Category Archives: Real estate

Another Brookfield Place shop bites the dust: Scoop

Update June 13, 2016- Scoops has closed (more…)

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Video of the underground walk from Fulton Street to WFC

June 8, 2016 (more…)

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Slumlords brazenly discuss strategies to evict rent-stabilized tenants

June 3, 2016- Gothamist reports, “On Wednesday, a flock of these apparatchiks looking to further despoil Brooklyn (more…)

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BPC has the best outdoor dining in NYC

Update June 6, 2016- Amada’s outdoor seating continues to humiliate Parm next door. (more…)

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56 Leonard: The Jenga building

June 4, 2016 (more…)

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Port Authority wants to put the 9/11 battered globe statue in Liberty Park

May 31, 2016- CB1 members are saying that the Port Authority wants to pace the battered 9/11 globe in (more…)

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Images from Tear Drop Park 2015

June 6, 2015 (more…)

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Port Authority decisions make the 1 WTC observatory a failure

May 29, 2016- The NYT has a lengthy article about the failure of the 1 WTC observatory and 9/11 memorial. (more…)

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Military statue installed at Liberty Park

May 25, 2016 (more…)

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Liberty Park close to completion

May 18, 2016- A viewer sent us these. (more…)

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Another Brookfield Place shop closes: Satya jewelry on the second floor

May 25, 2016- Satya jewelry on the second floor of Brookfield Place by the Equinox gym, is the latest retailer (more…)

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Letter: Why is the HRPT allowing Pier-26 to turn into an eyesore?

May 21, 2016- Letter to the Editor: I’m a West Side resident and I commute daily to lower Manhattan by bike using the Hudson (more…)

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The Douglas Elliman letter to Milstein buildings

May 21, 2016- BatteryPark.TV previously reported on Howard Milstein’s loss of control over the three (more…)

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It’s official. Canadians have stolen the public park North Cove Marina from you.

Update May 23, 2016- The CB1 discussed the new policy that makes the docks off-limits. Members (more…)

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The Greer Grove on Vesey Street

Update May 19, 2016- The Greer Grove of honey locusts, planted last fall, have lived and are g (more…)

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Is this WSJ article on Tribeca reverse racist?

May 21, 2016- Read this section from a WSJ article on how gentrification is hurting New York. Then, I have some questions for you. (more…)

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More Tribeca Trust activism: a New Orleans jazz funeral to mourn the loss of historic buildings

May 17, 2016- The Tribeca Trust is gaining momentum. This time, they staged a New Orleans jazz funeral to mourn (more…)

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Retail rents getting marked down as everyone buys online

May 16, 2016- The Post confirms what BatteryPark.TV has been reporting for nearly a year: (more…)

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Told you so. J&R by City Hall is closing

Update May 14, 2016- Two years later, the space sits empty. The real estate families are asking too much and Manhattan is becoming a city of empty storefronts.  (more…)

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Higher fencing goes up on West Thames turf field

May 14, 2016 (more…)

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