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NEWSLETTER APRIL 30 – May 11

BPC PEOPLE

Aline Reynolds
Title: Technical Communications Manager 

Favorite BPC Spot: Pier A

Aline grew up on Long Island and moved to New York City for college. With a passion for cities and the written word, she began her career as a newspaper journalist covering urban affairs for the local Lower Manhattan papers, the Downtown Express and the Tribeca Trib. Her coverage of the post-9/11 revitalization efforts in Lower Manhattan – including the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, the rise and fall of Occupy Wall Street, and the recovery and resiliency initiatives following Superstorm Sandy – triggered in her a fascination with city planning.

Aline then left New York to pursue a degree in urban planning at Harvard University, with the dream of returning to her beloved Lower Manhattan on the planning side. So when offered a position as Technical Communications Manager for the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), she felt like she was coming full circle. At BPCA, Aline drafts and edits a range of technical documents, including memoranda and Requests for Proposals, with the goal of clearly conveying the scope of work involved in BPC projects undertaken by urban designers and engineers.

“I really enjoy coming to work every day and collaborating with such a talented, friendly group of people,” she says. As for subject matter, Aline is especially excited about BPCA’s four-part resiliency initiative. “I really appreciate the Authority’s unwavering dedication to protecting this cherished neighborhood from future storms and sea-level rise. It has its priorities right!” 

In her spare time, Aline enjoys attending classical music concerts and discovering new nooks in Central Park. Her hobbies also include piano, frisbee, and tennis.

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SUMMER  2019 PROGRAM & EVENT GUIDE
SUMMER  2019 PROGRAM & EVENT GUIDE
Has been translated into 6 languages
Spanish, Korean, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Haitian Creole 
Translations are available at the BPCA home page.
EVENTS IN BATTERY PARK CITY PARKS

I Love My Park Day/Star Wars Day
Saturday, 
May 4
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Nelson A. Rockefeller Park – Park House
I Love My Park Day is an exciting statewide event to celebrate and enhance NY’s parks and historic sites. ‘May the 4th be with you’ as you stop by the Park House for a Star Wars Day selfie and galactic scavenger hunt of Nelson A. Rockefeller Park.
This event is free to attend.  For more information
click here.

 

Go Fish!
Saturday, 
May 11
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park
Join experienced anglers for catch-and release fishing and learn about life in the Hudson River.
The day also features an art project and a nature walk. Plus: Don’t miss the kindie rock and reggae tunes of Brooklyn based king of the dance party Father Goose!

10 AM – 1 PM: CATCH-AND-RELEASE FISHING
11 AM: ART PROJECT
11 AM: NATURE WALK
12 PM: FAMILY CONCERT
 
This event is free to attend.  For more information
click here.

Sunset Singing Circle
Fridays,
 May 3 thru June 28
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park
Singer/songwriter Terre Roche leads this weekly singing program with the beautiful backdrop of the setting sun in NY Harbor. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned crooner, the singing circle is perfect for mellow melodies and healthy harmonizing. No program 5/24 and 6/21.

Events at Brookfield Place

Fado Festival NY & NJ
May 1 – May 4
12:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Brookfield Place, Winter Garden
This spring, Brookfield Place is excited to host part of the Fado Festival NY & NJ. Fado is an iconic Portuguese musical tradition, and the Festival combines its ancient roots with contemporary interpretations.

MAY 1 & 2, 2019 | 12PM
Lunchtime performances by
Sofia Ribeiro
 
MAY 3, 2019 | 7:30PM
Evening performances by
Camané
Ana Sofía Varela  ​
 
MAY 4, 2019 | 6PM/7:30PM
Talk at 6:00PM by Lila Ellen Gray
Evening performances by
Helder Moutinho
Maria Emília

This event is free to attend. Food and beverage options at Hudson Eats are available for purchase.
For more information
click here.
Events at Museum of Jewish Heritage
Yom HaShoah Day-Long Holocaust Remembrance Day Observance
Thursday, May 2 
10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
36  Battery Place

