Underground electrical infrastructure powering the Memorial and south side of the North Cove Marina was damaged during Superstorm Sandy. As part of BPCA’s comprehensive storm resiliency efforts, construction of new, above-ground electrical vaults is now complete. Said BPCA President & …
Beginning Monday, September 18, Battery Park City’s Irish Hunger Memorial will be closed for the installation of its final, permanent plantings. The Memorial reopened to the public with temporary plantings in July, after a comprehensive waterproofing and leak remediation project …
BPCA President & Chief Operating Officer Shari C. Hyman will be departing at month’s end. She joined the agency in January 2014. Statement of BPCA Chairman Dennis Mehiel “Answers to the simplest of questions are sometimes the most telling. Is …
BPCA recently installed a curb cut at the westernmost end of 2nd Place near South Cove, enabling direct travel by BPC Parks vehicles between Parks Headquarters and the Esplanade. This modification minimizes the street and sidewalk travel previously required, north …
In June 2016 the Battery Park City Authority, in consultation with Manhattan Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee, announced establishment of a Bicycles Working Group to discuss bicycle use on the BPC Esplanade and develop concepts about how best …
FAVORITE BPC SPOT: Roof of Tribeca Pointe/Liberty Community Garden Trish Burger was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn and later grew up in Huntington, Long Island. As a child she always dreamed of moving back into the big city, and began fulfilling that dream …
NAME: Trish Burger FAVORITE BPC SPOT: Roof of Tribeca Pointe/Liberty Community Garden Trish Burger was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn and later grew up in Huntington, Long Island. As a child she always dreamed of moving back into the big city, and began …
Each year the Pipes & Drums of the Emerald Society, an NYPD fraternal organization of Irish and Irish-American police, conducts its Annual 9/11 Memorial Parade and Ceremony. The parade, which consists of police pipe and drums bands, military marching bands, …
