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Hope for SPURA
After decades of inertia at the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, on the Lower East Side south of the Williamsburg Bridge, the makings of a viable development scheme are taking shape. Where six blocks have lain vacant, occupied by open-air parking lots, there are now visions of housing and commercial development, and much-needed jobs and economic development.
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Evan Forsch
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Street art from the underground
The Underbelly Project, a hidden collection of street art in an abandoned Brooklyn subway station, has recently been getting publicity — and at least 20 people sneaking in to see it have been arrested. More photos.
After Pei protests N.Y.U. plan, supermarket site is new focus
By Albert Amateau
After New York University announced last week that it was withdrawing its Landmarks Preservation Commission application to build a 40-story fourth tower on the superblock site of three I.M. Pei-designed residential towers, Village neighbors and preservation advocates were waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Tea Party’s brew doesn’t go down well Downtown
By Lincoln Anderson
It was the week after the election and a longtime reader of this newspaper, a lifetime Village resident, called to say she was wondering why the paper hadn’t reported the results of the local Downtown races. Sure, she said, probably all the same people won, just like usual, as they’ve been doing for years — but still... .
NYCHA’s repair system is broken, tenants charge
By Aline Reynolds
Lower Manhattan, the world’s financial capital where tremendous fortunes are made and lost, is also the site of 30 public housing developments where low-income tenants live in shoddy and unhealthy conditions. These residents look to the New York City Housing Authority for much-needed repairs to their decaying apartments.
New school with British accent
By Albert Amateau
A new private elementary school for children 3 to 11 years old, World Class Learning Academy, an affiliate of British Schools of America, is opening next year in the East Village at E. Second St. at Second Ave., in the former LaSalle Academy.
Art for Haiti raised $30,000
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It’s time for Obama and us to get back to basics
By Arthur Z. Schwartz
East Side, West Side, park improvements all around; It’s a green golden age
BY ADRIAN BENEPE
St. Brigid’s work is more extensive than expected
By Lincoln Anderson
River park is four-fifths finished but needs funds
By Noreen Doyle
New study of kids’ learning with cochlear implants
Stylish maintenance building coming down the track by the Whitney Museum
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Tompkins Square Park’s “Tent City”
’42 find shows eatery knew it paid to advertise — in The Villager!
By Albert Amateau
The past came to light only a few inches beneath the floor of a Greenwich Village standby, Fedora restaurant, last week. |
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Special Theater Coverage
Reviewing Martin Denton
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK
Prolific nytheatre.com founder pioneered comprehensive coverage.
Ms. Jones becomes an assertive ‘Mrs.’
BY JERRY TALLMER
Tony winner crafts a ‘full, courageous, thinking, complex human being.’
A slice of the future
Nine railroaded men (not boys) hit Broadway
BY JERRY TALLMER
John Kander on the making of ‘Scottsboro.’
Give thanks for November Downtown theater
BY TRAV S.D.
Castratos, cabins, electric sheep & Christmas among the meaty offerings. |
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Our 2010 Community Handbooks are a great resource and guide for life in New York City. This year we are featuring 20 of our favorite books about our favorite city. Print editions are available beginning the week of July 5, 2010. View it online now.
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