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Dec 15, 2011

Park Plan Gives Added Access to East River

Design proposals for a new waterfront park on Manhattan's East Side are beginning to take shape as an urban-planning organization submits its recommendations to the city.
Dec 14, 2011

A Rent Spike May Loom at Stuyvesant Town

Thousands of tenants at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village will face a potential spike in rents and more uncertainty over the future when a year-old accord expires Wednesday, ending a period of calm at the financially troubled complexes in Manhattan.
Dec 13, 2011

Hope Floats! Municipal Art Society Revives Plans for East River Waterfront [Update]

Building booms come and developers go, but a good project has a way of sticking around. Times Square, Columbus Circle, Hudson River Park, Queens West, all have seen their ups and downs, all are in various states of repose.
Dec 8, 2011

Proposed Task Force Would Take On Confusing Parking Signs

If you have been confused by parking signs stacked on top of each other with conflicting directions, you’re not alone. Councilman Dan Garodnick understands your dilemma.
Dec 7, 2011

City Tardy With East Side Solutions

The parents in Community Education Council (CEC) District 2 are not happy. They came out en masse on a school night this week to express their displeasure to the council and Department of Education (DOE) chancellors, Marc Sternberg and Kathleen Grimm.
Dec 1, 2011

Brookfield, tenants to seek NY's Stuyvesant Town

The Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association has selected Brookfield Asset Management Inc as a partner to formulate a bid for the sprawling Manhattan apartment complex that would allow tenants to buy their units.
Nov 30, 2011

Stuy Town Tenants Bid For Ownership To Keep Complex Affordable

Tenants of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village are aiming to buy their apartments in order to keep the complex affordable.
Oct 25, 2011

UES Community Board Wants Stricter Rules for Street Vendors

Limiting the number of street vendors per block, requiring design guidelines for carts and trucks, and creating an agency dedicated to enforcing vendor rules are among the ideas being floated by an Upper East Side community board.
Sep 25, 2011

E. Side Eatery Bicycle Terror

These take-out cowboys are taking out pedestrians. Bicycling deliverymen are the scourge of East Side sidewalks and intersections, according to a survey of 1,300 residents by Councilman Dan Garodnick (D-Manhattan) last month that found 60 percent were fed up with the two-wheeled terrors and that they had become the neighborhood’s second biggest gripe.
Sep 7, 2011

Wednesday, September 7th is 'Gilad Schalit Day' in NYC

In the presence of Noam Schalit, Israeli Consul General Ido Aharoni and, New York City political leaders and Jewish leaders, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn proclaimed Wednesday, September 7th “Gilad Schalit Day” in New York City.

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