Tag: The Broadsheet Daily

Sight Unseen

The management team at the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) asked members of the agency’s board to approve more than 100 pages of financial statements and regulatory filings that only one of them had read, because the documents were legally required to be submitted to State overseers 48 hours later. At the January 27 meeting...

Today in History: February 3

1690 – First paper money in America issued in the colony of Massachusetts 1740 – Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily 1882 – Circus owner P.T. Barnum buys his world famous elephant, Jumbo. Jumbo was born in East Africa in late 1960, was captured two years later and brought...
Cover of October 1920 issue of Popular Science, by Norman Rockwell

The Deal of the Sentry

A discussion at the January 27 meeting of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) board aired concerns about the wages paid to security guards, and whether they meet standards set by the Cuomo administration, which controls the Authority. Benjamin Jones, the BPCA’s vice president for administration, began the discussion by asking the board to approve...
BPCA chair and CEO Dennis Mehiel recounts a recent call from the office of Governor Andrew Cuomo, asking about appointments to the Authority's board

Civic Boosters

The catalyst that first brought the Financial District community together in 2013 was opposition to a City proposal to move a probation office to 66 John Street says Patrick Kennel, who has lived in the neighborhood since 2007. Although residents lost a lawsuit aimed at preventing the move, the controversial proposal, “was just a reporting...

Battery Park City Parks Annual Art Exhibition

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Annual Art Exhibition will have an opening reception on the corner of 2nd place and Battery Place on Sunday, January 31 from 1 pm to 3pm. This annual art exhibit features art created by all ages of the public that are in BPC Parks free programs. Although the opening reception...

Spate of 'Super-Tall' Towers Will Swell Count of Lower Manhattan Households

In the years to come, Lower Manhattan may become a thicket of “super-tall” apartment buildings, if present trends continue. The local movement toward the stratosphere began in 2008, when developer Forest City Ratner began construction of the 76-story tower at Eight Spruce Street. Now known as New York by Gehry, for its star architect, Frank...
The building now being constructed at the corner of Murray and West Streets will rise 62 floors, for a total of 822 feet, and house 139 apartments.