Posts Tagged ‘Linda Rosenthal’

Who Will Save Them?

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on . Posted in Pets

Politicians argue over best way to save beleaguered animal shelter system   Most elected officials and animal rights advocates agree that New York City’s public shelter system is desperately in need of reform. Shelters are grossly overcrowded and understaffed, the city spends only 10 percent of the Humane Society’s recommended $8 per capita on its
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DOT Introduces Safety Measures at Dangerous West Side Intersection

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

By Dan Rivoli The Department of Transportation has released a plan to make the dangerous West 71st Street-Broadway-Amsterdam Avenue intersection safer. The proposal calls for adding pedestrian areas next to curbs that will shorten walking distance, add more spots to cross and slow cars making turns
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SWEET RIDE

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

April 16 was a very sweet day for some Upper West Side kids, when a traveling mobile maple exhibit visited Manhattan as part of the annual Maple in Manhattan Day. The event was sponsored by the New York State Maple Producers Association, and included visits from State Sen. Thomas Duane and Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal.
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Renovated 96th Street Station Open to Straphangers

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

“I got a monthly. Here I go,” said State Sen. Bill Perkins, pulling his MetroCard out of his wallet inside the new expansion of the West 96th Street station. Straphangers wiggled through a throng of MTA officials, elected representatives and press to access the new 96th Street station house—an above-ground entrance to the No. 1,
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West Side School Picked for PCB Removal

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

P.S. 199 will be part of a study to target and remove PCBs, a cancer-causing substance, throughout public schools in the five boroughs. Two years ago, the man-made chemical was found in the Upper West Side school, at 270 W. 70th St. between West End and Amsterdam avenues. An investigation revealed that the school was
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