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Breaking It Down
Composting Catches on in Battery Park City
You’re probably heard of the farm-to-table movement. Thanks to the Battery Park City Authority’s compost initiative, there’s a burgeoning table-to-earth movement in this Lower Manhattan community.
One of the easiest and most meaningful actions an individual can take to address climate change is to separate raw vegetable and fruit scraps, coffee grounds and other organic material from garbage and send it back into the environment. In Battery Park City, a growing number of residents are depositing their vegetable scraps in compost bins strategically placed around the neighborhood. The BPCA expects to process 36,000 pounds of compost by the end of the year, up from 20,000 pounds in 2018 and 12,000 pounds in 2017.
The BPCA maintains compost bins for community use at the corner of Chambers Street and River Terrace (lower level on the esplanade) and outside parks operations at 75 Battery Place, and also picks up scraps collected each week at the Tribeca Greenmarket. A pilot program at Gateway Plaza launched this past April is up to about 1,000 pounds of scraps collected per month.
What happens to the scraps after you’ve dropped them in the bin? How do your apple peels and corn husks turn into rich, beneficial compost?
The Broadsheet set out to investigate.
A couple times a week, a little green truck from the BPCA’s parks department trundles around Battery Park City and picks up vegetable scraps and other organic matter destined for composting. The scraps are brought inside parks headquarters at 75 Battery Place, where they’re dumped out and hand-sorted. Educating well-meaning residents about what’s compostable and what’s not is still a big priority for the BPCA, as meat, cooked food and other non-compostable items are regularly found in the compost bins. Parks employees have also pulled out dog poop, dirty diapers, and glass and plastic.
The sorters are very careful. Ryan Torres, assistant director of parks operations, says if a non-compostable item-say, a chicken bone-does get through the sorting, a foul smell eventually develops, and they know that a batch of compost is contaminated. Most of the time, however, it smells sweet and earthy here. Once the scraps are sorted, they are put into a machine that chops them into tiny pieces. From there, it’s two steps up and a quick dump into the Earth Flow, a large steel container with a giant augur that automates mixing, aeration and moisture.
“We measure everything-temperature, weight, moisture content,” said director of horticulture Anne O’Neill, pointing to a set of dials and a scale. She explained that a nitrogen/carbon balance is essential for proper compost. The vegetable scraps provide nitrogen to the process and are combined with ground wood, bark, and plants that contribute carbon.
It takes about three weeks for the augur to work the big pile-which is continuously receiving fresh batches of ground up vegetable scraps and woody material-to the other end of the Earth Flow machine. From here, the compost is transferred to large bins, where it rests for three months, curing and stabilizing. Finally, it’s ready to be used in the grounds of the Battery Park City.
Throughout the process, and especially at its conclusion, the horticulture team analyzes the compost and its rich liquid by-product, compost tea, in the BPCA’s Soil Lab. Under the microscope, samples are checked for the right balance of bacteria, fungi, flagellates, ciliates and other microorganisms. “We gauge the biological activity so that we can put out the compost when the organisms are at their peak,” said David Wallace, associate director of horticulture.
So, about four months after you drop your onion skins and coffee grounds in a Battery Park City compost bin, they’ve been transformed into organic, nutrient-rich compost, as opposed to taking up space in a landfill and emitting gas into the atmosphere.
The BPCA compost operation has plenty of support from the neighborhood. Residents are enthusiastic, and management at Gateway Plaza — the program’s first multi-building expansion — is fully on board. “Gateway management is happy to support this successful program and we look forward to teaming up with BPCA on future projects that help to improve the environment,” said Gateway’s general manager Gregory Tumminia.
But just as the word is getting out about composting in Battery Park City, the BPCA compost operation is reaching capacity. While there’s some flexibility to accommodate more scraps from residents, the BPCA is weighing options to expand the program. “BPCA is always thinking of other opportunities to be sure we capture the future needs of the increasing demands to compost,” Mrs. Torres said.
Want to see for yourself? The BPCA is offering tours of its compost operation on September 23 at 9am and September 24 at 11am, as part of Climate Week NYC. Register for the tour by email info@bpca.ny.gov or at (212) 267-9700. You can also learn more about the BPCA’s compost program by clicking here.
