About Matthew Fenton

Where Affordability Is in the Eye of the Beholder Moderate Income Rentals in Tribeca for Those Earning a Quarter of a Million Per Year Apartments at this luxury Tribeca building may be available to qualified applicants at less than one-half of market rents, but still-significant costs. A waiting list for apartments in a luxury complex […]

Albany Wants to Keelhaul Advertising Barges State Lawmakers Bark ‘Belay That’ to Water-Borne Marketing Messages The advertising barges operated by Ballyhoo Media have become the focus of proposed ban by State legislators. The ubiquitous advertising barges that have become anathema for Lower Manhattan residents over the past year have attracted hostile attention from members of […]

How to Counteract a Cataract BPCA to Host Meeting Tonight on Wagner Park Flood Measures A map showing the geographic extent of flood-protection measures contemplated for Battery Park City’s southern perimeter. Tonight (Monday, June 24) the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host the fourth in an ongoing series of public meetings that will determine […]

Very Merry Skerry Ferry Governors Island Passengers Are Going in Style with Launch of New Vessel The new, 132-foot-long ferry to Governors Island will increase capacity to 1,000 visitors per hour. Visitors to Governors Island embarking from Lower Manhattan now have a new way to get to the beloved greensward that has become Downtown’s equivalent […]

Not Ferry Nice Concerns about Crowding and Noise Surround City Hall Plan for New Staten Island Route to Battery Park City The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning to launch in 2020 a new ferry service from Staten Island that will bring to the Battery Park City ferry terminal more than 60 new vessels each […]

Security, in More Than One Sense of the World Back-to-Back Public Meetings Tonight Will Focus on Safety, Resiliency, and Vision The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host a public meeting tonight (Wednesday, June 19) that will invite participants to help shape the community’s future. The discussion, billed as a “collaborative resilience assessment workshop,” will […]

Ground Swell Scant Information about Radical Changes Contemplated for the Battery A view from the water, showing deterioration in both the sea wall beneath the Esplanade, and the timber pile caps that support it. City Hall is keeping mum about plans resiliency plans for the Battery, the historic park at the southern tip of Manhattan, […]

Bionomics Begins at Home BPCA Seeks Green Bond Designation for Upcoming Debt Issue and Plans for Carbon-Neutral Future The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) is beginning to formulate a roadmap for shrinking the community’s environmental impact. At the May 21 meeting of the agency’s board of directors, Authority president Benjamin Jones explained that, “we’re now […]

Radical Cheek Subvertising Campaign Shocks the Conscience, But Not for Long The “#NoKidsInCages” installation on Centre Street, near the pedestrian entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge, shown just as the sun rose on Wednesday morning. On Wednesday morning, two dozen cages fashioned from chain-link fencingappeared on sidewalks at strategic locations around Manhattan and Brooklyn. A pair […]

CB1 Wants to Contravene Convene Local Leaders Raise Concerns about Traffic and Crowding from Planned Events Venue at Brookfield Brookfield Place, where the owners plans to launch an event-hosting facility that will draw crowds of up to 1,000 people. The owners of Brookfield Place, the giant office and retail complex in Battery Park City, are […]