December 25, 2013- Parm is one of the full sit-down restaurants coming to Brookfield Place this year, on the corner of Vesey and North End Avenue. The original small shop on Mulberry Street won two stars in the NY Times and was one of Newsweek’s “101 Best Places to eat”.
This is what Pete Wells of the NYT wrote, Continue reading
January 1, 2014– By Steven E. Greer
Well, we made it into yet another year, sound and alive. Congratulations.
How can we make 2014 a better year than the past? For starters, wouldn’t it be nice if certain annoying (or worse than annoying) people just went into retirement this year?
I made a short wish list. Please post your own comments and suggestions. Continue reading
October 2, 2014- By Steven E. Greer
If you want some absurdly good Italian/Mediterranean food, five years after opening, Scarpetta still impresses the senses.
January 8, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD
The chronic problem of the Conrad Hotel allowing large groups using the hotel to have their transportation illegally park on North End Avenue was in rare form tonight. The entire strip between Murray and Vesey Streets was jammed with gas guzzling SUVs. When the driver of the lead SUV (closest to Murray) got out of his car to walk into the Conrad, BP.TV asked him to move his car. He dismissed the request stating, “So, everyone is parked there.”.
To investigate Continue reading
December 2, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD
BatteryPark.TV previously reported that the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) contract with the New York City Parks Department pays for a large number of Park Enforcement Patrol (PEP) officers that are not actually patrolling the parks of BPC. The question of whether the full staff of eight to eleven PEP, that are supposed to be on duty at any given time patrolling the 35-acres of BPC parks, really show up to work, or are instead “no-shows”.
BatteryPark.TV has exclusively learned that Continue reading
January 11, 2014- The Post is reporting that a 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a yellow taxi as the father watched in horror. The two were crossing a residential street on the Upper West Side.
This same type of danger exists in Battery Park. Continue reading
December 31, 2013- By Steven E. Greer, MD
For Thanksgiving, I made the mistake of eating mashed potatoes with truffle oil, at North End Grill, and my wimpy GI system rejected it. I wrote “Two-year review of The North End Grill: Truffle oil should be banned”. Therefore, it is somewhat vindicating to read today that the NY Post’s food critic agrees.
In their year-end review of food trends from 2013 that need to go away, they wrote, Continue reading