Katherine Powell
Title: MaintenanceTechnician
Favorite BPC Spot:
Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park
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A Brooklyn native, Katherine first joined the Battery Park City Authority in May 2015 as a seasonal maintenance employee, becoming a full-timer a few months later. As a maintenance technician, Katherine helps with cleaning and maintaining our beautiful 36 acres of parks and public space.
Recently, Katherine joined BPCA’s dog waste compost committee for the Authority’s new pilot initiative. This innovative program formally launched yesterday as part of the NYC Climate week in furtherance of BPCA’s environmental responsibility efforts.
Katherine is excited to be part of a great team and asserts that her work with the Authority has “changed her life.” When not helping maintain our parks making BPC a more sustainable environment, she loves to sing, cook, and dance to all types of music. Katherine resides in East New York with her six kids and three grandchildren.
Make sure you stop and say hello to Katherine as you pass by — odds are you’ll find her, she has a big smile on her face and is ready to take on the day!
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BPCA LAUNCHES DOG WASTE COMPOST PILOT AS PART OF NYC CLIMATE WEEK
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As part of its lineup of events in celebration of Climate Week NYC, the Battery Park City Authority announced launch of a dog waste composting program in furtherance of its environmental responsibility efforts. Each of Battery Park City’s three dog runs – at the North End Avenue Island, “Sirius” at Kowsky Plaza, and at the south end of West Thames Park – now has its own collection bin with instructions for dog owners about how to participate. The bins will be emptied and cleaned daily, with waste brought to the BPCA Parks Operations’ central dog waste composting unit.
For more information on BPCA Climate week events click here
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Lawn Openings & Pet Rules
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Fall 2019 PROGRAM & EVENT GUIDE
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EVENTS IN BATTERY PARK CITY PARKS
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Drawing in the Park
(sustainable travel and leisure)
Saturday, September 28
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Wagner Park
Paint in watercolor or use pastels, chalk, and charcoal to capture the magical vistas of the Hudson River and the unique landscape of Wagner Park. An artist/educator will help participants of all levels with instruction and critique. Materials provided.
Only for adults ages 18 and older. For more information click here.
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Outdoor Ed-Ventures: Orienteering
Sunday, September 29
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, Rockefeller Park
Attend a mini lesson and navigate your way around Battery Park City using a compass. Participants will learn to read a map and make a bearing.
This event is free to attend. For more information click here.
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Outdoor Ed-Ventures: Rocks & Knots
Saturday, October 5
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Rockefeller Park
Climb on! Challenge yourself and ascend the colorful Klimez Walls along the Hudson River. Learn how to execute essential knots at our tying tables and try your luck in a knot tying race against Parks Programming team members.
This event is free to attend. For more information click here.
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Dockappella
Sunday, October 6
1:00 – 3:30 PM, Wagner Park
Join us for an autumn celebration of intricately woven harmonies along the Hudson River. Get inspired by the vocal stylings of the finest college a cappella groups in the Northeast. Six ensembles will showcase their pitch-perfect vocal renditions from a diverse mix of musical genres. Bring a blanket, a picnic lunch and enjoy the music with New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty as backdrop!
This event is free to attend. For more information click here.
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Public Art & Garden Tour: BPC Landscape as Art
Sunday, October 6
2:00 PM, South Cove
Join Landscape Architect and Horticulturist Nancy Seaton for a thought-provoking tour investigating how landscapes are often the receptacle of art– the context within which sculpture is placed. Explore how the landscapes of Battery Park City is the art, in places such as South Cove and Teardrop Park. Discuss how basic principles of design and conceptual thinking transcend media, and the phenomenal elements that are especially well expressed through landscape.
This event is free to attend. For more information click here.
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Saturday Morning Show
Saturdays, September 21 Thru December 14
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Brookfield Place, Hudson Eats
Bring the family down for weekly performances by magicians, musicians, storytellers, and more!
This event is free to attend. For more information click here
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Monica Bill Barnes & Company
Thursdays, October 21 Thru Sunday, October 6
7:00 – 8:15 PM, Brookfield Place, Waterfront Plaza
Monica Bill Barnes & Company, “the most imaginative dance company I have ever experienced” (Vice), turns our attention to the otherwise lost moments that add up into our days with their new show, Days Go By. Their self assigned mission to bring dance where it doesn’t belong has lead them to throw weekly office parties turned dance shows in their long running Happy Hour, choreographed workouts in the beloved The Museum Workout at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and now a new piece for Arts Brookfield that captures those last few moments of fight we have in us as the sun sets behind the Hudson River and we wonder what the day has delivered.
This event is free to attend. For more information click here.
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Documenting LGBTQ History & Culture through Poetry and the Arts
Tuesday, October 1
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
10 River Terrace
Against the backdrop of our Gay New York: Walt Whitman to the Present exhibit, this panel discussion and multimedia presentation brings together a multigenerational roster of poets and artists to discuss their work and the role of the arts in shaping memory and crystallizing our understanding of our times.
Admission Free and open to the public. For more information click here.
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EVENTS AT THE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM
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Halloween Costume Workshop
Saturday, September 28
10:30 – 11:45 AM
39 Battery Place
Searching for Halloween inspiration? Just look up! Kids will get ideas from our models of skyscrapers to dress as their favorite towers, whether it’s the Chrysler Building or an original design. A paper-bag shirt for the body of the building, paired with a decorated hat elaborate enough to match even the most special spires, make a unique costume!
Cost is $5 per child. Members are free.
Ages 6+. RSVP required. RSVP to programs@skyscraper.org or call 212-945-6324.
For more information click here.
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