One of Battery Park City’s plushest apartments — a four-bedroom, five-bath duplex penthouse with a 350-square-foot terrace — will be auctioned off later this month, with no minimum opening bid, and no minimum winning bid (also known as a “reserve price”). There’s just one catch: You’ll have to travel to Hong Kong if you want...
The view from the terrace of the penthouse duplex that will be sold to the highest bidder in Hong Kong on June 28
When I first meet Jason Radmacher in the entrance to John Street Methodist Church, I’m struck by two things: his powerful and resonant voice, and the comfort and familiarity he exudes as we walk through the church. I’m expecting him to bring me to a side room for our interview, but instead, he peeks his...
The Downtown Alliance is leading a push to warm up the “frozen zone” surrounding the New York Stock Exchange, a security perimeter that bars most vehicles, slows pedestrians, and generally shreds the fabric of the surrounding streetscape. On May 8, Jessica Lappin, president of the Alliance, led a presentation before the Land Use, Zoning, and...
The area of the Financial District that the Downtown Alliance aims to enhance is bounded by Pine Street on the north, William Street on the east, Beaver Street on the south, and Broadway on the west. These borders roughly correspond to the security zone surrounding the New York Stock Exchange that has remained in effect for more than 15 years.
The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has extended the contract for Perkins Eastman, the consultant that devised the resiliency assessment for Wagner Park, aspects of which have inspired concerns among some community leaders. The firm was hired in 2015 for an initial fee of $238,000. At its May 22 board meeting, the Authority extended this...
An architect's rendering of the new building slated to replace the Wagner Park Pavilion, as part of a larger resiliency plan designed to harden the park against future flood waters. Some community leaders feel this structure is unnecessarily large and obtrusive, fearing that it will obstruct views much prized by local residents.
The architects of multiple residential buildings in Battery Park City have settled claims brought by United States prosecutors that their work on one of them violated the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) by failing to include adequate accommodations for disabled residents. SCLE Architects are credited with working on the designs of at least three buildings...
Federal prosecutors allege that narrow doorways and small bathrooms at the Verdesian rental building in northern Battery Park City had a discriminatory impact upon disabled people.
The Waterfront Alliance released the region’s first-ever Harbor Scorecard during the Rally for Our Waterfronts on the steps of City Hall on the first day of hurricane season, Thursday, June 1. The Scorecard evaluates and scores each of New York’s 59 community districts by their waterfront access, water quality, and coastal resiliency. The release comes...
Waterfront Alliance president Roland Lewis: "The next Sandy is coming, I repeat, the next Sandy is coming."
