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From park pier to horizontal ‘office building’

March 22, 2018 5 Comments

BY TOM FOX | The Hudson River Park Trust recently announced that it would allow the developers of Pier 57 to replace the area dedicated to Anthony Boudain’s proposed public market with an additional 70,000 square feet of Google offices. That public market had been announced with great fanfare two years ago but was abandoned read more here »

Driven by Chrysler Building rent, Cooper U. is on road back to free

March 22, 2018 5 Comments

BY STANLEY WLODYKA | On Wed., March 14, The Cooper Union’s board of trustees approved a plan that would get the school back to full-tuition scholarships in 10 years. This comes after the elite East Village college decided to start charging tuition in 2014 after 155 years of offering its courses free of charge. The read more here »

Epstein Assembly ready as election set for April

March 22, 2018 No Comment

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Harvey Epstein is raring to get to work in the state Assembly on issues that matter to him, from affordable housing to public schools to reforming the criminal justice system, among others. First, though, he has to win a special election for the open 74th Assembly District seat that Governor Andrew read more here »

Slow down L shutdown

March 22, 2018 4 Comments

Because he had the audacity to announce he plans to sue the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Department of Transportation over their plan to shut down part of the L train route for nearly a year and a half, Village attorney Arthur Schwartz has been slammed by the plan’s supporters. He has been called “selfish” read more here »

Search success: Google seals deal for Chelsea Market building

March 22, 2018 No Comment

BY WINNIE McCROY | Internet giant Google announced on Tues., March 20, its purchase of Chelsea Market from Jamestown for $2.4 billion. The two companies have agreed to work together to ensure a smooth change of ownership, with Jamestown retaining its role as a manager of the building’s retail and food hall presence. Google was already read more here »

Letters to The Editor, Week of March 22, 2018

March 22, 2018 No Comment

‘Facility fee’? No thanks! To The Editor: Re “Locals lamenting Beth Israel Hospital’s loss of full array of services” (news article, March 15): Another downside of the takeover of Beth Israel that I haven’t seen addressed elsewhere: Mt. Sinai now appears to be charging patients at its 10 Union Square East location as if it read more here »

Banksy hits Bowery wall, former bank in Big Apple return

March 22, 2018 No Comment

Banksy returned to New York City this past week, painting a mural on Houston St. honoring a jailed Turkish artist, and adding a scurrying rat to the clock of an old bank building slated for demolition on W. 14th St. The artwork on the famed “mural wall,” just west of the Bowery, highlights the plight read more here »

Police Blotter, Week of March 22, 2018

March 22, 2018 1 Comment

Killed by car An 84-year-old Village woman who was hit by a car on Sixth at W. 13th St. died three days later. Police said that on Mon., March 12, around 10:30 a.m., Patricia Clare O’Grady, of 498 Sixth Ave., was hit by a Ford Sedan just a block from her home. Responding officers found read more here »

Scoopy’s Notebook, Week of March 22, 2018

March 22, 2018 No Comment

Rhino — oh, no! The death of Sudan, the planet’s last male northern white rhinoceros, hit home on Astor Place Tuesday, where a sculpture of him and the last two female northern white rhinos was unveiled just last week. Sudan, 45, passed away at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya Monday, where his daughter, Nejin, read more here »

Not everyone thinks Silver should die in prison

March 22, 2018 3 Comments

BY MARY REINHOLZ | Not all of Sheldon Silver’s detractors cheered the 12-year-sentence federal Judge Valerie Caproni gave him after jurors at Silver’s 2015 trial found him guilty of seven counts of corruption in U.S. District Court. In handing down the stiff sentence in Lower Manhattan’s Foley Square to the once-powerful Assembly speaker, Caproni expressed read more here »