Battery Park City resident Tammy Meltzer has completed her six-year term as chair of Community Board 1 and will step down as of this month from the position. When I saw her at The Battery gala earlier in June, she said it was the best job she ever had.

Longtime Tribecan and architect Alice Blank was elected last night.

Tammy started her tenure as chair in July 2020 — certainly a crazy time for the city. With her leadership, CB1 did an amazing job pivoting to online meetings — I know because I have to cover them! And in talking to pals in other parts of the city, CB1 is much more adept and efficient at both covering and posting its meetings. It means all that information that passes through the board is just a lot more accessible.

Tammy was vice chair of the board for eight years before that, as well as chair of the Battery Park City Committee. She is an event planner by trade, and has a consulting firm.

Alice founded her eponymous architecture studio in 1994 and specializes in residential and commercial work. She worked as an architect and urban planner in Cairo and in Neûchatel, Switzerland, and has taught architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning at The Catholic University of America, Hunter College and the University of Pennsylvania.

​She’s been the vice chair of CB1 as well as the chair of the Environmental Protection Committee, and also serves as a member of the board of The Trust for Gov­er­nors Island and The City Club of New York.