At its March 22 Open Community Meeting, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) presented an updated version of its plans to fortify Wagner Park, at the community’s southern tip, from future extreme weather events. The area was the site of serious flooding during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. The two centerpieces of the plan are a large...
An architect's rendering of the new plan to provide for resiliency in Wagner Park, which will focus on barriers formed by a new, sloping lawn that rises to a new building, which follows the contour of Battery Place.
Upon learning that Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, and Shinzō Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, read Glenn Plaskin’s 1990 Playboy interview with Donald Trump, we asked for and received a comment from the author, a Lower Manhattan resident, president of the Gateway Tenants Association and celebrity interviewer. Over the years, as Entertainment reporter for...
After State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou held a rally and led fellow-female elected officials in co-signing a letter demanding that the City find a way to keep the “Fearless Girl” statue at Bowling Green, the sculpture has been given a one-year reprieve. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer hosted a joint...
At the March 22 meeting of the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), chairman Dennis Mehiel noted that, “our triple-A rating was reaffirmed. So our credit is better than the U.S. government. Not bad.” He was not exaggerating. On March 17, Fitch Ratings (one of the “big three” credit rating agencies that review...
(Editor’s Note: The passing of David Rockefeller earlier this week struck a personal chord for one person who helped create Lower Manhattan in its modern form — Charles J. Urstadt, who, as State Commissioner of Housing and County Renewal in the 1960s and 70s, founded and built Battery Park City, along with several other government-sponsored...
David Rockefeller presents plans for a revitalized Lower Manhattan in the mid-1960s. Visible at lower left is an early mockup of Battery Park City, while a preliminary rendering of what would become the World Trade Center can be seen in the upper left. Both were projects that Mr. Rockefeller championed.
At its Wednesday board meeting, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) shared the preliminary findings of its two-year resiliency study, conducted by consulting firm Parsons Transportation, as part of an effort to formulate plans that will make the community more resistant to future extreme weather events, such as 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, which flooded much of...
Gwen Dawson, the Battery Park City Authority's vice president for real property: "We are projecting in the future a more severe storm event, with inundation throughout Battery Park City."
