Published: July 14, 2014 Publication: The New York Times By Kate Taylor Residents of the West Village will soon see something unusual arriving at the shiplike building on Seventh Avenue that used to house part of St. Vincent’s Hospital: ambulances. Four years after St. Vincent’s closed, the hulking white building, between West 12th and West 13th Streets, is reopening in the coming days, not as a hospital, but as a free-standing emergency room. “We’ve given back the community

Published: July 12, 2014 Publication: Daily News By Ben Chapman Attorney Arthur Schwartz said he expects to file a motion in Staten Island Supreme Court within two weeks claiming his clients should be named as co-defendants of the city and state’s Education Departments, which were sued two weeks ago by the New York City Parents Union for failing to provide quality education to all kids. ENID ALVAREZ/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The president of the New York City Parents Union, Mona Da

Published: July 10, 2014 Publication: The Villager By Lincoln Anderson Downtown progressive Democratic club members were having a hard time finding reasons why they should support re-electing Governor Andrew Cuomo to another term. More to the point, there were too many reasons not to back him, they felt, such as his support for charter schools, his acceptance of the Independence Party ballot line and his indecision on hydrofracking, just to name a few. In fact, some clubs — i

Published: July 1, 2014 Publication: WestView News By Arthur Z. Schwartz After Pier 40 Air Rights Debacle and Lies . As the Pier 40 air rights drama unfolds, there will be many fingers pointed. The saga is full of secret deals and a lack of “transparency.” In fact, as WestViewgoes to press no one, not even The Times, has a copy of the secret deal between the owners of the St. John’s Building, Hudson River Park Trust, and the Empire State Development Corporation. The problems