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Savvy Downtowners Critique Redesign of Lower Manhattan Artery
Letters to the Editor
To the editor: The BroadsheetDAILY article by Matthew Fenton on the contract between AlliedBarton and the Battery Park City Authority for the provision of security services throughout the Battery Park City community misstates several key facts about the services the Authority receives in exchange for the monies paid pursuant to the contract. Let us begin by enumerating...
Downtown Alliance Tells Security Personnel to Take a Hike
The Downtown Alliance, a nonprofit organization that strives to improve quality of life in Lower Manhattan, is boosting the pay for its uniformed security officers (and other employees) to a minimum of $15 per hour. This comes at a moment when another Lower Manhattan institution, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has effectively slashed compensation...
Today in History
837 – 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1807 – The U.S. Congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States… from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.” 1814 – Ludwig von Beethoven’s 8th Symphony in F premieres 1854 – Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt...
Letters to the Editor
Governor Cuomo To the Editor: BPCA employees are just the tip of the iceberg of people left out of the Governor’s plan. Although he is getting a lot of PR out of pushing for a $15 minimum wage, yet has not put money in the budget to fund this increase for nonprofit agencies with whom...
Contractual Obligations
The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has doubled the dollar value of contracts that requires approval from its directors, but the board rejected a request by the Authority’s management team to increase this threshold, in some cases, to more than three times its original amount. At the January 27 meeting of the Authority’s board, BPCA...
Today in History
Isabella Goodwin 1562 – In Vassy, France, Catholics massacred over 1,000 Huguenots. 1781 – The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. 1803 – Ohio became the 17th U.S. state. 1867 – Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state. 1869 – Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time 1872 – Yellowstone becomes the first national park 1907 – In New York, the Salvation Army opened an...
