FIGHTING FOR THE RECTOR STREET BRIDGE
A CB1 member and BPC resident is fighting to keep the city from tearing down the Rector Street Bridge, which went up in 2002 as a temporary structure and is coming down once the West Thames bridge is open this fall. He’s not alone in his quest. See reporting from The Trib and the Broadsheet.
75 WEST BROADWAY PROGRESS??
New York Yimby reports that 75 West Broadway (aka 65 West Broadway, aka 59-61 Warren Street) at the southeast corner of Warren has a finished concrete slab down in that pit. Is that progress? I still don’t get how the developer will go about taking off the crazy giant braces (James tells us they are called rakers) now holding up Korin’s building at 57 Warren, though I intend to find out. This building has been in the works since 2016, when drawings were first released. There was a stop-work order in January.
SWIMMING ACROSS THE HUDSON
News12 New Jersey has footage and a story about the first-ever legally sanctioned swim across the Hudson, when dozens of Navy SEALs went from Liberty State Park to Battery Park to raise funds for vets. It took them two and a half hours. Kids, don’t try this at home.
FILM FESTIVAL SOLD TO MURDOCH
The LA Times and Bloomberg (take your pick) report that James Murdoch’s (Rupert’s son) firm Lupa Systems has acquired a majority stake in the Tribeca Film Festival from Robert De Niro and partner Jane Rosenthal, who founded it together in 2001. “James Murdoch left his family’s businesses after Walt Disney Co. bought most of 21st Century Fox this year for $71 billion, with his older brother, Lachlan, now running the smaller Fox Corp.”
I fully support the Robert Schneck’s efforts to keep the Rector St Bridge – there needs to be a passage way for that part of Battery Park City as well – what is the downside for keeping both passage ways open?
First step at Warren St is to finish the foundation this fall/winter and thereby stabilize the neighbor. Then they can start removing the rakers. Code requires a 3 inch “seismic gap” between the buildings so that an earthquake does not create a domino effect. The new building will not support the existing building once the new foundation is in, not without a variance from Building Code.
Wow, DeNiro hates Trump yet sold his beloved film festival to the son of the man who made and maintains the illusion of Donald.
FYI, there’s an online petition for this as well https://www.change.org/p/nyc-edc-save-the-rector-street-pedestrian-bridge-from-being-demolished