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Elected officials and community leaders are reacting to the appointment of two community residents to the board of the Battery Park City Authority(BPCA) by Governor Andrew Cuomo in the last 48 hours of the Albany legislative session that has now ended. In the final days of the session, Mr. Cuomo designated Martha Gallo, an insurance...

More than 500 students at the Battery Park City School fanned out in front of their building on Battery Place on Tuesday to cover the sidewalk with messages of peace. The event, called Care Squares for Peace, is part a three-year old tradition at the school, which began in response to the 2016 mass shooting...

Governor Andrew Cuomo has appointed a second local resident to serve on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). Anthony Kendall, who lives in southern Battery Park City, was nominated by Mr. Cuomo as a new board member on Tuesday, and confirmed by the State Senate late Wednesday evening. Mr. Kendall is the chairman and...

Dennis Mehiel, chairman and chief executive officer of the Battery Park City Authority (BCPA) since 2012, announced at Tuesday’s meeting of the agency’s board that he is stepping down. “This will be my last board meeting at the Battery Park City Authority,” he began near the meeting’s conclusion. “I’ve been here six years, and I’ve...

Spend tonight (Tuesday, June 19) exploring the City’s history and heritage at the fifth annual Night at the Museums, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm.The event, part of the 2018 River to River Festival, will give locals and tourists alike the chance to see Lower Manhattan’s diverse range of cultural institutions and historical sites — all...

A bill sponsored by State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou, which aims to enhance the benefits available responders and rescue workers made sick by exposure to environmental toxins after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has passed her house of legislature. The bill, if enacted, will extend through the year 2022 the deadline by which...