Category Archives: – Politics

Review: The Swedish Midsummer Festival is an overcrowded deathtrap

June 19, 2015- By Steven E. Greer, MD I have now witnessed two or three of these summer solstice celebratory Swedish Midsummer (more…)

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CB1 passes resolution banning tourist helicopters from Seaport

The StoptheChop people (a website we helped create) sent this out: Dear friends and members, (more…)

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Senator Schumer kicks ass on our behalf again

June 27, 2015- By Steven E. Greer Earlier this year, my apartment building was having a critical problem with very delayed deliver (more…)

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Nobody is listening to Catherine McVay Hughes’ CB1 anymore

April 9, 2015- Opinion by By Steven E. Greer Several years ago, the Tribeca subcommittee of CB1 protested over the design of a Pier 26 restaurant being (more…)

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Gone in 60 Seconds: S7:E5

June 26, 2015 (more…)

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NYPD reports no gun-related crime Downtown since 2013

June 27, 2015- DNAinfo reports, “While the number of shooting victims have gone up (more…)

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NY Supreme Court rules that yelling obscenities at police is not illegal

June 27, 2015- In 2011, Richard Gonzalez yelled obscenities at NYPD in a subway station. They (more…)

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Exclusive: ConEd gas inspectors allegedly shakedown new restaurants

June 26, 2015- By Steve E. Greer With the delay of the new Parm restaurant on Vesey Street being caused by ConEd not giving (more…)

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The BPCA’s in-house lawyer Alix Pustilnik tries unsuccessfully to have Chairman Mehiel “admonish” us

March 7, 2015- During the January BPCA board meeting that resulted in the eviction of Mike Fortenbaugh (more…)

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Welfare to real estate billionaires, the 421-a law, extended for four years

Update June 24, 2015- As a compromise, the 421-a law was extended for four years. The tax-breaks to the fat (more…)

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Broadsheet omits key fact from story on changes to park rules

June 23, 2015- By Steven E. Greer The local advertising flier called the Broadsheet (BS) misled the community, once again, with (more…)

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Gone in 60 Seconds: S7:E4

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City EDC finally admits that it is secretly planning to destroy historic Seaport buildings

June 20, 2015- We previously reported how “no one is listening to Catherine McVay Hughes’ CB1 anymore”. (more…)

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Brookfield wants to bring booze-cruise party boats to the marina

May 6, 2015- By Steven E. Greer At the CB1 meeting last night, Brookfield Properties, the new operator of the North Cove Marina, (more…)

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Letter: The Police memorial is still out of order and a disgrace

May 7, 2015- Letter to the Editor by (name withheld) Dear Battery Park TV: The Police Memorial located at Liberty Street and South End Avenue in Battery Park City (more…)

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After 18-months of stalled progress, Howard Hughes agrees to change Seaport tower design

June 20, 2015- Downtown express reports, “Howard Hughes is reducing the proposed size (more…)

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NY AG charges slumlord for pushing out rent-regulated tenants

June 17, 2015- Observer reports, “Daniel Melamed, a Long Island resident who owns several buildings in Brooklyn, (more…)

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Broadsheet spins the Jeff Galloway conviction

June 8, 2015- Opinion by Steven E. Greer The local advertising flier called Broadsheet (BS) has been criticized by BatteryPark.TV over (more…)

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Brookfield Property senior executive to run Downtown Alliance

June 14, 2015- By Steven E. Greer The secretive Alliance for Downtown announced that the new Chairman is Dennis Friedrich, (more…)

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Another suicide in BPC

May 28, 2015- There have been several bodies pulled from Hudson offshore of BPC’s esplanade, as (more…)

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