By Helaina Hovitz At Community Board 1’s full board meeting last week, hundreds of Verizon workers showed up to make an appeal for the board to take action and call on Verizon to stay in Lower Manhattan. Their 140 West Street building has been vacant since Sandy hit, and now the company is trying to 
South Street Seaport and its museum may soon be no more By Helaina Hovitz As suspected and outlined in last week’s article, March 20’s City Council “food market” victory announcement turned out to be a lot of smoke and mirrors. In approving a Uniform Land Use Review Process (ULURP) application with the Howard Hughes Corporation, 
Sen. Brad Hoylman questions the efficacy of a state tax rebate program in helping New Yorkers By Adam Janos If you’re a New Yorker with a kid, you may have some cash that’ll be waiting for you in your mailbox, come next autumn. That’s because the state is issuing a $350 tax rebate check to 
A downtown building manager explains why you might be sweating in your apartment until May 31, despite rising spring temperatures By Sophia Rosenbaum New Yorkers’ knowledge of how their heating systems work is minimal, and the lack of information often leads to a blame game – tenants blame landords, landlords blame tenants and building managers 
An artist known for his boundary-pushing work launches a line of offensive – and complimentary – business cards with a local company to raise money for the homeless By Helaina Hovitz Designer Stefan Sagmeister has worked with Aerosmith, Lou Reed, The Rolling Stones, and the Talking Heads, to name a few well-known clients. Known for 
Filmmaker Andrew Jenks on his documentary series that is transforming MTV By Angela Barbuti Andrew Jenks is changing the world. In a recent episode of his MTV documentary series World of Jenks, he paraphrases a famous quote when he says, “Never believe a small group of people can’t change the world, because that’s the only 
Leaders and students from Upper East Side after-school programs rally to keep them off the budget chopping block “Invest in us; we’ll rise to the top. Give us a little, we’ll grow a lot!” This was the rally cry of the 700 children and after-school advocates that attended the March 28th rally outside City Hall 
