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Illegal town cars are out of control on Vesey Street
January 27, 2014- I was walking into the WFC when I heard a woman at the bus stop say “Officer, officer, these cars are blocking the bus stop. I have to go into the middle of the street to get the bus?”. In the photo, behind the police car is (more…)
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WTC fence to come down after 13 years
January 27, 2014- The WSJ reports, “A fence that has cordoned off the World Trade Center site from the rest of Downtown for the past 13 years is set to come down – at least partially – in 2014. The move will allow visitors to the 9/11 Memorial to move (more…)
Questions you should ask of the appointed BPCA
January 27, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
The BPCA, led by Chairman and CEO Dennis Mehiel, recently cancelled the December board meeting, thereby dodging questions about numerous controversies. They can’t run forever, and will hold the next board meeting on Tuesday the 28th..
What questions should you as a Battery Park City citizen ask when they finally face the music? The following are some starters: Continue reading
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No electeds or BPCA show up to support freezing Gateway tenants
January 7, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
Approximately 20 residents of LeFrak’s Gateway Plaza turned out in the bitter cold for the presentation by Glenn Plaskin, president of the Gateway Plaza Tenets Association (GPTA), updating the CB1 on the lack of progress made by LeFrak to fix the cold leaking windows and exorbitant electric bills. For the second year in a row, Mr. Plaskin chose to have this meeting in the middle of the winter, when it is too late to prevent the suffering.
Mr. Plaskin briefed the audience on Continue reading
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Fernando Mateo goes on PR offensive to repair name
January 2, 2014- Fernando Mateo, the infamous member of the BPCA board, seemingly constantly in the news for doing bad things, went on the PR offensive. He created a Continue reading
BPCA board member Fernando Mateo gets in trouble at pro-A-Rod rally
Update January 12, 2014- A-Rod was banned for the entire 2014 seasons for using steroids. 60 Minutes interviewed the man who supplied the drugs, allegedly, and claims that A-Rod’s entourage made death threats against him. October 21, 2013- The Post is reporting that our controversial BPCA board member, Fernando Mateo, (more…)
BPCA’s Fernando Mateo in the news again for another scandal
Mateo, far right December 23, 2013- The Post reports, “The battle over La Marina has gotten so bizarre that one owner — former taxi bigwig Fernando Mateo — even challenged two of his business partners to a boxing bout to settle their dispute, according to Manhattan Supreme Court papers….He also (more…)
More “service animal” scams
January 26, 2014- BP.TV recently reported on the concept of nutjob dog owners pretending to be mentally disabled in order to take own dogs in buildings that forbid dogs. Government bureaucrats are actually enabling this, apparently because it seems like a politically popular strategy. Well, it’s happening again, “The federal (more…)
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Real estate moguls: Not as wealthy as you might have thought
January 23, 2014- The Real Deal blog reports on a list they made that tries to rank the top-ten wealthiest real estate moguls in the city. The dollar amounts are not nearly in the same league as hedge fund moguls, who make several billion per year, so New York still (more…)
Local man convinces the State of New York to sue on his behalf in dog dispute
January 13, 2014- A Battery Park City grandfather, Roman Erikhman, age 76, who lives in the “Cove Club” at 2 South End, was sued in 2012 by his building’s condo board and building manager, Milford Management ( a division of Milstein Properties). The Cove Club plaintiffs accused Mr. Erikhman of harboring a large-breed Doberman Pincher in violation of the rules of the building. Mr. Erikhman claimed that the dog was needed as a “service dog”, since he is “deaf”. The whole mess is best summed up in this two-page decision by the judge, which is sending the matter to trial this year.
However, in a remarkable turn of events. Mr. Erikhman has convinced the State of New York, through its Division of Human Rights, to file a suit against Milford Management Continue reading
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Latest view of Liberty Street elevated park
January 24, 2014- CBS showed this view of the WTC site, and we spotted the Liberty Street elevated park construction, with the Greek Orthodox Church. Liberty Street elevated park revealed Laughable cost estimates for the Liberty Street Greek Church (more…)
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Just how unreliable is what you read on the Internet?
January 20, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
Everyone knows that “blogs” no longer have the same level of reliability as printed newspapers used to have decades ago (and those were not always accurate, to say the least). Most blogs now have low-paid junior people who simply aggregate stories from other sources without bothering to do the slightest amount of fact checking.
With that in mind, we spotted something so egregious, so exemplary of this modern blog-laziness problem, that it is worthy of reporting. Continue reading
Do the data support Mayor Bloomberg’s public health and safety legacy?
February 6, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD More than reform of the public school system or racial harmony, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s legacy will undoubtedly be his innovative and controversial measures to deal with public health and safety issues. His agendas have generated strong criticism. Is he a misguided fascists (more…)
AOL unloads struggling Patch network of local news blogs
January 16, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD Have you ever heard of Patch? Not many people have, despite it having the backing of AOL and its Huffington Post, and that is why the AOL CEO sold it yesterday. Patch was a failed attempt to patch together hyperlocal news blogs (more…)
Snooty co-op boards loosen rules as demand slumps
January 25, 2014- The NYT reports that the co-ops boards in Manhattan, infamous for rigorous background checks ans arbitrarily rejecting people, are now allowance riffraff to purchase units. The other form of ownership, condominiums, have fewer restrictions, making the real estate more liquid. As the real estate market slumps, co-ops (more…)
The Blue Smoke fried chicken sandwich
Update June 8, 2013- The Blue Smoke fried chicken sandwich is now perfected. Also, the management and staff have changed quite a bit. We can recommend this establishment. March 25, 2013 By Steven E. Greer We got an exclusive look at the new Blue Smoke fried chicken sandwich, and we (more…)
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Google wants your DNA now
Opinion December 17, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD
The Wall Street Journal published an article explaining how the pharmaceutical industry data mines credit card records, Internet traffic patterns, and other personal data on individuals, then forms educated guesses about the diseases those people might have. Locating actual people with specific diseases is valuable for companies that recruit patients into clinical trials, and also for drug companies trying to sell products via Direct-To-Consumer advertising.
What if there were a much better way to not only know exactly the diseases a person has, but also what diseases they are likely to develop? There is, and it is found in one’s human genome, or their DNA.
The Holy Grail for marketing companies and the healthcare industry would be to know the DNA of people. Of course, that information is strictly confidential and it would be illegal to snoop and collect DNA from people, unless people are tricked into giving it away with contractual consent.
23andMe, a small company that sells genetic screening kits based on saliva samples, recently got into trouble for illegally marketing genetic screening tests that were not validated and approved by the FDA. The company has since stopped marketing the tests.
A few news reports did mention that 23andMe is a Google-backed genetic testing company, run by the ex-wife of Google Founder Sergey Brin. But Google has far more ambitious plans than just 23andMe. Continue reading
Christie might join a long list of New Jersey officials in prison
Update: January 19, 2014: Now, the Democrat mayor of Hoboken claims that Christie held the federal relief money for Hurricane Sandy victims as hostage, unless she agreed t support a pork project he wanted. Update: January 10, 2014: The Feds are looking into whether Governor Christie and his staff broke (more…)