Leo Di Caprio buys neighbors, doubles his BPC apartment

March 17, 2014- A real estate blog reports that actor Leonardo Di Caprio is not only staying put in his BPC apartment at 2 River Terrace, but bought out his neighbors for $8 Million, presumably to expand. (more…)
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MSG bails out struggling Tribeca Film Festival

March 23, 2014- By Steven E. Greer

With American Express having stopped the funding for the Tribeca Film Festival last year, and the increasing irrelevance of the event, the festival has been on life support. In fact, the home base has been moved to Pier 57, outside of Tribeca. Continue reading

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Gilded Age clothing

GildedAge_StorefrontApril 3, 2014- Story and photos by Mary Engels

Gilded Age kept its doors open late last night to showcase their Spring collection. Hand-painted Salvage denim washed in a natural indigo dye, over-dyed tees in lighter colors of blue and sage, along with linen short sleeved shirts are just a sampling of pieces geared for warmer weather.    Continue reading

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The BPC truck stop

April 9, 2014- A resident of North BPC made a funny comment, calling the situation on North End Avenue so bad, that it is a truck stop. Continue reading

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Details emerge on condo conversion of Verizon building on West Street

Verizon building 140 West StreetApril 11, 2014- In a Bloomberg article, details emerged of the condo conversion plans for the historic Verizon building on West Street, across from Goldman Sachs and WTC. Continue reading

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Catherine McVay Hughes gets a demotion

Hughes and Galoway at LeFrak meetingApril 11, 2014- Finally, the CB1 announced the long overdue new appointees to the Community Board 1. There was no news in the announcement since BP.TV previously exclusively reported on the new additions. Continue reading

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Floyd Cardoz Exits North End Grill

Chef Floyd on roofApril 11, 2014- In a very important move, BPC’s best restaurant, the North End Grill, has announced that Chef Floyd Cardoz is leaving. He might Continue reading

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Crooked politicians not off the hook. DOJ still pursuing.

CuomoApril 11. 2014- Any New York State politicians who were doing a victory lap when Governor Cuomo shut down his own anti-corruption panel, to get a budget passed, will be sweating like a whore in church today. The DOJ’s Preet Bharara is still pursing the crooked pols. Continue reading

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Book Review: Dragnet Nation by Julia Angwin

Dragnet-Nation-UpdatedMarch 2, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD

Author of Dragnet Nation, Julia Angwin, won her Pulitzer Prize while working for the Wall Street Journal. She is now is an investigative reporter for ProPublica. Her new book builds upon her years of work while at the WSJ that detailed how our privacy has been eroded by the modern digital age, updated for the Ed Snowden NSA revelations. Continue reading

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Rajkumar refuses to address key plagiarism charges

Rajkumar PlaskinApril 10, 2014- The Downtown Express has posted an update to their story about the lawyer Jenifer Rajkumar being accused of plagiarism by competing lawyers. It seems that the three law firms will now join up and battle LeFrak and the BPCA as a team in their class action case. Continue reading

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Biggest Medicare crook is South Florida eye doctor, and friend of NJ Senator Mendez

Melgen with Obama and MendezApril 9, 2014- The release of data by Medicare that shows what individual doctors earned from Medicare is making all sorts of news. One of the biggest over-billing crooks is a Miami eye doctor who is no stranger to investigations. Continue reading

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Send us your photos and videos

Send us your photos and videos of trucks and tour buses illegally parked, PEP sleeping on the job, children having to cross unsafe streets, filthy grocery stores, funny things, cool things, restaurant meals, etc. (more…)
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Human error caused Seaport ferry boat crash

April 9, 2014- BatteryPark.TV has previously reported that the various ferry boat companies serving Downtown are unnecessarily risking lives by having only one human at the helm. Continue reading

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Sheldon Silver fights for LeFrak, not the common voter

cropped-Christie-Silver-classics-text.jpgApril 9, 2014- By Steven E. Greer

The local Broadsheet (BS) was handed some inside information from Robin Forst at the BPCA to help their case in the court of public opinion. Recall, the BPCA is now heading to real court for the class action lawsuit being brought by at least three different lawfirms over the price gouging and poor services provided by the LeFrak-owned Gateway Plaza. Continue reading

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Exclusive: BPCA hires engineer team to redesign streets

West Thames accident and kidsApril 8, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD

BatteryPark.TV has previously reported on the temporary plans of the City DOT that will make South End Avenue and West Thames safer. The installation of concrete medians and painted curbs, etc., was supposed to begin once the warmer Spring weather arrived, so we reached out to the DOT for an update. Continue reading

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Diversity at Goldman Sachs?

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The Netflix Late Reviewer: Anchorman 2

April 6, 2014- Very funny flick. Worth seeing. (more…)
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Exclusive: Lawyers battle to be plaintiffs’ counsel for Gateway class action

Gateway windows 2April 7, 2014- By Steven E. Greer

It seems that the class action lawsuit against LeFrak real estate, brought by Gateway Plaza tenant Maureen Koetz and her Continue reading

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Fortress to Tudor Lose in First Quarter as Macro Misfires

hudson-river-park-new-york-600x400April 7, 2014- In Bloomberg, about  HRPT’s Mike Novogratz, “Paul Tudor Jones, Michael Novogratz and Louis Bacon, hedge-fund managers that profited last year from bets on macroeconomic trends, posted losses in the first quarter as some of those trades turned against them. Continue reading

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Interview with BASIS Independent Brooklyn

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