Fake Banksy tag placed on Syms building

October 31, 2013- A fake Banksy graffiti art tag was placed on the Greenwich Street side of the Syms building. The adjacent performing arts center 3LD stated that they are “modifying it with video.” but denied being the ones to create it. (more…)
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Fired city parks officer wants job back

Captain Falcon of PEPNovember 1, 2013- BatteryPark.TV has reported on the problems at the top with our local Park Enforcement Patrol (PEP) officers, led by Captain Ed Falcon. The New York City Parks Department has endemic problems.

The Post is reporting, “A Parks Department boss, Continue reading

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Should kayakers blow whistles when they leave port?

August 29, 2013- By Steven E. Greer BatteryPark.TV previously reported how kayak activists complained to the Coast Guard about theoretical safety issues with larger passenger ferries causing the Coast Guard to enforce old rules about sounding horns when docking. The result has been a daily menace to society of nonstop (more…)
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Banksy’s Grim Reaper

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Another CBS show films at North Cove Marina

October 16, 2013- The CBS drama “person of Interest” filmed extensively at the North Cove Marina. (more…)
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Great Halloween costume

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Chocolate skulls galore

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Route 66 BBQ opens in FiDi

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The end of sailing season

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First Precinct Community Affairs meeting: CO clarifies BS story, bike gangs, and courts

Cy Vance at police meetingOctober 24, 2013- By Steven E. Greer

The monthly meeting of the First Precinct Community Affairs took place a week early to avoid conflicts with Halloween. District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. gave a talk about the agenda for his office in his latest term, for which he will be re-elected this November. He discussed the growing problem of cybercrime and identity theft.

Commander Timoney then took the podium and BatteryPark.TV asked about the recent problems with biker gangs. CO Timoney began Continue reading

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BPCA hires staffer away from current auditor company

Daniel Curiale LinkdInOctober 26, 2013- By Steven E. Greer

In yet another questionable move, The Battery Park City Authority’s (BPCA) Chairman/CEO, Dennis Mehiel, hired a staffer as a full-time in-house BPCA employee even though the staffer creates a conflict of interest. Daniel Curiale, CPA worked at the accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLF prior to joining the BPCA, where he now earns at least Continue reading

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Architectural icons then and now: Woolworth and Gehry buildings

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Broadsheet, absent throughout Hurricane Sandy, posts self-congratulatory letter

November 16, 2012 The publisher of the local advertising flier The Broadsheet, Robert Simko, and his employee “Pulitzer” Matt Fenton, were both silent throughout the Hurricane Sandy aftermath, publishing nothing for days on end. Therefore, we find it quite offensive that Mr. Simko published a self congratulatory letter thanking him (more…)
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Interactive map of the Sandy flooding

The NYT has this interactive map of the flooding we experienced after the storm. (more…)
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Egregious service by Verizon in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

October 31, 2012 The Verizon land line phones are still down, astonishingly. Since they use the same lines as the Fios Internet and TV, this is clearly a human error. The headquarters for Verizon is less than a mile away on West Street. Recall, the Internet service went out for (more…)
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Images from the top of 4 WTC

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Another bicycle gang violently assaults a random pedestrian

Update September 23, 2013- A gang of young males on bicycles, matching the description and using the similar methods of the September 11th case, below, violently attacked a Columbia professor. They seem to have chosen the victim for no apparent reason other than to commit an act of gang violence. (more…)
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Exclusive: BPCA hired employment lawyer to investigate complaints by employees

August 21, 2013- BatteryPark.TV exclusively reported on August 12th that an investigation was underway at the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) stemming from employee complaints about the President, Demetri Boutris, and other executives, being abusive to staff and making wrongful firings. Shortly thereafter, on Friday, August 16th, President Demitri Boutris abruptly resigned.

On Tuesday, August 20th, the BPCA board convened to discuss bond and budget matters, but no mention was made of the investigation or resignation of the president. When a New York Times reporter asked Chairman and CEO Dennis Mehiel about the issue, Mr. Mehiel flat out denied that any investigations was underway, or that any investigation caused Mr. Boutris to resign.

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Huge news for Tribeca: Citigroup to stay at Greenwich Street tower

October 24, 2013- The WSJ is reporting that Citigroup will decide t renew the lease at the Greenwich Street headquarters rather than move to Midtown as Merrill Lynch did. If Citi had left, Tribeca restaurants and and the apartment market would have tanked. (more…)
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Governor Cuomo’s anticorruption commission investigates Sheldon Silver scandals

September 26, 2013- The Columbia University journalism school news venue published an essay about Sheldon Silver hiding under his desk in the wake of scandals, “As I prepared this column, it suddenly occurred to me that Silver was noticeably absent from the Democratic Party unity news conference on behalf of (more…)
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