"We partnered with BPCA to host our Downtown Dance Festival at Wagner Park. This magnificent location with views of the NY Harbor was the perfect backdrop for the Festival’s stage. It was a perfect collaboration."

Any general inquiries regarding Battery Park City Authority or Battery Park City Parks may be submitted directly to info.bpc@bpca.ny.gov. If you are a member of press or reporter on deadline, please contact:

Nick Sbordone
Vice President of Communications & Public Affairs
press@bpca.ny.gov
(212) 417-3194

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• AM-New York: “9/11 memorials in NYC: Where to honor victims of the terrorist attacks,” September 6, 2018
• Curbed NY: “The 35 best things to do in New York City with kids,” August 21, 2018
• The New York Times: “Battery Park City: A Resort-Like Community Built on Landfill,” August 15, 2018
• NBC New York Live: “How to See Free Art In NYC,” July 11, 2018
• The Broadsheet: “BPCA Hires Designer to Formulate Resiliency Measures for Ball Fields and Community Center,” June 28, 2018
• Tribeca Citizen: “The Birth of Battery Park City,” June 28, 2018
• The New York Times: “Receiving the Summer Solstice, the Swedish Way,” June 25, 2018
• T: The New York Times Style Magazine: “The Woman Who Harvested a Wheat Field Off Wall Street,” June 14, 2018
• Tribeca Trib: “Irish Hunger Memorial Is Setting for Fiddling, Dancing from Emerald Isle,” June 11, 2018
• Downtown Post NYC: “Poems for a Rainy Day,” April 24, 2018
• Spectrum News NY1: “Irish Hunger Memorial,” March 16, 2018
• Downtown Post NYC: “The Battery Park City Authority as seen by its new president, Benjamin ‘BJ’ Jones,” March 5, 2018
• The Broadsheet: “Sustainability and Safety; Collaboration and Character — 14 Questions for BPCA President Benjamin Jones,” March 1, 2018
• Downtown Express: “Study of BPC parks could reap long-term benefits,” October 5, 2017
• The Broadsheet: “Working in Tandem – CB1 Recommends Bike Safety Measures for Esplanade and Greenway,” September 27, 2017
• The Broadsheet: “Hundreds Drawn to a Free Sample of What the Community Center has to Offer,” September 26, 2017
• The Tribeca Trib: “Battery Park City Authority President to Head WTC Retail for Westfield,” September 14, 2017
• Habitat Magazine: “Everything In the Kitchen Sink,” September 13, 2017
• Downtown Express: “Battery Bark City vs. Fidi fidos!” September 12, 2017
• The Huffington Post: “Watering Around New York City,” September 12, 2017
• The New York Times: “Refugee Youths Build Community in an Embracing Space,” September 9, 2017
• AM-New York: “9/11 memorials in NYC: Where to honor victims of the terrorist attacks,” September 8, 2017
• The New York Times: “Events for Children in NYC This Week,” September 7, 2017
• Curbed NY: “A Piece of Ireland in NYC,” September 5, 2017
• Tribeca Trib: “For Mind and Body, Events and Programs by the Dozens in BPC,” September 1, 2017

• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY RELEASES WINTER 2019 EVENTS CALENDAR
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• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY PRESIDENT JONES, COUNCIL MEMBER CHIN, AND LOCAL SENIORS OPEN NEW BPC COMMUNITY ROOM
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY RELEASES FIRST-EVER COMPREHENSIVE PARKS USER COUNT AND STUDY
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• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY CELEBRATES TEN YEARS OF CLIMATE WEEK NYC WITH PANEL DISCUSSIONS ON EMISSIONS TRADING
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY RELEASES FALL 2018 EVENTS CALENDAR
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• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY ANNOUNCES BOARD LEADERSHIP AND MEMBERSHIP CHANGES, ELEVATION OF PRESIDENT TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY RELEASES SUMMER 2018 EVENTS CALENDAR
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• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH WITH “RAINING POETRY IN BPC”
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• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY INSTALLS EMERGENCY LIFE RINGS ALONG BPC ESPLANADE
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY APPOINTS B.J. JONES AS PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY RELEASES WINTER 2018 EVENTS CALENDAR
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• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY LAUNCHES ELECTRONIC PERMITTING SYSTEM
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY ANNOUNCES NEW PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION AT PIER A PLAZA
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY RELEASES FALL 2017 EVENTS CALENDAR
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• BROOKFIELD AND BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY KICK OFF SUMMER 2017 AT BROOKFIELD PLACE NEW YORK AND THE NORTH COVE MARINA
• MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE & BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY ANNOUNCE FREE MUSEUM MEMBERSHIP FOR BATTERY PARK CITY RESIDENTS
• SUPPORT POURS IN FOR WAGNER PARK REDESIGN EFFORT
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY RELEASES SUMMER 2017 EVENTS CALENDAR
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• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY APPOINTS JANET OZARCHUK AS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY RELEASES WINTER 2017 EVENTS CALENDAR
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• NEW YORK STATE AND CITY PARTNERS, ELECTED OFFICIALS BREAK GROUND ON WEST THAMES STREET PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY INSTITUTES PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AT BOARD MEETINGS
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• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY RELEASES FALL 2016 EVENTS CALENDAR
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY APPOINTS ANNE O’NEILL AS DIRECTOR OF HORTICULTURE, SUSTAINABILITY, AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN
• CITI BIKE PROGRAM LAUNCHES VALET SERVICE IN BATTERY PARK CITY
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY AND ALLIED UNIVERSAL HOST EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS SESSION FOR LOCAL PROPERTY MANAGERS
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY, BROOKFIELD, AND IGY ANNOUNCE COMMUNITY SUMMER SAIL PROGRAM AT NORTH COVE MARINA WITH HISTORIC VESSELS SHEARWATER AND VENTURA
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY ANNOUNCES COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP TO ASSESS BICYCLE USAGE ON BATTERY PARK CITY ESPLANADE AND INSTITUTES DISMOUNT ZONE AT NORTH COVE MARINA
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY HOSTS FIRST-EVER COMMUNITY DAY
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY ANNOUNCES NEW POLICY REGARDING PUBLIC INPUT AT BOARD MEETINGS
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY RELEASES 2016 SUMMER EVENTS CALENDAR
• BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY ANNOUNCES REDUCED PRICING FOR COMMUNITY CENTER AT STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL

