June 9, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD
Over the weekend, news broke that the man in charge of U.S. commercial operations for Brookfield Office Properties, Mitch Rudin, abruptly left office. Crain’s and Bloomberg could not get much comment from the company, Continue reading
June 18, 2014- The Fed will raise rates soon and the housing bubble is deflating.
WSJ reports, “Second-quarter Manhattan Continue reading
May 20, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) recently opened a Shake Shack in Moscow right as Vladimir Putin was becoming a raging homophobe and starting the second Cold War. Then, they got into trouble when Mets baseball players blamed the Shake Shack burgers on giving them food poisoning (See the May 20th Daily Show for a complete segment on this). Continue reading
June 1, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
BatteryPark.TV previously reported on how the entire Brookfield Place renovation is far behind schedule, and that the organization to Continue reading
Update May 6, 2014-The BPCA board convened a meeting today. For the fourth straight month, board member Fernando Mateo was absent. This coincides with multiple scandals involving Mr. Mateo in the press (see below). At this point, he has clearly been removed from the board, but no official announcement has been made. Continue reading
June 11, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
As expected, the local advertising flier, The Broadsheet (BS), which is consistently in bed with special interests that fund it, has published a puff piece on the approval of the liquor license for Pier A, to be run by the Poulakakos team. Continue reading
June 16, 2014- Opinion by Steven E. Greer
The final SLA letter for the Pier-A beer garden and nightclub was obtained by BatteryPark.TV. Continue reading
Update June 16, 2014- Observer is reporting that Plan B wants to get out of their lease, which costs $21,000 per month, because they cannot make things work financially. Continue reading
June 16, 2014- Have you ever wondered how weird “book stores” and “spas” stay open despite never seeing any customers? They are often fronts for money laundering. Continue reading
June 5, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
BatteryPark.TV previously reported that Carol Tweedy was ousted from Asphalt Green, and that the BPC location was having membership problems. Continue reading
June 7, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
On February 25th, newly elected Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, and Chris Curry of the Continue reading
June 11, 2014- The WSJ reports, “The proprietors of P.J. Clarke’s on the Hudson LLC, located in a prime waterfront spot at Brookfield Place, Continue reading
June 13, 2014- The Dead Rabbit in FiDi opened with PR-placed stories in the WSJ acclaiming it as “world’s best bartender” and so on. Continue reading
June 10, 2014- Curbed posted renderings of the “50 West” skyscraper apartment building going in next to BPC across from West Thames. Continue reading
To the Editor of Battery Park TV:
We are a non profit organization in Tribeca. Continue reading
June 7, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
One of the things I like best about attending Community Board 1 meetings in the library on North End Avenues is leaving them when they end. Continue reading
June 11, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
Apparently wanting to avoid public questions about her controversial attempt to slip a secret MOU about Pier-A air rights by opponents, Continue reading
June 12, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
A blogger today seems to have gotten his hands on our essay that I circulated about Mighty Quinn’s in Brookfield Place’s Hudson Eats and is writing about it himself. In it, I made the novel observation that our satellite Mighty Quinn’s lacks the aroma of the smoker in the Second Avenue store. Maybe we just think alike. Who knows.
Anyway, I was not going to publish this yet, but I have to now. I wrote the following on June 5th. Continue reading