NYU’s Daily Student Newspaper
WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS Vol. 40, No. 42
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
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Number City approves new expansion for Chelsea Market of hired juniors on the rise By ISAAC MARSHALL
In a nearly unanimous 41-1 vote, the New York City Council approved a controversial expansion to the Chelsea Market earlier this month that will double the building’s office space. The expansion consists of two large towers that will be built atop the existing Chelsea Market building, creating almost 300,000 square feet of office and hotel space. Despite support from speaker of the City Council Christine Quinn, many others, including Andrew Berman, chair of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, oppose the expansion. “It’s deeply disappointing that the City Council and City Planning Commission are allowing a beloved New York City landmark to be disfigured, and one of the city’s most congested neighborhoods to be further overdeveloped,” Berman said. “In spite of the pleas of the vast majority of this neighborhood’s residents, once again the interests of real estate developers have won out.”
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The market will receive two towers, giving the venue an additional 300,000 square feet of space. Berman also disagreed with the City Council’s claim that the expansion will not take away from the current Chelsea Market building. “I’m not sure that I would call what was approved a ‘compro-
Alicia Keys album has more misses then hits By TOBIAS KEUNEKE It has been almost three years since Alicia Keys’ last album, “The Element of Freedom,” hit the shelves. That album sold four million copies worldwide — her lowest-selling album so far. It also surprised people with very beatdriven, up-tempo songs instead of her former laid back piano sound. With her new album, “Girl On Fire,” Keys puts out a mix of both of these sounds. Generally, you can divide “Girl On Fire” into three kinds of songs. There are very stripped-back, piano-centered songs like “Not Even The King” and “101,” the upbeat R&B-pop crossover songs like “Lim-
itedless” and “New Day,” and the songs floating in the middle like “Tears Always Win” and “Fire We Make.” Listening to each of the 13 songs, one waits for the big Alicia Keys masterpiece that is going to blow up in your head and on the radio, but it never comes. Unfortunately, all of Keys’ slower songs drag and feel interchangeable, especially her three Emeli Sandé co-writes, “Brand New Me,” “Not Even The King” and “101.” The songs would have been better off on a Sandé record. Another questionable choice was putting the “Inferno Version” of “Girl On Fire” featuring Nicki Minaj
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mise,’” Berman said. “The City Council’s deal does say that affordable housing will be created as result and that 75 percent of the ground floor of Chelsea Market will be preserved for food uses.”
“However, similar promises have been made with such deals in the past and not turned out to be true. The City Council has not yet made public the terms
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While finding a college job or internship is never easy, a new report by the Wasserman Center for Career Development has a bit of hope for young workers. The report found that 92 percent of NYU juniors who sought part-time jobs or internship positions were able to secure them last academic year. The numbers show a three-point increase from the previous year. The report was based on a survey of 2,459 NYU juniors late last semester and included unpaid volunteer positions that were careerfocused. During the last academic year, 46 percent of students held more than one job, internship or volunteer position. “We do this report every year ... target[ing] juniors because we think they provide a good snapshot of students in middle of their academic careers,” Wasserman Center
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Local restaurant welcomes customers as neighbors By ANGEL CHANG Rarely do we come across a restaurant that intends to do more than just make money. A restaurant is a business, after all. But for Manuel Moreno, one of the founders of Da Marcella Taverna, a restaurant should fulfill a need in society. That is, it should look at customers as people and as neighbors. A restaurant should not merely satisfy the stomach but also nourish the mind. “Sophia Loren said, ‘The most indispensable ingredient of all good cooking is [the] love for those you are cooking for,’” Moreno said, whipping out a copy of “Sophia Loren’s Recipes and Memories.” From there began a lavish concentration on the ritual of the ragù alla Bolognese (a meat-
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Founder Manuel Moreno emphasizes authentic Italian food. based sauce typically served with pasta), a tradition of hearty Sunday feasting that originated in Bologna, Italy. “[This ritual] is a labor of love, but Marcella is the only restaurant in the city that upholds this ritual,” Moreno said. At Da Marcella, the kitchen staff cooks the ragù for at least eight hours, letting the aromas
and flavors intertwine. One of the things that Moreno misses the most from his native Spain is the bread. After escaping from Franco’s dictatorship in Spain to New York in his early 20s, Moreno opened The Bakery of New York in 1990. The bread made there was purely
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