 
Yom HaShoah is Holocaust Remembrance Day. It coincides with the 27th of Nisan (on the Hebrew calendar) to mark the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, when Jewish resistance fighters defied the Nazis and fought for freedom and dignity. Please join us at the Museum on Yom HaShoah for a day of learning and remembrance.
From 10 AM to 2 PM: visitors will also have the honor of meeting Holocaust survivors, whose presence in the Museum’s galleries will offer new opportunities to learn.
Complimentary admission.  For more information
click here.
Stories Survive Speaker Series: Harvey Moser
Sunday, May 5 
1:00 PM
36  Battery Place

Harvey Moser was born in Freiburg, Germany in 1928. He left for France with his brother after Kristallnacht in November 1938. One year later he was a passenger on the ship St. Louis, traveling from France to Cuba.
 This event is free to attend; advance registration recommended.
 For more information
click here.
The Golem
Tuesday, May 7 

7:30 PM
36  Battery Place

A dramatic reading of H. Leivick’s classic 1921 retelling of the legendary Golem of Prague delves into the world of mysticism as a meditation on the effect of violence on the Jewish soul.
In Yiddish with English supertitles.
This event is free to attend; RSVP required (up to 2 people per RSVP).
For more informatio
n click here.
Events at Poets House
Epic Voices: Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems
with Steven Alvarez

Tuesday, April 30 

7:00 PM
Poet's House, 10 River Terrace

Poet and scholar Steven Alvarez examines Olson’s epic The Maximus Poems as a transnational poetic project that dismantles the walls of a U.S.-centered America, exploring the poet’s experiences in the Yucatán deciphering Mayan scripts and his awakening to the subordinated Amerindian epics of Mesoamerica.
 Presented as part of the Emerging Poets Fellowship public lecture series, with support from the Jerome Foundation.
Admission $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House members.
For more information
click here.
Craft Talk: The Revolution Is Emotional: Recovering Art & Community with Yanyi
Saturday, May 4 

3:00 PM
Poet's House, 10 River Terrace

Former Emerging Poets Fellow Yanyi returns to Poets House to give a talk on his debut book, The Year of Blue Water (Yale, 2019), chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2018 Yale Younger Poets Prize. Yanyi will explore how his collection investigates a self in crisis, queerness, and the dialogues that connect the living and dead.
Presented as part of the Emerging Poets Fellowship public lecture series, with support from the Jerome Foundation.

 Admission $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House members.
 For more information click here.
Epic Voices: Karen Finley on William Carlos Williams’ Paterson
Thursday, May 9 
7:00 PM
Poet's House, 10 River Terrace

Legendary downtown performance artist Karen Finley looks at William Carlos Williams’ long poem Paterson as a political poem and in relation to her new work in poetry.
Admission $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House members.
For more information
click here.

 
EVENTS AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY 
Creative Writing Circle
Thursday, May 2

3:30 PM
175 North End Ave.
If you like to write and like to meet people who like writing, bring your creativity and personality to our creative writing workshop! All writers of all styles are welcome to participate in writing and editing exercises. Brush up your writing skills!
 Audience: Adults, 50+, Book Lovers, College & Graduate Students, Adults
 This event is free to attend. Please email 
karenloder@nypl.org if you have any questions! For more information click here.
Crafternoon: Happy Mother's Day
Wednesday, May 8

3:30 PM
175 North End Ave.
Join us to make your own Mother's Day card.  All materials will be provided.
This event is free to attend. First come, first served.
 For more information
click here.
EVENTS AT THE SKYSCRAPER MUSEUM
Forms in Nature
Saturday, May 4

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
39 Battery Place

Are humans the only architects? Come and learn about the types of structures built by animals and how they inspire architect’s designs. Using ideas from these forms children will design and build their own structures.
Cost is $5 per child. Members are free.
Ages 4 - 8. RSVP required. RSVP to
programs@skyscraper.org or call 212-945-6324.
For more information
click here.

 
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