Posts Tagged ‘city council’

Candidate Adds East European Flavor to Council Race

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on March 13, 2012. Posted in Politics

In a City Council race already getting crowded with familiar neighborhood faces, Ken Biberaj is hoping Upper West Siders are willing to get to know one more. The latest candidate to declare a run for the 6th District seat (Council Member Gale Brewer will be out on term limits), Biberaj is also the youngest, at
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Final St. Vincent’s Hospital Rezoning Hearing Draws Hundreds

Written by admin on March 12, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, Dwell OTDT, News & Features West Side Spirit, News OTDT, News Our Town, Our Town Downtown, Politics

While hundreds of community members waited outside, a City Council subcommittee deliberated on the St. Vincent’s development project. Photo by Janice Chung.

Opponents, supporters of project testify as developers seeks upzoning previously reserved for hospital By Alan Krawitz Several hundred residents and community activists packed a City Council subcommittee hearing last Tuesday, March 6 in a final attempt to make their feelings known about Rudin Management Company’s plan to redevelop the former St. Vincent’s Hospital site in
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UES Council Members Eye Higher Offices

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on February 22, 2012. Posted in Breaking News, News Our Town, Our Town

The Upper East Side appears to be a perfect incubator for ambitious young politicians seeking to move up the ranks of New York City politics. Both City Council members Jessica Lappin, representing Roosevelt Island and the eastern portion of the neighborhood, and Dan Garodnick, who represents the western portion bordering Central Park and south to
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Rosenthal Launches Bid for City Council

Written by admin on January 18, 2012. Posted in West Side Spirit

By Megan Finnegan Bungeroth If Helen Rosenthal wins the City Council seat she’s vying for next fall, we may be seeing a lot more graphs in city government. “My family teases me because I do think in charts,” Rosenthal said in a recent interview at one of her regular Upper West Side spots, Café 82.
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Margaret Chin, City Council member

Written by admin on December 28, 2011. Posted in Breaking News

I foresee a year of growth and opportunity for Lower Manhattan in 2012. [This] year, the world watched as we joined together to remember the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. After the attacks, people said our community would never recover. But today, we are stronger than ever. In 2012, we will
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Brewer Leads Hearing on Voting Snafus

Written by admin on October 6, 2010. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

By Gavin Aronsen City Council members demanded answers from the city’s Board of Elections Monday, Oct. 4, regarding its handling of the Sept. 14 primary. New optical scan voting machines were debuted during that election, causing headaches for some voters. During the hearing, poll workers and public interest groups voiced their concerns about voter privacy,
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NEW CHAIR FOR COMMUNITY BOARD

Written by admin on November 11, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Mel Wymore was elected chair of Community Board 7 last week. Helen Rosenthal, who led the board for two one-year terms, was barred by term limits from running again. Wymore likely made a bit a civic history by becoming the first transgender chair of a community board. The Arizona native, who moved to the Upper
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Our Election Picks

Written by admin on September 9, 2009. Posted in Editorial, News & Features West Side Spirit, Opinion and Column

Lest the daily overflow of campaign mailings didn’t tip you off, there is a primary election in New York City on Sept. 15, with several key offices up for grabs. We hope that voter turnout will be high to reflect this particularly important juncture in city history. Readers should note that for two of these
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Jewish Home Land Swap

Written by admin on August 13, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

Representatives from Jewish Home Lifecare, an organization that provides health care for seniors, met with community groups on Aug. 12 to unveil a proposal to redevelop its West 106th Street nursing home in Park West Village, on West 100th Street. To bankroll the new nursing home, a project that has long been in the works
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Protect Vendor’s Rights

Written by admin on July 16, 2009. Posted in Opinion and Column

To the Editor: Aren’t you glad that highly paid City Council members can dedicate so much time to writing and passing laws aimed at one person? I guess New York City is otherwise in very good shape that there is nothing more important for these two “public servants” to do. This proposed law is also
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