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The Paper of Record for Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Soho, Union Square, Chinatown and Noho, Since 1933
November 20, 2014 • $1.00 Volume 84 • Number 25
St. Mark’s Bookshop is starting another chapter at new E. Third St. home BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC
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Heroic cop Petrosino, scourge of Black Hand, gets bronze plaques BY TEQUILA MINSKY AND LINCOLN ANDERSON
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n Wed. Nov. 5, at Petrosino Square — at the intersection of Kenmare, Spring and Lafayette Sts. and Cleveland Place — members of the New York Police Department and Parks Department unveiled two bronze markers hon-
PIER55, INC./HEATHERWICK STUDIO
an a business be at square one after 37 years? For Bob Contant and Terry McCoy, the owners of St. Mark’s Bookshop, now at its fourth location, the answer is yes. “We’re really in a startup situation here,” Contant
said. “We moved out of our old neighborhood. This is an entirely different neighborhood and it takes time for people to discover you.” The new store has been at its new location, 136 E. Third St. near Avenue A, since July 19. St. Mark’s Bookshop was forced to move from its pre-
oring Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino, the only N.Y.P.D. officer to die on foreign soil in the line of duty. The strains of bagpipes filled the air as representatives from local Little Italy civic and cultural organizations were joined by family members of the heroic officer, including his grandPETROSINO, continued on p. 11
A design concept for Pier55 — viewed looking toward the west — which will be located off of W. 13th St.
Diller and DVF give huge gift to create park arts pier BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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n the single largest gift to a public park in New York history — and the second largest in U.S. history — Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg have pledged $113 million to build a signature “island” off of W. 13th St. in what is being billed as a future “world-class public park and performance space.” The new 2.7-acre Hudson River Park pier — to be called Pier55 — will feature
three “peaks,” one of which will rise 71 feet, and three performance spaces, including a 750-seat amphitheater overlooking the river. The design also calls for grass lawns and large trees, with hardscape and paths mixed in between the greenery. Under a lease, a nonprofit, Pier55, Inc., or P55, to be chaired by Diller, will fund the new pier’s programming, operations and day-to-day maintenance for 20 years, with an op-
tion to extend this another 10 years, bringing Diller and von Furstenberg’s total commitment to hundreds of millions of dollars. They’ve also promised to pay for any project cost overages that may occur. The funds will come from their Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation. The new pier’s performances will be coordinated by an equally high-powered team, including Scott Rudin, PIER 55, continued on p. 8
Old P.S. 64 holiday card campaign.................page 2 Anti-fascists bash pair of punk bands...........page 7 Battle for University Place and B’way...........page 13 The Lyp back in synch.................page 17
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