October 4, 2013- Letter from Dean, resident of River Terrace
Dear Editor:
This an opportune time to discuss the “green” aspects of Battery Park City as they relate to the air quality outside of the Solaire residential building. The Port Authority Ferry Terminal is producing a massive amount of noise pollution in Battery Park City.
There are federal laws to Continue reading
Dear Editor:
I recently moved into 380 Rector Place and I have a dog. I walk throughout our neighborhood and I am shocked by the amount of dog waste there is on the street and on the promenade. Is there no enforcement in our neighborhood ?
I feel like we need to charge a fee to all dog owners including me (I pick up I even pick up if I see other waste by mine) for a pick up fee and have someone clean up after these lazy people. Maybe, if we start charging people they will pick up.
Can you post signs on every tree tell them to pick up? It is just disgusting.
When the weather gets warmer it will truly be a health hazard not to mention the smell.
Please tell me if there is anything I can do as a concerned New New Yorker resident.
Thank you.
Marian McCarthy, Esquire Continue reading
I think that nobody is happy with this ongoing process within the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). They fire people making below $50,000, but then they re-hire for the same position people with little different title but with double the salary. HR is in cahoots with them. The VP HR lady was hired under the new BPCA administration, without any qualifications, for $138,000. She brought from her old job three more people with salaries above $80,000, without any reason to hire them.
They do not advertise the positions and think that this is their fiefdom. They think they can do anything.
Chairman Dennis Mehiel is no less guilty. A person of Continue reading
To: Celine Mizrahi, Staffer for Rep. Jerrold Naddler
Ms. Mizrahi,
I received your email as a possible contact in Rep. Nadler’s office. If you are the incorrect contact, would you please forward my note to the correct person.
I read that Rep. Nadler was at the CB1 meeting yesterday and discussed the ferry boat horns at the BPC ferry terminal with a reporter. Please thank him for helping the community with this issue.
The unnecessary horns have Continue reading
February 14, 2-14- With hundreds of millions of dollars in surplus budget, the BPCA cannot plow the streets or eliminate street slush puddles the size of Lake Erie. Continue reading
February 11, 2014- BPCA board member Fernando Mateo is in the news again. This time, he wants regular drivers to be fined if their cars blow snow onto taxi drivers. Yes, you read that correctly. Local CBS TV reports, Continue reading
February 11, 2014- The Post reports on the prosecution of a man who murdered another man after he randomly punched him in the head. The “knockout” epidemic has made the news, but few realize the seriousness of those assaults. Continue reading
January 28, 2014– By Steven E. Greer
I took a long lunch after getting my nails done, so to speak (i.e. haircut), and was chatting with the Director of Operations for all of the Blue Smoke restaurants of the USHG, Kari Matthews. We learned some things. Continue reading
February 10, 2014- The WSJ reports that New York State and City have very narrow definitions of vehicular homicide, including only people driving while drink or on drugs. Therefore, many dangerous drivers with past histories of deadly crashes continue to drive cabs.
However, that is no excuse for the TLC, which allows bad drivers to keep on killing despite fatal crashes. The TLC makes its own rules and can revoke licenses for virtually any reason that the TLC magistrates deem appropriate. Yet bad taxi drivers are a scourge to New York, nevertheless.