Category Archives: Real estate

BPCA updates plans for the West Thames turf field project

December 3, 2015- The actual digging has begun. (more…)

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Images of a crashed crane in the heart of Tribeca

February 5, 2016- This is as close as we could get to the crane that collapsed on Worth Street. (more…)

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Neighbors warned Catherine McVay Hughes and her CB1 of swaying Tribeca crane hours before fatal collapse

Update February 11, 2016- The CB1 met last night and discussed crane safety and the numerous (more…)

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BatteryPark.TV helps create 1,180 new rent-stabilized apartments

December 3, 2015- by Steven E. Greer BatteryPark.TV was the first news source Downtown to report on how many of the so-called (more…)

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Review: Evacuation Day Plaza

February 11, 2016- Two eccentric FiDi businessmen, James Kaplan and Arthur Piccolo, succeeded in achieving a bizarre (more…)

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Landlords manipulate rental market, prop up fake high rates with freebies

February 11, 2016- A local source reports, “Last month’s rental market in Manhattan was one of the (more…)

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The city is cracking down on slumlords and real estate crooks.

February 11, 2016- The city is cracking down on slumlords and real estate crooks. (more…)

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BPC has a second dog sewer slash sidewalk for humans

February 10, 2016- I have noticed that many dog owners in the Milstein building that holds (more…)

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BPCA shutters the Parks Conservancy

January 29, 2016- by Steven E. Greer During the January 27th BPCA board meeting, the annual report was discussed and approved. (more…)

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Governors Island to be developed into a tech innovation hub

February 5, 2016- Don’t hold your breath, but Mayor de Blasio has a pie-in-the-sky idea to develop Governors Island. Gotham reports, “Governors Island will be the site of a sweeping economic (more…)

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Images of a closed down PEP office

February 2, 2016- Not only are the PEP gone, but this entire space is being closed down. the BPCA (more…)

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Liberty Street pedestrian bridge opens

January 31, 2016 (more…)

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Angry pitchfork mob demands the ouster of BPCA Chairman Dennis Mehiel

December 16, 2015- by Steven E. Greer The BPCA hosted a rare Town Hall meeting tonight, and surprisingly, all of the top executives (more…)

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Review: One World Observatory is a horrible experience

January 27, 2016- by Steven E. Greer I visited the One World Observatory last night for the CB1 meeting. It was (more…)

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Playing Robin Hood: Cuomo and De Blasio fight over how to spend your tax dollars outside of BPC

January 27, 2016- Playing Robin Hood, Governor Cuomo and Comptroller Stringer have ganged (more…)

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Conrad Hilton ordered into drug treatment

January 27, 2016- After Paris Hilton ruined the brand with her amateur porn tapes and jail time, (more…)

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Excellent snow removal

January 24, 2016- The private sector (Brookfield and Goldman) and the BPCA have done an excellent (more…)

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The 421-a heroin really did stop flowing

January 25, 2016- by Steven E. Greer BatteryPark.TV has extensively reported on the 421-a real estate tax break law that was forest (more…)

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Pencil-tower backlash

January 25, 2016- Bloomberg reports that expiring laws and local backlash are jeopardizing (more…)

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Ugliest building in Lower Manhattan gets windows

January 21, 2016- This building is being converted into an office building, (more…)

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