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Appeal to fight co-location at L.E.S. high school
Published: November 21, 2013 Publication: The Villager By Sam Spokony Opponents of a proposed co-location at a Lower East Side high school have filed an appeal with the city’s Board of Education to try to stop it. The Department of Education proposed in August to co-locate a new high school (designated 01M203) in 200 Monroe St., currently home to University Neighborhood High School. Although D.O.E.’s Panel for Education Policy voted in October to approve the co-location, the
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Community confronts park air rights issue as Cuomo O.K.’s bill
Published: November 14, 2013 Publication: The Villager By Sam Spokony and Lincoln Anderson By SAM SPOKONY and LINCOLN ANDERSON | On the same day that around 200 Lower West Side residents gathered to discuss their fears about a bill that would allow the transfer and sale of Hudson River Park’s air rights, Governor Andrew Cuomo finally signed the bill into law. Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, had just finished his i
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Is Gansevoort waste plan still afloat with Bloomberg set to sail off? Critical agreement remains uns
Published: November 7, 2013 Publication: The Villager By Lincoln Anderson It’s been five years since the state Legislature approved legislation to allow a marine waste transfer station on Gansevoort Peninsula in the Hudson River Park. However — as the clock winds down on the final weeks of the Bloomberg administration — a crucial memorandum of understanding required to allow the hotly debated Gansevoort project to proceed still has not been signed. Under the outgoing mayor’s
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