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The Paper of Record for Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Soho, Union Square, Chinatown and Noho, Since 1933
October 16, 2014 • $1.00 Volume 84 • Number 20
Union Square pavilion restaurant could be cooked, local pols say BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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alk about fast food! After just a quick six months, it could be the last supper for the Union Square pavilion restaurant — at least as far as its actually being located inside the historic structure. In a community newsletter mailed to her constit-
uents which they received last week, state Senator Liz Krueger reported that the new seasonal restaurant, the Pavilion Market Cafe, will permanently vacate the structure at the end of this season, which means right around now. Under the contract with PAVILION, continued on p. 25
BY ZACH WILLIAMS
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ommunity Board 3’s Land Use Committee voted on Oct. 14 to oppose a proposed 16-unit housing project that would displace the Lower East Side’s Siempre Verde Garden. At issue are two cityowned land parcels — 181
Stanton St. and 137 Attorney St. — which currently are used by the garden on a temporary basis per a 2012 agreement between the gardeners and the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. The department sought C.B. 3’s support for the city’s plan to divest SIEMPRE, continued on p. 8
PHOTO BY MILO HESS
C.B. 3 committee backs community gardeners but city wants the lots
Comic Con, as this fan would tell you, was a real scream. See Page 11 for more photos.
Appellate Court rules full N.Y.U. project can proceed BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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n a stunning reversal in the community’s battle against the “N.Y.U. 2031” supersized expansion plan in the South Village, Tuesday a panel of Appellate Division judges threw out a January court ruling, effectively clearing the way for the entire, massive, nearly 2-million-square-foot, four-building project to move forward. Randy Mastro, of Gibson Dunn, one of the attorneys
for the community plaintiffs, immediately assured that they would appeal to the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals. In a statement, N.Y.U. Faculty Against the Sexton Plan, said, “We are disappointed that the Appellate Division overturned the decision that would keep our precious Village parks — Mercer Playground, LaGuardia Park and LaGuardia Corner Gardens — protected from N.Y.U.’s unnecessary and ruinous expansion plan. However, we
will continue to seek justice in this matter and move on to the New York State Court of Appeals.” Many of the school’s faculty live on the university’s superblocks and dread, in the worst-case scenario, what they call a “20-year construction project,” if the full plan is allowed. Dismissively referring to “some strips of land,” university spokesperson John Beckman, hailed Tuesday’s N.Y.U. 2031, continued on p. 24
V.I.D. snubs guv, backs Hawkins...................page 4 How the Greenmarkets grew.........................page 10 R.I.P. Anntelope, poet of the night...................page 12 ‘Nightmare’ in New York.............page 18
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