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Monthly Archive for June, 2007

CB 2 Full Board Meeting

FULL BOARD Brad Hoylman, Chair
Thurs., 7/19 @ 6:30 PM- St. Vincent’s Hospital, 170 W. 12th St. Cronin Auditorium (I.D. Required)
THE PUBLIC SESSION BEGINS AT 6:30 PM. SPEAKERS’ CARDS WILL BE ACCEPTED FROM 6:00 TO 7:00 PM. Reports from the Chair, District Manager, Borough President, Standing Committees. INDIVIDUALS WHO CANNOT ATTEND ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT WRITTEN [...]

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The battle against the illegal billboards at Hotel Gansevoort continues, as reported by Ivy Brown,
we are currently looking into the garden of ono at the gansevoort hotel and it’s illeagel entrance on hudson street, (by law all should enter through the restaurant on 13th street).
i am a big supporter of protesting the billboards, they [...]

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from GVSHP:
GVSHP and other neighborhood groups have long been pushing to change the zoning for Hudson Square, the area west of Sixth Avenue from roughly Houston to Spring Streets, where Donald Trump plans to build his 45-story ‘condo-hotel.’ The City’s recent decision to allow condo-hotel development in manufacturing zones like these makes the need for [...]

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Per the NYTimes, Marcus Samuelsson, the executive chef of Aquavit, who was born in Ethiopia, will open Merkato, a restaurant offering his interpretation of dishes from all over Africa, in mid-September in the old Sascha space (55-61 Gansevoort).
Um, I guess it wasn’t the PM Lounge getting the liquor rights, or the nice men from Little [...]

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Subject: PM Lounge – Hearing for Noise Code Violation
Tuesday, June 26th and Wednesday, June 27th at 9:30am
111 Centre St. Room 949 NY, NY 10013 / Judge Stallman / NYC Civil Court
Dear Neighbors,
My husband and I and two young children (Lucas, 6 and Juliette, 3) moved into unit 1A at 838 Greenwich St. right after [...]

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Development Monstrosities

From GVSHP:
Far West Village Development: Julian Schnabel’s development on West 11th Street, which was vehemently opposed by GVSHP and the community, is finally emerging from its construction shroud. Sad to say, the design for the 167 ft. tall development of three triplex luxury condos, done by the artist himself, is even more horrible [...]

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A Kestrel story…

I’m writing about an interesting bird sighting — a fledgling American Kestrel seen on my fire escape yesterday and today (photo attached). This beautiful bird is a small falcon. I know an ornithologist, Bob De Candido, who is studying kestrels in New York City, and he thinks there must be a nest very nearby.
As [...]

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Anneke from 95 Horatio writes in with an important concern about a traffic light:
I have a concern about the traffic light we use to cross the west side highway from Horatio/Gansevoort to the river. If a car is driving west on Gansevoort and will turn left to head south on the west side highway, [...]

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