By Kim Velsey 1/22 5:15pm

House of Shame

The old place was swanky.

Prison-bound Peter Madoff To Spend Last Days of Freedom In Aptly-named Liberty House

It has a 24-hour doorman and river views, but the real appeal of 377 Rector Place—a building that is about as bland as a luxury tower can be—lies in its name: Liberty House. Particularly if one is about to start a 10-year prison sentence.

The New York Post reports that Peter Madoff and wife Marion have moved into a $3,200-per month one-bedroom rental in the Battery Park City building. For someone who has agreed, as part of plea bargain, to the criminal forfeiture of $143.1 billion, including all real estate and personal property, a rental is definitely the way to go. Read More

By Matt Chaban 5/15/12 12:32pm

battery powered

Yum! (Gothamist)

Does Battery Park City Owe Goldman Sachs a Big Thank You?

Battery Park City. Like the Upper East Side or Mill Basin, it’s the sort of out-of-the-way neighborhood you never visit unless you live there, or maybe there’s a concert going on at the Winter Garden?which feels more like the Financial District anyway, so does it count?

Well, NY1 has a report out about how Battery Park City has finally come into its own, and it is indeed a place worth visiting. Much of the credit is given to Danny Meyer for spicing up the food scene, but really, credit is due Lloyd Blankfein. Read More

By Alexandra Peers 7/29/10 5:26pm

food culture

Danny Meyer Eats Lower Manhattan

The culturally (and culinarily) bereft neighborhood of Battery Park City gets some food cred next year as Danny Meyer announced plans to open yet another Shake Shack in the Wall Street-y area, plus a Blue Smoke and a “yet-to-be-named” fine dining establishment.

This is the 12,000 fifth Shake Shake for Manhattan, joining the Madison Square Read More

By Eliot Brown 4/28/10 2:41am

Operation ‘Project Repo’

In late 2006, as a set of projects calling for hundreds of millions in funds languished in their planning stages, Dan Doctoroff, then deputy mayor, became frustrated.

Operating under the code name “Project Repo,” aides to Mayor Bloomberg’s right-hand man for development drew up a clandestine list of where the city could seize control of Read More