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Scene, Week of Feb. 21, 2013

February 21, 2013 No Comment

Around 4:30 p.m. Sunday acrid smoke drifted from New Jersey over the Hudson River’s whitecaps. The cause was a three-alarm fire in Hoboken. A propane tank had exploded on a deck, engulfing one building, filling many others with smoke and affecting nine families.

Is NID really needed, and who asked for it anyway?

February 21, 2013 4 Comments

BY EILEEN STUKANE | The Hudson River Park is in a financial fix with about $40 million in repairs needed to keep Pier 40 stable, plus the costly rebuilding of park structures damaged from Hurricane Sandy. And as noted in this newspaper, the Hudson River Park Trust was already operating at about a $7 million [...]

Letters, Week of Feb. 21, 2013

February 21, 2013 4 Comments

Koch ruled by division To The Editor: Re “Koch’s color, complexities laid out in new documentary” (news article, Feb. 14): Koch brags about bringing people together? What a sad joke. He ruled by division, especially along racial lines. And his failure to bring people together to fight H.I.V./AIDS allowed the virus to spread out of [...]

Quinn’s middle way

February 21, 2013 2 Comments

It’s become de rigeur for our top city officials to all give annual State of the City addresses. As it turns out, these speeches are about more than simply raising one’s profile, and, in fact, offer many good ideas. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, in her State of the City address on Feb. 11, laid [...]

Quinn holds the cards on rezoning and landmarking

February 14, 2013 No Comment

The Hudson Square rezoning currently before the City Council presents a rare case where a win-win is possible. Done right, the outcome could please everyone — developers and community groups, residents and businesses. Unfortunately, the rezoning plan also presents the possibility of a lose-lose for the community. One person will decide which of these outcomes we get [...]

Letters, Week of Feb. 14, 2013

February 14, 2013 No Comment

Says Durst plan has no park space To The Editor: Re “Geballe wins Round 1” (Scoopy’s Notebook, Feb. 7): Yes, the Durst plan proposes to “adaptively reuse” Pier 40 — but unfortunately by converting the pier’s wonderful courtyard space into a massive new parking garage. There will be no park space on the pier. Sports [...]

Hizzoner Ed Koch

February 14, 2013 No Comment

It was hard to imagine New York City ever being without Ed Koch. Whether you loved him, hated him or fell somewhere in between, Koch was a larger-than-life figure who always seemed to embody the very essence of the city. His death on Feb. 1 at age 88 came as a shock — even though [...]

Why protest climate change?

February 14, 2013 1 Comment

BY FURY YOUNG | I’m a bus organizer for 350.org’s Forward on Climate rally. I’ve been on board with the protest for months now. “Why is it important to protest climate change?” you might ask me. Because I feel it’s my civic duty as an earthling. Whether or not you believe in global warming, it’s [...]

Koch came back to Loisaida

February 7, 2013 No Comment

Ed Koch paid a visit to the Sixth Street Community Center in June 2005 to take a look at “Viva Loisaida,” Marlis Momber’s exhibit of her photographs of the Lower East Side from the 1960s and ’70s. Momber invited Hizzoner to sign one of the photos that showed him and activists in 1987 at a [...]

City Hall to silver screen: The filmic life of Ed Koch

February 7, 2013 No Comment

BY JERRY TALLMER |Fifty years is a long time to have known somebody, and it has been all of 50 years and more since we of the new weekly Village Voice were cultivated by a clean-cut, Uptown, reform Republican named John Vliet Lindsay and a Downtown, legal eagle, reform Democrat named Edward Irving Koch. Each [...]