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After all the hurdles, the finish line is in sight

May 25, 2018 1 Comment

BY MADELYN WILS | Since its founding 20 years ago, Hudson River Park’s positive impact on the lives of New Yorkers has been significant and wide-ranging: from a child examining plankton during one of our free estuary lab classes to the more than $10 billion invested along Manhattan’s far West Side. Sunbathers, soccer players, joggers, read more here »

Tree-mendous win in District 3 ‘P.B.’ vote

May 25, 2018 No Comment

BY SAM BLEIBERG | The winners of Council District 3’s Participatory Budgeting vote were unveiled Sunday at Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s “West Side Summit” on the High Line. Johnson announced that, based on residents’ voting, the grand winner, to get full funding of $242,000, was a proposal to install 200 tree guards on tree pits read more here »

Croman even worse from behind bars: Tenants

May 24, 2018 2 Comments

BY SYDNEY PEREIRA | Steve Croman, one of the city’s most notorious bad landlords, may be locked up Downtown in the Tombs, but his tenants are still suffering. Tenants at 141 Ridge St., for example, have been living without cooking gas since last September. “We ask, when will there be a stop to Croman’s behavior?” read more here »

Pols decry ‘L’-ack of handicap access in subway shutdown

May 24, 2018 No Comment

BY LESLEY SUSSMAN | Politicians, L train riders, community group leaders and transit advocates converged in the rain at 14th St. and Third Ave. last Thursday morning to demand that the M.T.A. make the L train stations there and at Sixth Ave. fully accessible to people with disabilities, handicapped senior citizens and parents with infants read more here »

Police Blotter, Week of May 24, 2018

May 24, 2018 No Comment

Oh, boy… According to police, a man robbed his girlfriend on Tues., May 15, at 6:56 p.m., at 57 Carmine St. The victim told cops her boyfriend grabbed her arms and held her against a wall, and that, during the struggle, she could not breathe for three seconds. Her boyfriend took her wallet, cell phone read more here »

Scoopy’s Notebook, Week of May 24, 2018

May 24, 2018 3 Comments

And then there were two: The Democratic primary for the 12th Congressional District on June 26 is now down to a pair of candidates, the longtime incumbent, Carolyn Maloney, and the upstart challenger, Suraj Patel. Patel has now knocked off two other candidates, Peter Lindner and Sander Hicks, a diehard 9/11 Truther, by challenging the read more here »

PROGRESS REPORT: Low heights, parks, small shops help us thrive

May 23, 2018 1 Comment

BY DEBORAH GLICK | We continue to see dramatic changes to our neighborhood as development pressures rise. We often fear embracing the future means we will lose the essential nature of our past, but this does not have to be the case. The city has proposed the creation of a “Tech Hub” on 14th St. read more here »

PROGRESS REPORT: Fighting to save and promote small businesses

May 23, 2018 No Comment

BY CARLINA RIVERA | Last year was a tough one for the local businesses that help define our district. With ever-rising rents, it’s just as common to walk down a street on the East Side and see a big-box or vacant storefront as it is to see a small business. We did see some victories read more here »

PROGRESS REPORT: Working to keep real estate and mayor in check

May 23, 2018 1 Comment

BY ANDREW BERMAN | The de Blasio administration, a booming real estate market, an aggressive and well-financed real estate lobby, and spiraling retail vacancies present huge challenges for preservation in our neighborhoods. But in spite of these enormous obstacles, we are making progress. The area between Union Square and Astor Place is facing an unprecedented read more here »

‘Sens and the City’: Free the weed!

May 17, 2018 15 Comments

Earlier this month, the NYC Cannabis Parade and Rally took over Union Square in a cloud of smoke. Eventually, the partying participants marched a short distance down to Washington Square — luckily, without getting lost. Among those at the event was Cynthia Nixon, who is running in the September Democratic primary against Governor Andrew Cuomo. read more here »