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Staten Island US Rep. Grimm threatens to kill NY1 reporter
January 29, 2014- The Post reports, “Rep. Michael Grimm went ballistic on a reporter after the State of the Union address Tuesday and threatened to throw him over a balcony and “break him in half” – and Grimm was not apologetic when he later told The Post the reporter was (more…)
Few snow plows for BPC under new mayor
January 21, 2014- For the second time this month, under the new mayor, a major snow accumulation as been met with no snow plows to the streets of Battery Park City. This is due to Mayor de Blasio’s promise to treat the other boroughs more fairly. While it might seem (more…)
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Petition against rehab facility at 2 Washington Street
Dear Editor of BatteryPark.TV:
We have been enjoying your coverage on the many topics that deeply concern us as residents in this area. Below is a topic that I thought might be of interest to you. As a resident of South BPC, we find this deeply disturbing and are hoping your coverage may help prevent this from happening!
Best, Qiong Sun
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Shari Hyman appointed new President and COO of the BPCA
January 28, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD During the BPCA board meeting today, Chairman/CEO Dennis Mehiel announced that the new President and COO of the BPCA will be Shari Hyman, starting the next month. Ms. Hyman earned her Northwestern law degree after graduating from Columbia. She became an assistant (more…)
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Super Bowl fireworks on the Hudson
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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…)