BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Deal-dining in B.P.C.: Three Battery Park City restaurants are participating in Restaurant Week, offering discounted meals through Fri., Aug. 10. Three-course lunches cost $24.07, and three-course dinners are $35. Tax, tip and beverages aren’t included in the deal. 2 WEST, in the Ritz-Carlton hotel (2 West St.), a member of [...]
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BY Terese Loeb Kreuzer TERESE LOEB KREUZER | B.P.C.A.’s Asphalt Green update deemed inadequate: At Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee meeting on July 3, Matthew Monahan, a spokesperson for the Battery Park City Authority, gave a status report on B.P.C.A. activities but neglected to mention Asphalt Green Battery Park City. C.B. 1 public [...]
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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | New B.P.C.A. board members appointed: On Wed., June 20, the New York State Senate confirmed Dennis Mehiel as the new chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, replacing William Thompson Jr. Mehiel is the chairman, chief executive officer and sole shareholder of the Four M Corporation, one of the largest [...]
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No summer camp at Asphalt Green Battery Park City: There will be no summer day camp at Asphalt Green Battery Park City this summer. According to Christina Klapper, a spokesperson for Asphalt Green, “The Battery Park City Authority determined late last week that it is not feasible to open the facility and run camp before [...]
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Trouble at Gateway Plaza: Every elected official with a toehold in Lower Manhattan showed up at I.S. 276 on Thurs., May 17 for a meeting sponsored by the Gateway Plaza Tenants Association to discuss leaky windows and walls, astronomical electric bills and runaway rents at the oldest residential complex in Battery Park City. With more [...]
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[media-credit name="Downtown Express photos by Terese Loeb Kreuzer " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Over the weekend of May 11, three 250-square-foot cottages were erected on the World Financial Center plaza facing North Cove Marina. Designated “2012 House of the Year” by Country Living magazine, “Room to Spare” cottages have been outfitted as a guest bedroom, an outdoor [...]
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[media-credit name="Downtown Express photos by Terese Loeb Kreuzer " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] On a visit to the Irish Hunger Memorial on May 1, children from Battery Park City met Michael Higgins, the president of Ireland and his wife Sabina (right), who were posing for pictures with Gayle Horwitz (left), president of the Battery Park City Authority, [...]
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[media-credit name="Photo by Terese Loeb Kreuzer" align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] On April 19, around 25 Battery Park City residents and business owners gathered at the Manhattan Yacht Club’s clubhouse, the William Wall, in North Cove Marina to discuss B.P.C.’s annual block party. BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Block party planning: At last year’s 10th annual Battery Park City Block [...]
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Spring/summer menu at Merchants River House: As reliably as the appearance of robins and daffodils in Battery Park City, spring means a revised menu at Merchants River House — the restaurant on the esplanade with two outdoor patios and a great view of the Hudson River. The revised menu partially reflects the desire for lighter, [...]
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Toronto-based artist Katharine Harvey is re-creating a chandelier made from recycled plastic containers in the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center that she first made for Brookfield Place in Toronto. The chandelier will be 21 feet long and 15 feet wide and will hang from the ceiling of the Winter Garden from April 15 [...]
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