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Storm-Proofing Confabs
The Battery Park City Authority and Community Board 1 will co-host a pair of upcoming meetings on various aspects of resiliency measures being planned for the neighborhood.
On Thursday, September 26, the focus will be on the ball fields, where temporary measures to protect the facility (and thus safeguard the fall season for local youth recreation leagues) are already in place. This session will be held in the community space at Six River Terrace, next to le pain Quotidien and across from the Irish Hunger Memorial, and will start at 6:00 pm.
On Tuesday, October 1, the topic will be the measures now being planned for the northern border of the community, behind Stuyvesant High School, and possibly extending into Tribeca. This session will take place at the community room within 200 Rector Place, and will start at 6:30 pm. Admission to both meetings is free of charge, and no R.S.V.P. is needed.
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‘And the Little Children Shall Lead Them…’
Lower Manhattan Students Leave School to March in The Climate Strike
Today (Friday, September 20) elementary and high school students from throughout Lower Manhattan — and around the City — are expected to walk out of classes shortly before noon to attend Climate Strike NYC: A Call to Action. Matthew Fenton
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Getting Squeezed Coming and Going
Influential Planning Group Wants Two-Way Congestion Pricing
For Lower Manhattan residents who already feel aggrieved by the State’s pending congestion pricing plan (which will charge people who live here to drive to their homes), the Regional Plan Association (RPA) has a suggestion for how to make it worse: levy a toll upon drivers both as they enter and as they leave the zone south of 60th Street.
Matthew Fenton
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In One Era and Out the Other:
A pair of at-the-time unheralded milestones marked the year 2009.
That was when the venerable Checker Motors Corporation — which had for nearly a century manufactured the roomy yellow cabs that became mobile landmarks on urban streetscapes throughout America — filed for bankruptcy in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
And it was also the year that high school dropout and self-taught engineer Daniel Wood demonstrated the prototype for his new invention, which he called the “SBU,” for self-balancing unicycle. This electric-powered, gyroscope-packed, accelerometer-equipped, one-wheeled cycle has, in the decade since, evolved into the “SoloWheel,” now almost as common a sight on Manhattan streets as the once-ubiquitous Checker Cab is rare.
photo: Sarah Cassell Matthew Fenton
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A Guardian of Local Children Falls
Esteemed Lower Manhattan School Safety Officer Victim of Murder-Suicide
A protector and defender of Lower Manhattan school children is gone. Naire McCormick, who has served as the uniformed School Safety Agent at Millennium High School in the Financial District for the past four years, died on Sunday evening, the victim of an apparent murder-suicide in Brooklyn.
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Influx Reflux
Study Predicts 300 Fewer Vehicles Per Day on Local Streets If Verrazzano Toll Changes
A new analysis commissioned by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority has quantified the possible impact on Lower Manhattan traffic of a proposal being spearheaded by Congressman Jerry Nadler and City Council member Margaret Chin to reform tolling policy on that span, which connects Brooklyn with Staten Island.
Although Verrazzano is eight miles away from Lower Manhattan, its toll regimen is a significant contributor to Downtown traffic patterns.
Matthew Fenton
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Death Came Calling at the Corner of Wall and Broad Streets, in Lower Manhattan’s First Major Terrorist Attack
As the noon hour approached on a fall Thursday morning in 1920, a horse-drawn wagon slowly made its way west down Wall Street toward “the Corner,” the high-powered intersection of Wall and Broad. Its driver came to a gentle stop in front of the Assay Office, where stockpiles of gold and silver were stored and tested for purity. But theft was not his motive.
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EYES TO THE SKY
September 16 – 29, 2019
Protect the night. It is good for you
As the Sun’s arc shortens in the skies of Earth’s northern hemisphere, we approach equal day and night. To read more…
Judy Isacoff
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Today’s Calendar
Monday September 23
9AM
BPCA Composting Tours
75 Battery Place (Parks Operations headquarters)
Last year the Battery Park City Authority composted more than 20,000 lbs. of food and waste, and is on-pace to compost over 35,000 lbs. in 2019.
Join us for a tour of BPCA’s composting program and see how this waste stream is diverted from the landfill.
Please register by email info@bpca.ny.gov or by calling 212-267-9700.
