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In the News: School Overcrowding Task Force
••• Sheldon Silver “announced he intends to continue to run his School Overcrowding Task Force, a group he started nearly eight years ago. The next meeting of the group, which had been on hiatus since his January arrest, is scheduled for April 15.” —DNAinfo
••• As expected, Little Park gets reviewed by the New York Times: “Anyone who has faced down the unwelcoming committee at the door of Locanda Verde, or showed up on time at Lafayette only to be sent to the bar, or waited on the Bowery to get into Bar Primi, will appreciate the more hospitable greeting at Little Park.”
••• Bâtard made the James Beard Award finalists for best new restaurant. —Eater
••• Curbed checks out the Seaport home of Ben Tuliebitz, Director of Team Operations for the New York Yankees.
••• “Two thirds of all condominium apartments in Battery Park City’s northern section are owned by investors or developers, rather than by the people who live in them,” according to a website called SocialExplorer.com. —Broadsheet UPDATE: See comments.
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Two of three “Condos” cited by the Broadsheet Story are in fact RENTAL Towers. Liberty Luxe and Liberty Green are failed Condominiums which were withdrawn form the market during the Great Recession and returned as luxury rentals. Once you back out the almost 500 apartments from the 735 cited in the article, you actually have a very healthy owner occupancy rate. I believe this story should be retracted.
The Broadsheet article on the condominiums is curious because it seems to include Liberty Luxe and Liberty Green in its list of condominiums — and these two buildings are rentals.
Broadsheet needs to check their facts. Riverhouse is currently the only condo in northern bpc.
I’ve already asked them to issue a retraction of the entire story.
The Broadsheet, unfortunately, has become the backup band for downtown’s chorus of like-minded elected officials and gadflies. Nothing they say gets contested.
I take everything I read in the Broadsheet with a “grain of salt”. I have found their “articles” to be consistently inaccurate. It is a shame that many residents believe it is a newspaper and that what they print is accurate and fact checked. i used to email the editor when i found errors, but there are just too many.
They issued a “Correction” rather than a full blown contraction, which is what I suggested and what they should have done. The reality is that 80% of Condos in Northern BPC are actually owner occupied rather than the 5% the Broadsheet article and Tom Goodkind’s phony “Analysis” presented.