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    NYC man who got $45,000 to settle excessive-force lawsuit sued for assault on cop

    NYC man who got $45,000 to settle excessive-force lawsuit sued for assault on cop

    Published: November 22, 2013 Publication: Daily News By John Marzulli George Capsis, 85, of Manhattan, admitted slapping Officer Juan Perez after an argument over a police van that Capsis said was blocking a bike lane. The city settled a lawsuit filed by Capsis. But now Perez is suing the gadfly for allegedly assaulting and defaming him. George Capsis of the West Village received $45,000 to settle an excessive-force lawsuit he filed against the NYPD. Now an officer he admits
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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

    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

    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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