The BroadsheetDAILY June 19, 2019

Back-to-Back Public Meetings Tonight Will Focus on Safety, Resiliency, and Vision

In this context, tonight’s meeting may represent a chance to bring widespread resident concerns about issues like affordability to the center of the BPCA’s vision for itself. This could represent a further step in the evolution of the BPCA’s mission, which has shifted in recent years to include both resiliency and affordability as priorities.

The resiliency assessment begins at 6:00 pm, but a separate, earlier session (at the same location, beginning at 5:00 pm) will continue the Build a Block series of meetings that features Neighborhood Coordination Officers from the NYPD’s First Precinct, who will focus on policing and public safety issues in Battery Park City, south of West Thames Street. Light refreshments will be served.

Scant Information about Radical Changes Contemplated for the Battery

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I received the attached map from the US Coast Guard recently. It shows the area of the Hudson River that is closed for the Sail GP races on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon.

What is interesting is that the ferries going from Jersey City to the WTC terminal on Saturday that replace the closed PATH system will have to go north to Pier 26, then cross the river, then head south. This may slow them down quite a bit.

https://sailgp.com/races/new-york/race-information/

The Battery Park City Authority(BPCA) is beginning to formulate a roadmap for shrinking the community’s environmental impact. At the May 21 meeting of the agency’s board of directors, Authority president Benjamin Jones explained that, “we’re now making a concerted effort, which we talked a little bit about at our last meeting, to further advance sustainable practices, both in our operations and throughout the neighborhood.”

Get inspired by the beautiful expanse of the Hudson River & New York Harbor. Embolden your artwork amidst the flower-filled and
seasonally evolving palette of Wagner Park’s verdant gardens. An artist/educator will provide ideas and instruction. Materials
provided. Wagner Park. FREE

Add Color (Refugee Boat) (1960/2019) is an interactive installation conceived by Yoko Ono. Upon opening, the work will be comprised simply of a boat placed within an empty space. The public will then be invited to paint their thoughts, ideas and hopes on the walls, floor and boat. As the installation progresses, messages will be written in support, contrast and literal obfuscation of one another, moving the space from visual calm to a layered visual chaos – a beautiful sea of color from afar, a more restless reality upon closer inspection. Freely imbued in this way with a multiplicity of thoughts, each time Add Color (Refugee Boat) is shown it both shares in the memory of past iterations, while taking on a life and a meaning of its own – acutely reflecting the time, place and people that come together to create it. 203 Front Street. Through the end of June

Directed by Church Street School for Music and Art musicians, the BPC Chorus is open to all adults who love to sing. Learn a mix of contemporary and classic songs, and perform at community events throughout the year. 6 River Terrace. FREE

One Wall Street

Anyone interested in practicing their Japanese conversation skills and learning more about Japanese culture are welcome to join this Japanese conversation club! Join a studying librarian and a native Japanese speaker each week to learn something new about Japan and speak in Japanese. BPC branch of the New York Public Library. 175 North End Avenue. FREE

This groundbreaking documentary from Li Hong, China’s first independent female documentarian, follows two years in the lives of four young women from the countryside who have come to Beijing for jobs.
Although they work long hours as maids or street vendors and share a tiny room no bigger than a closet, they savor these years- between living as a daughter at home and returning to the village to marry -as probably the freest time of their lives.Documenting both her deepening relationship with these women and the gulf of experiences and opportunity that separate them, Hong carefully charts their hopes for a better future and dreams of self-determination. In interviews and intimate footage, Hong elicits remarkably candid and complex testimony from her subjects as they frankly discuss their work, pressures from home, and experiences with men. A remarkable achievement, this touching film is a fascinating look at the lives of women whose experiences are rarely explored. As they straddle traditional and modern roles, their stories uniquely exemplify the conflicts between the swift changes in women’s roles occurring in China and around the developing world. 40 Rector Street. $5

Learn how to throw an eco-friendly dinner party. From crafting delicious sustainable cocktails and seasonal salads, to decorating with household items, lifestyle host Bea Copeland shows you how to create a dinner party everyone can feel good about. 205 Front Street $10-$20

Local Leaders Raise Concerns about Traffic and Crowding from Planned Events Venue at Brookfield

	Brookfield Place

On Wednesday morning, two dozen cages fashioned from chain-link fencing appeared on sidewalks at strategic locations around Manhattan and Brooklyn. A pair of these were placed in Lower Manhattan: one on Centre Street, opposite the Municipal Building and close by the Brooklyn Bridge; the other about two blocks away, near the intersection of Broadway and Vesey Streets.

A Stele for Survivors Honors Those Who Came Back, and Those Who Chose to Settle Downtown After the Dust Settled

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Local Elected Officials Say ‘Avast’ to Water-Borne Ads, But Company Claims City Is Out of Its Depth

Although Not Yet a Shore Thing, Proposal for Brooklyn Bridge Beach Takes a Step Forward

The plan, backed by all of these constituencies, aims to create a crescent-shaped wedge of sand along the East River waterfront, just north of the South Street Seaport, where park-goers could wade knee deep in tide. If built, it would become the sole access point at which Lower Manhattan residents could step into the water that surrounds them, rather than merely looking at it.