Letters Department – February 12th

To the editor: Every year I read about the vast sum for “affordable” housing that Battery Park City’s unique revenue sources provide, this year a record $167 million. But never has this sum ever been tracked to specific affordable housing projects by anyone. Scott Stringer promised this, as did other electeds. Certain projects have been...

Pushing Back to Bounce Back

Lower Manhattan may be in danger of becoming the poor stepchild of New York City disaster and resiliency planning. Out of $4.21 billion in federal Community Development Block Grants for Disaster Relief (CDBG-DR) awarded to the City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, only some $10 million (or less than one-quarter of one percent) has...

Plaza Sweet

The Downtown Alliance is proposing to eliminate a two-lane exit ramp from the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and combine a pair of small Financial District plazas that it separates into a single, larger public square. One of the two spaces, Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza, is located on the north side of the exit ramp, and surrounded...

Financial District Committee Meets Tomorrow

AGENDA: Governors Island – Update by Leslie Koch, President of the Trust for Governors Island 68-74 Trinity Place/103-109 Greenwich Street, application pursuant to section 72-21 of the Zoning Resolution for a Board of Standards and Appeals variance to facilitate the development of a Parish House and residential tower- Resolution 55 Broadway, application for renewal of...
Subway Station

Halloween Puppy Parade Thanks and Acknowledgements

The Battery Park City Dog Association would like to thank the following people and businesses for participating and donating to our 13th Annual BPC Halloween Puppy Parade on Oct. 25th: Bobby Concister of Le Pet Spa, our Co-Host for 13 years, and for providing the top prizes; ABC Blooming Nails; Battery Park City Pharmacy; Deb...
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Sailing and the North Cove Marina

To the Editor: cc: Commodore Michael Fortenbaugh We are writing in support of the North Cove Marina Management of the North Cove. We are a new family to Battery Park City. One of the primary reasons we moved to the area was the beautiful, accessible and family-friendly North Cove waterfront and the Manhattan Yacht Club’s...
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