In the News: The Battery Park Carousel Is Delayed

sea creature4••• Updates from the Battery Conservancy in the Downtown Post NYC: Battery Park’s SeaGlass carousel won’t open till the fall, at the soonest, and “the bikeway along Battery Place and the Town Green on the north side of the park should be done by early fall […] but the east side bikeway is another matter.” Above: A rendering of the carousel (more here).

••• Former NYPD officer Oscar Smith, who owns O-Diesel gym on White Street, says that he was racially taunted (and somewhat threatened) by other members of the force’s scuba-diving unit. —New York Times

••• Tribeca Trib attended the Bogardus Plaza public meeting: “A selected revised design is expected to be submitted to Community Board 1 followed by a cycle of reviews with city agencies. The goal is to start construction in the summer of 2016 and complete the project a year later.”

••• “A lawyer who lives in Gateway Plaza [in Battery Park City] is assembling a group of tenants in the giant rental complex, which has been plagued by complaints about poorly insulated windows, inefficient climate-control units, inaccurate electrical meters, and exorbitant monthly bills for heating and cooling, to negotiate a satisfactory resolution or else sue the landlord.” —Broadsheet

••• “Developer Bill Rudin is plotting the redevelopment of 55 Broad St. into a new, modern mixed-use tower [including hiring] FXFOWLE to research the feasibility of redeveloping the current 35-story, 402-feet-tall office structure into a 53-story, 742 feet-tall mixed-use building.” —New York Post

••• A Crain’s article on niche perfumers includes a mini-profile of Sue Phillips’s custom-fragrance shop on Franklin, Scenterprises.

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