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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 30, 2014 • $1.00 Volume 84 • Number 22
Seniors are praying church won’t boot them in favor of film crews BY CLARISSA-JAN LIM
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New storm-surge berm for L.E.S. could begin taking shape by 2017 BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC
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fter Oct. 29, 2012, the city was faced with a new reality and an urgency to protect its coastline. Two years later, the “Big U” design is part of the plan to safeguard hard-hit areas such as the East Village and Lower East Side — but
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ilm shoots block the sidewalks for hours and inconvenience local residents, sometimes preventing them from even going to and from their own homes. Now comes word that a historic Village church may soon boot local seniors
out of its basement in favor of movie crews. The senior center’s members are panicking amid rumors that Our Lady of Pompeii Church will not renew the lease of Greenwich House’s Senior Center. Located in the basement of the church on 25 Carmine
it is unclear where funding will be found for other sections of Lower Manhattan. In June 2013, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development launched the Rebuild by Design contest, a “multi-stage design competition to develop in novat ive, impleBARRIER, continued on p. 24
Progressive power broker: Allen Roskoff, president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, center, joined Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor, left, and Alexander Meadows, the local Progressive Party candidate for Assembly, right, outside the Stonewall Inn Monday as the candidates cross-endorsed each other.
N.Y.U. adds four years to Bleecker school deadline BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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ew York University last week agreed to extend the deadline for the city to decide whether it wants a new 100,000-square-foot public school on a university-owned site at the southeast corner of Bleecker St. and LaGuardia Place. The date for the city’s School Construction Authority to “opt in” and greenlight the school project was fast approaching — the end
of this year. But on Mon., Oct. 21, Lynne Brown, N.Y.U.’s senior vice president, wrote to City Councilmember Margaret Chin, who represents the district, telling her that the university had increased the timeframe. “N.Y.U. will extend the current deadline — December 31, 2014 — to December 31, 2018,” Lynne wrote Chin. “This would seem to provide S.C.A. with ample opportunity — within its 5-year capital plan — in which to make a decision
about the inclusion of the Bleecker St. site. The extension is given with the understanding that if the S.C.A. does indicate to the university that it intends to move forward with the project, it must start construction by July 31, 2020 (so that all parties can have certainty about the site’s future). “All the other elements of the prior agreement as memorialized in the Restrictive Declaration remain NEW SCHOOL, continued on p. 8
Lenape pad won’t be luxe, but free..............page 2 Protected-lanes push for 5th, 6th Aves.......page 10 Halloween waggers strut ’n’ swagger..........page 25 DR2 temporary home is a hit!......page 20
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