According to a discussion at a summer meeting of the Battery Park City Authority(BPCA) board, there may yet be an opportunity to revise the most controversial aspect of the plan to build resiliency measures in Wagner Park, but the potential scope of such modification appears to be limited. At the July 24 BPCA board meeting,…
Month: September 2018
Responding to the Responders
A new State law, sponsored by Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou, which extends health benefit for first responders to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo last Friday. Ms. Niou said, “the attacks left a profound scar on Lower Manhattan and all of New York. We remain forever…
Every Breath You Take
The mild temperature last weekend enticed you into turning off the air conditioner and keeping the windows open for the first time in recent memory. And that let in the sound on Sunday afternoon that you should have been expecting, but weren’t prepared for. First came the sirens, dozens of them, followed by bleating insistent…
Bridge of Sighs
At the September 5 meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1), engineer Matt Krenek announced that the long-awaited West Thames pedestrian bridge will not open until the second half of 2019. Mr. Krenek, who works for Skanska USA (the outside firm managing the project), explained that, “we’ve obviously been working…
Today in History September 7
1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time…
A Parish of Plutocrats
The good news: Local rents have come down over the last 12 months. The bad news:Northern Battery Park City is still the most expensive place in America to rent an apartment. This according to a study by the RentCafe real estate blog, which finds that the average rent in the 10282 zip code (which covers…