• STATEMENT OF BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY PRESIDENT & CEO B.J. JONES ON MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
• STATEMENT OF BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY PRESIDENT & CEO B.J. JONES ON NEW BPCA BOARD APPOINTMENTS
• STATEMENT OF BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY PRESIDENT & COO B.J. JONES ON PRIDE MONTH 2018
• STATEMENT OF BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY ACTING PRESIDENT & COO B.J. JONES ON MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
• STATEMENT OF BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY ACTING PRESIDENT & COO B.J. JONES ON DEDICATION OF THE KOENIG SPHERE
• STATEMENT OF THE BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY ON LOWER MANHATTAN TERRORIST ATTACK
• STATEMENT OF BPCA CHAIRMAN DENNIS MEHIEL ON THE PASSING OF FORMER CHAIRMAN JAMES F. GILL
• STATEMENT OF BPCA PRESIDENT & COO SHARI C. HYMAN ON COMPLETION OF NYC POLICE MEMORIAL ELECTRICAL VAULTS
• STATEMENTS OF DENNIS MEHIEL AND SHARI HYMAN ON MS. HYMAN’S DEPARTURE FROM THE BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY
• STATEMENT OF BPCA PRESIDENT & COO SHARI C. HYMAN ON REOPENING OF IRISH HUNGER MEMORIAL
• STATEMENT OF BPCA PRESIDENT & COO SHARI C. HYMAN ON U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PARIS ACCORD
• STATEMENTS OF SHARI HYMAN AND JANET OZARCHUK ON MS. OZARCHUK’S DEPARTURE FROM THE BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY
• STATEMENTS OF DENNIS MEHIEL AND MARTHA GALLO ON MS. GALLO’S RESIGNATION FROM BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY BOARD
• STATEMENT OF BPCA VICE PRESIDENT OF REAL PROPERTY GWEN DAWSON RE: SOUTH END AVENUE UPDATES
• STATEMENT OF BPCA PRESIDENT & COO SHARI C. HYMAN ON THE RETIREMENT OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER ROBERT SERPICO
• STATEMENT OF BPCA PRESIDENT & COO SHARI C. HYMAN ON OPENING OF LIBERTY PARK AND LIBERTY PARK BRIDGE
• STATEMENT OF BPCA PRESIDENT & COO SHARI C. HYMAN ON RETIREMENT OF HORTICULTURE DIRECTOR ERIC T. FLEISHER
• STATEMENT OF BPCA PRESIDENT SHARI C. HYMAN ON WEST THAMES PARK OPENING

– Award of Merit: Prototype Schools
– Design Excellence Award for the reconstruction of Battery Park
– Design Excellence Award for 286 Reliquaries, 42 Marble Inlay, & Stuyvesant High School
– Design Excellence Award for Rector Gate Battery Park City Esplanade

– U.L.I Award for Excellence for Large Scale Residential Development: Rector Place Neighborhood

– Honoring architects who have used stone with skill and understanding: Police Memorial

– Corporate Energy Mgmt of the Year

– Natl. Urban Design Award:
The Belvedere
– Citation for Excellence in
Urban Design
– Award in Design Excellence:
Police Memorial
– NYC/NYS Award: Tribeca Pointe
– National Honor Award Citation
of Excellence

– Design Award: BPC Open Space Plan
– Design Award: South End Area

– Building Design Award for designing a sustainable and secure world

– 2001 Residential project of the year: Ritz Carlton Hotel and Residences, Downtown New York

– Landmark Award: Master Plan
& Esplanade
– Design Merit Award: Wagner Park
– Design Merit Award: South Cove
– Design Merit Award: Esplanades I & II
– President’s Award: Esplanade

– Philip N. Winslow Award for Design of a Public Space: Wagner Park

– Engineering Excellence Diamond Award: Timber sheeting
Bulkhead Remediation

– Award of Excellence: South Cove
– Int’l Award of Excellence on
the Waterfront