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		<title>Tire Swing Park: The victim of two feuding bureaucracies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Update: September 8, 2010 
In response to the issues raised by BatteryPark.TV, the DOT spoke with the Community Board last night. The Tire Swing will be replaced. The mud swamp, formerly the grass field, will be repaired by moving some drainage boxes, and the waterfall area in the playground will have its drainage problem addressed.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of BPC by Ed Koch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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October 29
Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York City and former U.S. Congressman, now partner at law firm Bryan Cave LLP, was important in the creation of Battery Park City. BPC sits on manmade land created from the bedrock excavated during the World Trade Center construction. BPC was not converted into inhabitable city land with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the DOT should not be in the landscaping business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Update: DOT to make corrections to Tire Swing Park
August 7, 2010
As a result of the BatteryPark.TV report on the construction flaws and suboptimal management of the lawn of the newly opened $9 Million Tire Swing Park on West Thames Street, the DOT will me rectifying the situation. New drainage pipes will be installed to alleviate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tire Swing Park Ribbon Cutting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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July 1, 2010
The new Tire Swing Park was officially opened today with a ribbon cutting ceremony. While the play area has been open since Memorial Day, the grass lawn was just opened up. Officials from the State DOT, BPCA and CB1 spoke, but no State or City elected officials presented.

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		<title>Mayor Bloomberg admits the stimulus package was wasted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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August 1, 2010
Mayor Bloomberg was on NBC’s Meet the Press today. He made some insightful comments about the ineffective ARRA stimulus package that not many in the press have made. As unemployment remains high, the debate has been whether the nearly $1 Trillion stimulus package worked. That is really a false debate. The money never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kill the Drill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer discusses his “Kill the Drill” campaign to not allow near New York City’s source of water in Upstate NY a water-polluting method of drilling natural gas called hydro-fracture drilling.

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		<title>The new Tire Swing Pork Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 19:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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May 8, 2010
The old “Tire Swing Park” was bulldozed last year over the protests of many families in Battery Park City. It was a park design with natural materials such as wood, sand, grass, etc. Families loved it because it offered rare shade in the summer time, among other reasons.
The new park is almost completed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Vincent’s hospital closure: The first of many across the country?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 17:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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April 7, 2010
St. Vincent’s hospital in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, is closing due to mounting debt and New York State cuts in funding. St. Vincent’s is the last tertiary care catholic hospital in the city. How can a business entity with surplus demand go out of business due to lack of revenue? The answer lies in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coalition to save Tire Swing Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 15:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Battery Pork City</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 05:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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April 13, 2009
The New York Post writes about the corruption scandal of the BPCA

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