The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) is modifying its ban on residents and other members of the public speaking at Authority board meetings, but not enough to satisfy elected officials and community leaders who have long criticized the policy. At the June 8 meeting of the BPCA’s board, Authority chairman and chief executive officer Dennis...
BPCA board chairman Dennis Mehiel: "If any member of the public, if somebody wants to present written comments to the board, on one of our agenda items, it would be noted and included in the minutes. And that's as far as I think that it's reasonable for us to go."
An unidentified female bicyclist was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver at the corner of West and Chambers Streets on Saturday evening, shortly before 8pm. The driver of the vehicle that allegedly hit the woman reportedly continued driving, but stopped two blocks away, where he was arrested. The New York Police Department (NYPD) said...
The scene at Chambers and West Streets on Saturday night_ shortly after a hit-and-run driver allegedly slammed into a female cyclist (who has yet to be identified) and killed her.
New York prides itself on cutting-edge credentials in more categories than there are lights on Broadway, but in one pecking order Gotham is still stalled forlornly in the Twentieth Century. Rated by the energy efficiency of its buildings, New York is in the middle of the pack among the developed world’s major cities. Bob Schneck,...
VOLKSsHouse, the single-family home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which Mr. Schneck helped to develop. The structure uses 90 percent less energy than a traditional home, generates itself what little power it uses, and was built for less than the cost of similarly sized ordinary house.
New York prides itself on cutting-edge credentials in more categories than there are lights on Broadway, but in one pecking order Gotham is still stalled forlornly in the Twentieth Century. Rated by the energy efficiency of its buildings, New York is in the middle of the pack among the developed world’s major cities. Bob Schneck,...
VOLKSsHouse, the single-family home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which Mr. Schneck helped to develop. The structure uses 90 percent less energy than a traditional home, generates itself what little power it uses, and was built for less than the cost of similarly sized ordinary house.
Lower Manhattan residents can look forward to 12 months more of free tram service, compliments of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) and the Downtown Alliance. At the Tuesday meeting of its board, the Authority allocated $632,000 to support the Downtown Connection, the free shuttle bus that ferries riders between Battery Park City and the...
The 15th annual Dine Around Downtown food festival will be held today (Wednesday, June 8), from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, at 28 Liberty Plaza (enter at Nassau and Liberty Streets). More than 40 restaurants from the length and breadth of Lower Manhattan will come together, hosted by chef, cookbook author, and Food Network star...
