The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) and its parks organization have partnered with the sociology faculty at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) to analyze how many people utilize the open spaces within the community, where they come from, and why. Formally titled the “Battery Park City Parks Count and User Survey,” the project aims...
Work seems to have ground to a halt in recent weeks at the site of the new West Thames pedestrian bridge, which has been under construction since November, 2016, although this appears to be a temporary hiatus. The span is being partially funded by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), but its construction is being...
Earlier this week, there appeared to be a single worker at the construction site for the West Thames bridge, and no significant activity -- a situation that has been the norm since mid-February. But officials at the Economic Development Corporation, which is overseeing the project, say that the bridge remain on-budget and within its most recent schedule, which calls for the span to open by the end of this year.
I was one of more than 500 students from Lower Manhattan schools who left our classrooms at 10:00 am on Wednesday morning and assembled in the streets outside to raise our voices in grief and protest, on the one-month anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida that ended 14 young lives. At my school,...
Students from Millennium High School gather at Counties Slip and release 14 balloons, one for each of students murdered in Parkland, Florida one month ago.
Some sections of Battery Park City are effectively invisible to the City’s 311 service and complaint hub, which fielded 36 million requests in 2016 alone. According to a presentation by Lucian Reynolds at the March 6 meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1), several areas of New York City that...
The City's 311 system appears to field relatively few complaints and requests for service (represented by yellow circles) from Battery Park City,relative to the rest of Lower Manhattan. But this may be a function of a jurisdictional ambiguity that purges such inquiries from data archives.
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) has recruited Lili Chopra to join the organization as its new executive director for cultural programs, grants and services. She is slated to become part of an unusual dual-leadership team, in which she will share authority with Diego S. Segalini, currently LMCC’s interim executive director, who will fill the...
Among the LMCC projects Lili Chopra will oversee is the annual River To River Festival, which brings live performances to dozens of Lower Manhattan venues each summer.
Four sculptures commissioned in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as part of the former Catholic Memorial to September 11 in Battery Park City, are slated to move to a new home in Tribeca. Saint Michael The statues, by acclaimed sculptor John Collier, were once part of the Saint Joseph Chapel,...
St. Peter's Church, in Tribeca, where four sculptures from the recently shuttered Saint Joseph Chapel in Battery Park City, are slated to be relocated, at the top of the front steps.
