Published: June 12, 2014 Publication: The Villager By Lincoln Anderson Attorney Arthur Schwartz said he met with Madelyn Wils, the president of the Hudson River Park Trust, last Friday afternoon, and she informed him that the secret $100-million memorandum of understanding, or M.O.U., for transfer of Pier 40’s air rights has officially been scrapped. The Villager reported last week that Schwartz was considering a lawsuit to block the air-rights transfer altogether on the grou

Published: June 6, 2014 Publication: NY Post By Carl Campanile Teachers shut out of retroactive pay raises under the new union contract are looking to claw their way into the windfall with a class-action lawsuit that could cost taxpayers as much as $35 million, The Post has learned. About 4,000 teachers who worked between 2009 through 2011 — the years covered by the back-pay deal — and left before their eligible retirement are excluded under the nine-year contract approved by