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BP Stringer on Park West Village

Written by NYPress on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

The Borough President released an open letter to neighbors and residents of Park West Village on Friday, May 10, concerning recent developments at the site of the future Jewish Home Lifecare elder care facility on West 97th Street. Excerpts from the letter are below: As many of you know, a study sponsored by the Park
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Local Kids Save Pit Bull Puppy

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

Students from the Stephen Gaynor School raised money to rescue Misty the pit bull terrier The students at the Upper West Side’s Stephen Gaynor School, a special education school on West 89th Street, love animals just like most kids their age. But these kids have put an extraordinary effort into not just learning about but
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Thinking Beyond the Food Drive

Written by Alissa Fleck on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

The NYC Coalition Against Hunger promotes innovative ways to treat the city’s major hunger problem For many New Yorkers—and Americans in general—when they think of feeding the hungry, they think of scrounging through their pantries for canned goods to donate to food banks or helping serve food at a shelter over the holidays. And therein
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Thinking Beyond the Food Drive

Written by Alissa Fleck on . Posted in News OTDT, News Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown

Innovative ways to fix the city’s hunger problem For many New Yorkers—and Americans in general—when they think of feeding the hungry, they think of scrounging through their pantries for canned goods to donate to food banks or helping serve food at a shelter over the holidays. And therein lies the problem, says the New York
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Local Biz on Paid Sick Leave

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on . Posted in Breaking News, News & Features West Side Spirit, News Our Town, Our Town, West Side Spirit

As the city council moves closer to a paid sick leave bill, Upper East Side businesses respond Soon New York City workers may not have to worry that catching the flu will cost them their job. After three years of speculation and obstruction, an agreement on a paid sick leave bill, authored by District Six
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Hudson Square Rezoning Vote Delayed

Written by NYPress on . Posted in News OTDT, Our Town Downtown, Uncategorized

The City Council debated the measure but held off on the vote By Sophia Rosenbaum The postponement of last Wednesday’s land use and zoning meeting provides the committees with only one more chance to vote on the controversial Hudson Square rezoning package – March 13 at 9:30 a.m. The committees were supposed to vote on
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Unsafe Playground Has Parents Worried

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

playground_1_Ma Design of W. 89th St. playground makes kids more likely to get injured      Most kids get bumps and bruises during playtime. But at P.S. 166, recess has turned dangerous. In the past year, four kids have gotten concussions, and several more were sent to the hospital, all because of the West 89th Street playground’s
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Tapped In

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on . Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

Carrère Memorial Stairs Restored The Parks Department announced last week that the restoration of the John Merven Carrère Memorial Stairs at Riverside Park is finally complete. This architectural memorial, located at West 99th Street and Riverside Drive, received renovation funding from both Mayor Michael Bloomberg, amounting to $375,000, and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, amounting
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Tapped In: Micro-Apt Design Winner, Fighting Heart Disease in Women, History Buffs Show

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on . Posted in News Our Town, Our Town

Apartment NEW WEBSITE MAKES GOVERNMENT MORE TRANSPARENT Want to know more about how city officials are spending taxpayers’ money? Now there’s a website that helps you follow the buck. The website, called Checkbook 2.0, was recently released by City Comptroller John Liu. City residents can now see inside New York’s purse and look up department payrolls,
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