Category Archives: Real estate

Fancy building loses battle to remove Citi Bike rack

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Editor

August 5, 2015- Crain’s is reporting, “An appeals court has turned down The Plaza’s bid to get rid of a bicycle-sharing rack from a space across from the landmark hotel’s entrance. (more…)

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Review: Governor’s Island is a miserable experience from start to finish

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Editor

May 26, 2014- By Steven E. Greer I spent a few hours touring the new Governor’s Island. It was a miserable, exhausting, and boring experience. (more…)

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Miami Beach, Dubai, are also “landfills” like BPC

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Editor

June 29, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD The biggest misconception about Battery Park City (more…)

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Construction in New York City Goes Through The Roof

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Editor

July 30, 2015- As more evidence of the impending housing bubble soon to burst once Janet Yellen (more…)

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Cheap oil threatens Brookfield Property Partners

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Editor

Update July 31, 2015- The low oil is impacting the cities where the oil companies preside, (more…)

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Photos 7-25-2015

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Editor

July 25, 2015 (more…)

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Tessa Huxley’s gardeners allow every ilex shrub to die

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Editor

May 13, 2015- BatteryPark.TV has previously pointed out the deteriorating conditions of the greenery (more…)

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West Thames Park grass field not opened, committee decides usage rules

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Editor

Update: August 2, 2011 In what exemplifies the disconnect between the bureaucrats governing lower Manhattan and the (more…)

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Low demand for new condos

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Editor

July 21, 2015- We have previously reported how the majority of owners of new condo units (more…)

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WTC Performing Arts Center still lacks funding to proceed

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Editor

Update July 24, 2015- The LMDC, the piggy bank for this project, is not going to release any funds (more…)

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Massive condo to go up on the West Side Highway in the flood zone

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Editor

July 20, 2015- When the people who owned Ponte’s restaurant on the West Side Highway (more…)

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Minutes of the BPC CB1 meeting for July

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Editor

July 7, 2015- By Steven E. Greer The monthly BPC CB1 meeting was uneventful and poorly attended, by design, since they relocated (more…)

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No activity in the new “sailing school”

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Editor

July 1, 2015- By Steven E. Greer The new “sailing school” that has supposedly replaced Mike Fortenbaugh’s is getting (more…)

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Timur Galen, head of Goldman Sachs real estate, leaves the firm

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Editor

July 9, 2015- By Steven E. Greer The man who ran all of the office buildings and real estate assets for Goldman Sachs, Timur Galen, (more…)

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Exclusive video of yacht Boardwalk’s helicopter taking off

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Editor

June 17, 2015- By Steven E. Greer A viewer sent us this video of the June 11th flight of the controversial helicopter attached with (more…)

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And then there were none: St John’s all gone

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Editor

June 19, 2015- The ground has been cleared to make way for “111 Murray“. The old St. John’s school (more…)

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Weeds be gone

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Editor

Update June 20, 2015- The weeds are gone, in no small part due to BatteryPark.TV. However, (more…)

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Review: The Swedish Midsummer Festival is an overcrowded deathtrap

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Editor

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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Gone in 60 Seconds: S7:E5

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Editor

June 26, 2015 (more…)

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Parm opens Monday, for sure

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Editor

Update June 25, 2015- Parm opens Monday, for sure.  (more…)

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