally protected BPC Parks (more…)

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Convicted felon Jeff Galloway stages a comeback

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Editor

December 17, 2015- by Steven E. Greer If the mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut can be re-elected after serving seven years in prison (more…)

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Police catch perp who cracked tourist’s skull in The Battery

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Editor

February 17, 2016- The Post reports that the perp who cracked the skull of a tourist in (more…)

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BPCA ousts head of parks programming?

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Editor

February 4, 2016- by Steven E. Greer We have previous been critical of the lame programming decisions by the BPC Parks Conservancy. (more…)

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NYC not doing enough to combat illegal vendors in The Battery, cruise company official says

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Editor

Tourist Jeff White was attacked by career criminals in The Battery, suffering a fractured skull February 19, 2016- The local “newspapers” are in bed with the establishment city and have not been reporting (more…)

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Specter of corruption hangs over special elections to replace Sheldon Silver

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Editor

February 19, 2016- The NYT reports, “From the day the men were convicted on corruption charges and (more…)

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Preet Bharara should run the DOJ after Loretta Lynch is appointed to the SCOTUS

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Editor

February 15, 2016- by Steven E. Greer, MD With the death of Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Justice Antonin Scalia, The White House and Senate (more…)

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Eliot’s escorts

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Editor

(Left: Ashley Alexandra Dupré in 2008, Right: Svetlana Zakharova Travis 2016) February 16, 2016- Disgraced former governor, Eliot Spitzer, who was brought down by an escort (more…)

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Lester Chang, Republican candidate to replace Sheldon Silver, featured

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Editor

February 17, 2016- DNAinfo featured Lester Chang, the GOP’s choice to replace Sheldon Silver (more…)

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BatteryPark.TV supports raising the minimum wage

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Editor

July 23, 2015- Governor Cuomo has moved to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. (more…)

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“People knew, and did nothing,”

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Editor

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

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Editor

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

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Editor

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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Will Goldman Sachs cost Hillary Clinton the presidency?

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Editor

February 14, 2016- by Steven E. Greer First, Bernie Sanders singled out by name Goldman Sachs as being the face of “Wall Street fraud”, (more…)

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Local lawyer wins important case against the city

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Editor

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

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Editor

(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

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Editor

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

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Exclusive: State agencies investigate possible illegal shuttering of BPC Parks Conservancy

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Editor

Update February 6, 2016- The AG replied and is working on this. (more…)

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