Aid Honored for Service During Sandy

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Home health aid Vietta Horton stayed by the side of her 92-year-old client for a week straight when the storm hit By Helaina Hovitz Lower East Side resident Connie Moscarella, 92, was afraid to fall asleep during Hurricane Sandy. Fortunately, she was with her home health aide of nearly seven years, Vietta Horton, 61, who
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End of Life Care for a Generation that Boomed

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New ways of thinking about eldercare could help our aging population thrive By Adam Janos Jewish Home Lifecare and Himan Brown Charitable Trust hosted a Health Policy Symposium at the Alexandria Center on East 29th Street earlier this month to address growing long-term health care needs that stand to confront the baby boomer generation of
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Eye-Catching Specs

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Jeffrey’s Manhattan Eyeland beats generic chain shops By Laura Shanahan Let’s play a little game, you and me. I’m going to give you clues, and you guess what type of venue we’re visiting today, OK? In the storefront window is a lineup of an artfully wrought painted plaster zebra, tiger and antelope, and an avant-garde
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Subway Prepping for Next Big Storm

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After recovering from extensive damage from Hurricane Sandy, the MTA is gearing up for the next giant weather event By Karen Matthews Removable panels and inflatable plugs are among the ideas New York City’s transit officials are considering to stop the next big storm from flooding the subway system the way Superstorm Sandy did, officials
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Community Calendar

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Community Board 7 Parks & Environment Committee meeting, Monday, May 20, 7 p.m., Community Board office, 250 West 87th Street. Community Board 7 Transportation Committee, meeting, Tuesday, May 21, 7 p.m., Community Board office, 250 West 87th Street. Community Board 7 Land Use Committee meeting, Wednesday, May 22, 7 p.m., Community Board office, 250 West
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Brewer Picks Up Endorsements

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Upper West Side City Council Member Gale Brewer is running for Manhattan Borough President, and her campaign recently announced that she has received endorsements in that race from Assemblymembers Dick Gottfried and Brian Kavanagh, feminist writer and activist Gloria Steinem, former Council Member and Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, former Lieutenant Governor Mary Anne Krupsak,
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BP Stringer on Park West Village

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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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Public Housing Outcry

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

Residents pose alternate solutions for NYCHA’s $6 billion deficit Wednesday at noon, hundreds of public housing advocates, flanked by City Council Members like Melissa Mark Viverito, gathered on the steps of City Hall to call for the end, or at least the delay of, public housing infill development, and a more transparent relationship between residents
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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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Sustainable Streetscape Unveiled

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The Columbus Avenue BID completed the first sustainable streetscape on the Upper West Side Five years of fundraising and 10 years of research and planning by the Columbus Avenue Business Improvement District culminated in a celebration and ribbon cutting on Monday, May 13 on Columbus Avenue between West 76th and 77th Streets. A host of
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