75 Battery Place. A tour will also be given tomorrow at 11AM.
6PM
Community Board 1’s Nominating Committee
Community Board 1 – Conference Room 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North 1) Discussion of Secretary candidates 6:30PM
China Institute 40 Rector St.
6:30PM
Personnel Committee
Community Board 1 – Conference Room 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North 7PM
Executive Committee
Community Board 1 – Conference Room 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North The September Community Board 1 monthly meeting will be held at 6PM tomorrow, Tuesday September 24, at Southbridge Towers Community Room, 90 Beekman Street.
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DAY IN HISTORY
September 23
1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years’ War and the first naval battle using gunpowder artillery.
1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds of gold (worth a pretty penny today), is lost at sea off Land’s End. 1780 – American Revolution: British Major John Andre is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold’s change of sides. 1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Three entries by Meriwether Lewis during the expedition: “The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.”
“Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.”
“The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.”
1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
1911 – Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department 1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael, France to Bizerte, Tunisia). 1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens uptown. 1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board. 2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides. Births
1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (d. 1294)
1861 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (d. 1942)
1889 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist and publisher, co-founded The New Republic (d. 1974) Deaths
1508 – Beatrice of Naples, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1457)
1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1856) credits include wikipedia and other internet sources
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RiverWatch
Cruise Ships in New York Harbor
Arrivals & Departures
Many ships pass Lower Manhattan on their way to and from the Midtown Passenger Ship Terminal. Others may be seen on their way to or from piers in Brooklyn and Bayonne. Stated times, when appropriate, are for passing the Colgate clock in Jersey City, New Jersey, and are based on sighting histories, published schedules and intuition. They are also subject to tides, fog, winds, freak waves, hurricanes and the whims of upper management.
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Monday, September 23
Seven Seas Navigator
Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 5:30 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City
Tuesday, September 24
AIDAdiva
Outbound 6:30 pm; Boston, MA/Portland ME/Halifax, NS/Quebec City/Montreal
Caribbean Princess Inbound 6:30 am (Brooklyn); outbound 7:00 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City
Norwegian Dawn Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; New England/Canada
Wednesday, September 25
Disney Magic
Inbound 6:45 am; outbound 4:30 pm; Bermuda Thursday, September 26
Anthem of the Seas
Inbound 6:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 4:00 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes
Sapphire Princess Outbound 7:30 pm; Transatlantic (New England/Canadian Maritimes/Southampton, UK)
Friday, September 27
Adventure of the Seas
Inbound 5:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 3:00 pm; Maine/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City
Oceania Riviera Inbound 5:15 am; outbound 6:00 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City/Montreal
Saturday, September 28
AIDAluna
Inbound 7:15 am; in port overnight New England/Canadian Maritimes
Silver Wind Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 6:30 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City/Montreal
Sunday, September 29
Carnival Sunrise
Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; New England/Canada Canadian Maritimes/Maine
Scenic Eclipse Inbound 7 am (Brooklyn); outbound 5 pm; Poughkeepsie, NY/U.S. East Coast/Bahamas
Zuiderdam Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 8:30 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City
Many ships pass Lower Manhattan on their way to and from the Midtown Passenger Ship Terminal. Others may be seen on their way to or from piers in Brooklyn and Bayonne. Stated times, when appropriate, are for passing the Colgate clock in Jersey City, New Jersey, and are based on sighting histories, published schedules and intuition. They are also subject to tides, fog, winds, freak waves, hurricanes and the whims of upper management.
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If They Went Any Slower, They’d Slip Into Reverse
City Transportation Study Finds That Lower Manhattan Bus Service Is Among Most Sluggish in Five Boroughs
The annual New York City Mobility Report, produced by the City’s Department of Transportation, contains two data points that will come as no surprise residents of Lower Manhattan. The first of these is that the median speed for Downtown bus service ranks among the slowest of any community in the five boroughs. And the second is that this creeping pace is, if anything, getting creepier. To read more…
Matthew Fenton
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Remembrance of Things Aghast
Residents and Local Leaders Recall 18 Septembers Ago
A panel of residents and local leaders participated in a panel discussion at the South Street Seaport, hosted by the Howard Hughes Corporation and moderated by CNBC’s Contessa Brewer, who lives in Lower Manhattan.
Matthew Fenton
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Cass Gilbert and the Evolution of the New York Skyscraper
by John Simko
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