Tag: Letters to the Editor

To the editor:
In regard to Mr. Goodkind’s letter in the April 28 BroadsheetDAILY that suggests BPC should become part of New York City:With corruption appearing to ooze out in many directions from the Mayor’s office, why would anyone want to place Battery Park City under the city’s control?

A far better solution would be to increase local representation on the BPCA board; given all the neighborhood concern, it seems probable that this will eventually happen.

Ironically, Mr. Goodkind’s letter appears directly below the Broadsheet article which discusses downtown construction and includes this quote, “Seven weeks ago, four elected officials  representing Lower Manhattan wrote to City Hall for…oversight of construction in Lower Manhattan. They have yet to receive the courtesy of a reply”.

Why in the world would we want to subject our community to the unresponsiveness or worseof City Hall?

Gunnar Peterson

LETTERS

To the editor: I have been following with interest the series of letters regarding our ongoing South End Avenue / West Thames Street Study, and encourage readers to keep the input coming. The Battery Park City community is never wanting for ideas about how to make the neighborhood even better, and this has been no...

Letters

Dear Editor Guards are stationed on the plaza outside the Wintergarden and have been harassing bicyclists and telling us that bicycle riding is not permitted in the plaza. I remember that Brookfield tried this a few years ago and had to stop. One guard ordered me off my bike and when I refused and replied...

Letters

To the editor: Some of the ideas regarding improvements to South End Avenue that were presented at the recent open house are certainly worthy of consideration. However, there’s a great and not too expensive idea that wasn’t included: consolidated newspaper boxes. Several years ago (on 7/3/2012), the Broadsheet published the following letter from Betty Heller:...

Letters

To the editor: So what am I missing here? Was there an Occupy South End Avenue protest in the streets of BPC demanding change recently?  Where is the public outcry demanding the makeover of South End Avenue and filling in the arcades? This seems to be yet another solution in search of a problem, and...
To the editor: Your ongoing coverage of the South End Avenue arcades makes me think of Bologna, the Italian city renowned and beloved for medieval system of covered walkways. An internet search for “Bologna arcades” will yield hundreds of evocative images of the 24 miles of “portici” in the historic center of the city, constructed...

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To the editor, It’s a little difficult to follow the line of thought taken by the PA with regards to the relocation of “The Sphere”. Has there been opposition to it remaining in Battery Park, or is there just a push to bring it closer to the WTC site? The National September 11 Museum and...