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The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host an “Open Community Meeting” tonight (Tuesday, November 14), from 6:30 to 8:30 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, and...

A Battery Park City resident was struck and injured by a Parks vehicle driving on the sidewalk on the morning of July 13, and had to wait for nearly 30 minutes before ambulances and police could find the location she called into 911. Dominique Galluzzi was walking east along Albany Street on her way to...

A leading housing advocacy organization has completed an exhaustive look at threats to affordability in every community in the five boroughs, and has found that Lower Manhattan ranks among the ten most at-risk neighborhoods, as measured by two key metrics. The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD), an umbrella organization of 100 non-profit affordable...

Anthony Notaro, the chair of Community Board 1 (CB1), has issued a candid warning that area residents may wish to keep in mind heading into tomorrow night’s public meeting of the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) project. At the May 2 meeting of CB1’s Battery Park City Committee, during a discussion of measures planned by...

A bill that would require Governor Andrew Cuomo to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to a majority of the seven seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has passed the New York State Assembly with near-unanimous support. On Tuesday, all 139 members of the lower house of the State legislature who were...