By Staff 11/09/06 3:24pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday


A new BP condo

  • It will take $310 million to build a 152-unit condo south of Battery Park City. On the plus side, the building may get a “platinum rating” from the Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. One block away, the Ritz-Carlton is shaking in its un-green (but expensive) Read More

    • By Daisy Carrington 11/06/06 12:00am

    Countdown to Bliss

    Demetria Collins and Joshua Irwin

    Met: July 2005

    Engaged: Oct. 2, 2006

    Projected Wedding Date: June 3, 2007

    If the ring fits, you must get hitched! Joshua Irwin, 34, a personal injury attorney at the Cochran Firm, founded by the late Johnnie Cochran, is betrothed to Demetria Collins, 27, an urban planner for Manhattan Borough Read More

    By Staff 10/17/06 8:30am

    Tuesday: Brooklyn Oil, the Green Terminator, Naked Maggie?


    Arnold salutes NYC? [Deider]

  • Schwarzenegger has taken Mayor Bloomberg into his warm, shapely bosom–but it’s Governor Pataki that Arnold takes to see Battery Park City’s Solaire, the green 27-story tower finished in 2003. (NY Times)
  • The Brooklyn Paper officially apologizes for their semi-nude photo of Maggie Gyllenhaal: “Its placement on Page One was Read More

    • By Staff 10/03/06 6:09pm

    Events for October 3-4, 2006

    Tonight, George and Libby Pataki will host a reception for Jeanine Pirro at the Marriott Eastside Hotel.

    Tomorrow, Shelly Silver speaks at the Association for a Better New York Breakfast at the Ritz Carlton New York-Battery Park.

    The U.S. Court of Appeals will hear an argument from lawyers representing a Muslim man who is suing Read More

    By Staff 9/29/06 5:45pm

    Events for September 30-October 2, 2006

    September 11th family members and rescue and recovery workers walk from Battery Park to Ground Zero for the 5th annual WTC We Remember Walk.

    John Faso attends the Congress of Racial Equality Festival in Union Square before heading over to the Yonkers River Festival.

    The Red Cross holds a forum on the basics of Read More

    By Staff 8/17/06 3:00pm

    Ringler’s Letter

    So we got a copy of Port Authority Executive Director Ken Ringler’s letter that Bill Thompson found so “inappropriate and offensive.” Was it maybe Ringler suggesting that Thompson was “suffering from serious misinformation with regard to the Port Authority’s financial commitment to Ground Zero” which set the City Comptroller off?

    The whole thing, Read More

    By Staff 8/16/06 6:33pm

    Comptroller Can’t Stay Away from Ground Zero

    Time was, the Governor handled, or tried to handle, matters down at Ground Zero. Next came the Mayor, and now it’s City Comptroller Bill Thompson! It turns out the Port Authority had asked to get a hand-out from Battery Park City revenues, which Thompson helps to oversee, to cover redevelopment costs at the World Trade Read More

    By Staff 7/20/06 3:05pm

    Goldman to Buy Embassy Suites B.P.C.?

    According to Downtown Express, Goldman Sachs is negotiating with Embassy Suites to buy its 453-room hotel in Battery Park City. A lawyer for Goldman wrote a letter to Community Board 1 saying that an agreement would be signed by tomorrow, with a closing a month later.

    A DE source, noting that the building Read More

    By Staff 6/02/06 6:00pm

    Events for June 3-5, 2006

    On Saturday, New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement will rally outside of the Mexican Consulate for the nationwide “Hands Along the Border” protest against illegal immigration.

    Same-sex marriage proponents march across the Brooklyn Bridge and rally in Battery Park.

    Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn host a benefit concert at Hanson Place Central United Methodist Read More