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Why is the city shutting down at 2:00 AM?
October 18th, 2009 This weekend, on a survey of more than five hotel bars, regular bars, and restaurant bars in Bowery, SOHO and Tribeca, all of the establishments shut down no later than 2:00 AM despite having plenty of customers. What is the explanation for this seemingly voluntary forfeiting of (more…)
BPCA guidelines clearly allow for replacement of ballfields without RFP delays
January 16, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD
BatteryPark.TV has exclusively reported that the BPCA has the authority to replace the ballfields, and repair the Asphalt Green community center, without going though lengthy RFP contract delays. However, for unknown reasons, the BPCA has chosen to announce RFPs before granting the ballfields construction contract, raising concern that the Little League season will be disrupted.
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Have you ever used the Doorman’s Guide?
February 14, 2012 The local advertising flier The Broadsheet self proclaims that it’s other advertising flier, The Doorman’s Guide, is the most used reference for local shops. We find this unbelievable. Even before the Internet, Seemless Web, Yelp, BatteryPark.TV, etc, we knew of no one to ever use this old (more…)
New York Post refutes false Lindsay Lohan rumor started in a Tribeca blog
Update February 12, 2012 The New York Post covered this false rumor about Lindsay Lohan looking to start a restaurant in an empty commercial storefront in Tribeca. Per below, the rumor was started by a Tribeca blog that receives money from local real estate brokers. Perhaps it was a ploy (more…)
Reliable gun violence statistics
February 12, 2013 By Steven E. Greer, MD
In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut massacre of 20 first graders and six brave adults, the debate over gun control Continue reading
Complaints brewing about Hudson Produce bad service
We have received complaints about this establishment (see comments section). What has been your experience? Please post your opinion of this business in the comments section. 300 Albany St # 1 New York, NY 10280-1404 (212) 945-0500 (more…)
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Just a Storm? Not After the Hurricane
February 8, 2013 The New York Times By CARA BUCKLEY Perhaps in any other year, the nor’easter would have been met with little more than a shrug in the New York region. Sure, some people would still have stocked up on batteries, water, food and snow shovels. But even they (more…)
The best source to monitor the non-blizzard
Update February 9, 8:00 AM: At most, another inch of snow fell since 1:00 AM, leaving only a total of 5 inches on the ground. It seems to be melting on the streets already. There are no power outages and all businesses should be open. This was a mild snowfall (more…)
Bloomberg expands in London
New York Times By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM LONDON — It is the biggest development in this city’s buzzing financial district, and even Olympics-jaded Londoners call it grandiose: two bronze-and-stone towers, connected by sky-bridges atop the ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman temple. Bloomberg Place, roughly the size of a Manhattan city (more…)
Battery Park City CB1 meeting, February 2013
February 5, 2013 By Steven E. Greer
At the monthly CB1 meeting tonight, the much anticipated updates by the BPCA on the ballfields and Asphalt Green repair projects were much ado about nothing. After somewhat of a distracting filibuster about the design of the ballfields and damage to the community center, BPCA spokesperson Matthew Monahan was Continue reading
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More than 16,500 read our review of North End Grill brunch
North End Grill’s ricotta pancakes with rhubarb jam and whipped honey butter $15 Click here for the menu and contacts ______________________________________________________________ Update May 25- A very respectable number of people, 16,500, have read this story to date. (more…)
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Viewership for January
For the month of January, 2013, BatteryPark.TV received: 20,071 total views for a 41% increase over a seasonally slow December To put hose numbers in perspective, according to a website Compete.com that can somehow estimate traffic, the eBroadsheet website received 350 hits a day, for approximately 10,500 total views for (more…)
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Last episode of 30 Rock filmed in BPC’s North Cove
The finale of the final episode of NBC’s “30 Rock” was filmed in Battery Park’s North Cove Marina. (more…)
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Pick-A-Bagel delivery bikes pollute South End Ave
February 3, 2013 As if the neglected Pick-A-Bagel and poor quality of service is not bad enough, the restaurant is now the source of property-value-lowering delivery bikes illegally chained to trees on South End Ave. The PEP should be ticketing these eyesores and removing them. Post your comments below. (more…)
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Billion dollar performing arts center at Ground Zero saved from extinction
January 31, 2013 The WSJ is reporting that the all-but-dead billion-dollar proposed performing arts center at Ground Zero has been given a small breath of life. However, it is far from a done deal. In the WSJ, by Jennifer Maloney, “After years of little progress, a planned performing-arts center at (more…)
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Unofficial minutes of the BPCA meeting to approve the 2013 budget
January 29, 2013 By Steven E. Greer
We were live blogging the BPCA board meeting today. Below is a summary of the comments.
Update 1: The BPCA board is discussing the 2013 fiscal year budget, “Expenses going down every year, revenues going up”. This means more money for the city, and the residents here pay for it. $126 million “excess revenues”, all goes to the city. We who live here cannot even get a traffic light on West Thames Street. Continue reading
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Without public comment, Poulakakos dominates BPC
January 25, 2012 By Steven E. Greer, MD
With the news that the World Financial Center might lease 25,000 square feet to the Poulakakos restaurant family to build a food court similar to Eataly, suddenly the Poulakakos’ group now dominates Battery Park City (BPC) and both of the ongoing Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) construction projects. All of these real estate deals were accomplished without public comment or debate. Continue reading
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