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BY GALE BREWER | There’s a reason lawmaking is compared — unflatteringly — to sausage factories. It’s not neat, it’s not quick, and if you do it out in public, it can kill a lot of people’s appetite for the final product. But rushing through new laws with short notice and inadequate public review, on read more here »
Same old crusty story To The Editor: Re “Crusties enrage residents, merchants on E.V. blast block” (news article, Oct. 11): Anyone who still has a rent-regulated apartment should be happy they still have a home and are not sleeping on the street with these guys. Gee…the annual crusties are a big “problem” story. Honestly, how read more here »
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BY LYNN ELLSWORTH | It is hard not to grieve the physical blows our city has sustained over the years. The first big losses began with the upheavals of urban renewal that demolished vast working-class neighborhoods, all packed to the gills with small businesses: the Seaport, the Lower West Side, San Juan Hill, the Upper read more here »
Continue reading …Start of a great Trip To The Editor: Re “Whoa, what a Trip first fest was!” (news article, Oct. 4): It was a joy as well as an honor to be part of this first Village Trip annual festival of the arts, of which we hope there will be many more to come. It was read more here »
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BY ALAN CHAPELL | Robert Moses once remarked, “Cities are created by and for traffic. A city without traffic is a ghost town.” Mr. Moses’ spirit is probably looking out on the corner of Greenwich and W. 10th Sts. and smiling right about now. In case you don’t know, there’s a plan under development that will read more here »
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BY VILLAGER STAFF | On Tues., Oct. 2, Northwell Health announced the opening of a two-story, 15,000-square-foot, multispecialty medical practice in the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital, now known as The Greenwich Lane Townhouses. The new facility, Northwell Health Physician Partners at Greenwich Village, is at 7 Seventh Ave., with its entrance where read more here »
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The following is excerpted from a recent letter by Sung Soo Kim, founder of the Small Business Congress of New York City, to Mark Gjonaj, chairperson of the City Council’s Small Business Committee, in advance of the committee’s Oct. 22 hearing on the Small Business Jobs Survival Act. By Sung Soo Kim | I am very read more here »
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BY DAVID EISENBACH | With the Small Business Jobs Survival Act’s public hearing fast approaching on Oct. 22, it’s time for all supporters to join together to save the soul of New York by passing this bill. To do that we need to move past the controversy over whether Council Speaker Corey Johnson must issue read more here »
Continue reading …Give small shops a chance To The Editor: Re “Will the S.B.J.S.A. get a fair hearing?” (talking point, by Kirsten Theodos, thevillager.com, Sept. 27): This is a great article that gets to the heart of what is wrong with New York City politics right now: how politicians seemingly are in bed with big real estate read more here »
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BY KIRSTEN THEODOS | After nine long years of a growing crisis that has resulted in a vacant storefront epidemic that is plaguing the city, a serious debate is about to take place in City Council on the best solution to stop the closing of long-established small businesses, mostly caused by exorbitant rent increases. Last week, read more here »
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