One focus of the “Open Community Meeting” that the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host tonight (Wednesday, March 22), from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant) will be the BPCA’s ongoing analysis of local resiliency, in preparation for measures to...
Committee member Tom Goodkind (right): "It would be a great idea to protect residents. I have no idea why you're concentrating on Wagner Park. An equal amount of time, much more time, needs to be spent on protecting the residents."
The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host an “Open Community Meeting” tomorrow night (Wednesday, March 22), from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant). Residents are urged to attend, hear a presentation from Authority staff on their vision for the community,...
At an April, 2016 session of the quarterly Open Community Meetings hosted by the Battery Park City Authority, State Senator Daniel Squadron speaks about the importance of gaining representation for residents on the Authority's board, as BPCA chair Dennis Mehiel and president Shari Hyman listen.
State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou led a coalition of elected officials representing Lower Manhattan in a rally on Friday afternoon to push for “Fearless Girl” — a bronze statue of a young female striking a jaunty, audacious pose that was recently installed in front of the “Charging Bull” sculpture at Bowling Green — to remain...
Female elected officials_ including State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou (left) and City Council member Margaret Chin (center), flanked by school-age girls, strike the "Fearless" pose of the bronze statue that was recently installed at Bowling Green, as State Senator Daniel Squadron looks on. They are part of a coalition that wants the City to make the display of the "Fearless Girl" statue at this location permanent.
The Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) has passed a resolution giving a qualified endorsement to a law proposed by State Senator Daniel Squadron, which (if enacted) would require that Lower Manhattan residents be appointed to the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), while also rigorously questioning the Senator’s representative...
Ninfa Segarra, chair of CB1's Battery Park City Committee: "Senator Squadron has again introduced a bill that regards the composition of the Battery Park City Authority board and the issue about residents being put on the board."
The social commentator Cleveland Amory once posited a corollary to Gresham’s Law (the economics axiom that debased coinage drives sound money out of circulation, because folks horde the latter while continuing to offer the funny money for payment), but his version was about fashionable addresses. It went something like this: artists come first, setting up...
Natalya Nesterova's painting on view at Hall Bromm Gallery,
one the oldest galleries in Tribeca
Community Board 1 (CB1), the body that serves as the official voice of Lower Manhattan in dealing with elected officials and government agencies, is undergoing a major reorganization. Anthony Notaro, who took over as chair last summer, announced at CB1’s February meeting that he planned to eliminate three of the Board’s four geographic committees, which...
Community Board 1 chair Anthony Notaro plans a major reorganization
of the board's committee structure.
