One World Trade Center survives small blaze Wooden decking supporting the 89th floor of One W.T.C. caught fire shortly after dawn on Sat., June 2, according to an Associated Press report. According to the news report, the Fire Department of New York (F.D.N.Y.) received the emergency call at 7:15 that morning and rushed to the construction [...]
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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="Photo By Terese Loeb Kreuzer" align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit]BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | On May 9, William C. Thompson Jr., chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, sent a letter to New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo tendering his resignation effective Friday, May 11. Thompson had been chairman of the B.P.C.A. since March 2010, when he was [...]
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[media-credit name="Terese Loeb Kreuzer" align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Downtown Express photos by Terese Loeb Kreuzer Margaret Kittredge, a designer at Bloom, the high-end flower and lifestyle store that opened on March 19 in the passageway between Goldman Sachs headquarters and the Conrad hotel. BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Bloom opens in Goldman Sachs alley: A high-end flower [...]
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[media-credit name="Photo by Terese Loeb Kreuzer" align="alignleft" width="300"][/media-credit] Martha Gallo BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Martha Gallo, 54, head of global compliance and regulatory management for JPMorgan Chase, was just appointed to the Battery Park City Authority board of directors. She has lived in Battery Park City for almost 30 years. Why did you move [...]
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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | In an op-ed in the Daily News on Sunday, Feb. 19, New York State Senator Daniel Squadron proposed a game-changing plan for the Battery Park City Authority. Battery Park City is now 40 years old, observed Squadron, and has matured from empty landfill in the Hudson River to a community [...]
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[media-credit name="Downtown Express photo by Terese Loeb Kreuzer " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Pier A in Battery Park City is undergoing a major renovation. BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee had several items to discuss at its monthly meeting on Dec. 6, but the elephant in the room was the Battery [...]
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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Two former presidents of the Battery Park City Authority wrote letters to William C. Thompson, Jr., the current chairman, and to the board of directors protesting the abrupt layoffs of 19 people on Nov. 9, but neither Thompson nor Gayle Horwitz, president of the Authority, has responded. James Cavanaugh, who [...]
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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Few people showed up last week for the first of what Battery Park City Authority president Gayle Horwitz said would be quarterly Town Hall meetings to discuss neighborhood issues. On Nov. 17, fewer than 100 people were in the auditorium of P.S. 276 to hear Horwitz and other B.P.C.A. officials [...]
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No ice: On June 10, the Battery Park City Authority issued an R.F.P. (request for proposals) for an ice skating rink but there were no bidders. “Staff will continue to have discussions with rink operators about how this might work next winter,” said Battery Park City Authority president Gayle Horwitz. She speculated that after the [...]
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