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July 5 - July 11, 2012
AIDS memorial design is starting to grow on C.B. 2 BY ALBERT AMATEAU The latest design for a living canopy of climbing evergreens and flowering vines that will become an AIDS memorial on the triangle across from the former St. Vincent’s Hospital emerged last week at a joint Community Board 2 Parks Committee forum with the AIDS Memorial Park (AMP) coalition. Mateo Paiva of Studio a+i
described how the 18-foothigh, triangular green canopy — supported on three triangular vine-clad legs — would cover the 1,600-square-foot apex of the triangle at the intersection of Seventh and Greenwich Aves. Rows of “U�-shaped troughs across the top of the thin, steel, canopy trellis would hold earth for the
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Village native Matthew Broderick testified against the N.Y.U. plan on Friday. Someone in his group left a cell phone open atop the 2031 balsa model to capture all the action.
‘It’s gone too far’; Broderick brings down the N.Y.U. house BY ALBERT AMATEAU New York University’s plan to add four new buildings and a total of about 2 million square feet of development to its two superblocks south of Washington Square Park was aired at a City Council hearing last week. University officials, opponents and supporters of the plan and councilmembers spent about eight hours on Fri., June 29, going over the application to expand N.Y.U.’s Greenwich Village campus over the next 19 years.
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The Council will make a final decision on the plan at a Wed., July 25, vote, completing the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) that began in October. An hour before the 9:30 a.m. hearing, opponents of the plan, including preservation advocates, superblocks residents and N.Y.U. faculty members, rallied on the steps of City Hall. A half hour later, supporters of the N.Y.U. 2031 plan, including construction union and building service union
members, gathered in a smaller demonstration on the steps before the Council Chamber doors opened. N.Y.U. President John Sexton told the Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises that the plan was intended to strike a balance between the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pressing need for new space and concern for the Greenwich Village neighborhood. He said the university is meeting
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Waterfront work: East Siders dream of river schemes BY LESLEY SUSSMAN It was an evening of imagination and dreams for residents of the New York City Housing Authorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bernard Baruch and Lillian Wald Houses on Thurs., June 28, as a small group of them gathered to help elected officials and city planners shape the future revitalization of East River Park. The meeting was held at the Hamilton Fish Public Library, 415 East Houston St.
The participants were invited to comment on the preliminary â&#x20AC;&#x153;River to the People: The East River Blueway Plan.â&#x20AC;? In the making since September 2011, the plan is sponsored by Borough President Scott Stringer, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, the New York State Department of Coastal
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