The huddled masses after the finish line of the Marathon. Photo by Barry.
Check out some news relevant to the Upper West Side that we’ve seen in other news outlets over the past week.
The massive luxury towers being built just South of Central Park may cast parts of Central Park in shadow, particularly during the winter. There’s been little protest, unlike when the Time Warner Center was being built. (NY Times)
James Julius Graham pleaded not guilty to attempted murder after police arrested him for stabbing five people in a rampage in Riverside Park on October 1. Graham “told the officers who arrested him after a 9-minute rampage that he stayed at a homeless shelter in the Bronx, and “They just tell me I’m crazy in that place,” according to court documents.” (NY Post and DNAinfo)
Here are some nice photos of Halloween events in Central Park last week. (Time Out NY)
A bill co-sponsored by Gale Brewer would limit construction hours in the city. These days, it seems like the Building Department’s hours for ear-splitting construction are basically “whenever the hell you want!” “Under the proposed law…contractors would be forbidden from working before 7 a.m. and after 8 p.m. on weekdays, or before 11 a.m. and after 4 p.m. on Saturdays — except in emergencies and when public safety is at risk.” (NY Post)
Bill de Blasio held a rally on the UWS on Sunday. (Capital NY)
Bloomingdale Library got $1 million for anew bathroom and teen center. (DNAinfo)
Some Roosevelt Hospital patients, including babies, may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a staff member. (Daily News)
A blind lawyer hit by a bicyclist in Central Park this year, was gearing up to run the Marathon despite his injuries. (Detroit News)
A pretty harsh appraisal of Banksy’s month in NYC by art critic Jerry Saltz. “Those works that remain, without the spotlight of hyped-up publicity, now look as trite, generic, and as boring as they really are.” He generally liked the painting on West 79th, though: “Nice use of a found-object standpipe.” (New York magazine)
With $5 billion in food stamp cuts coming on Monday, city food pantries are in trouble. (Crain’s)
The Ceres, a sailboat transporting 15 tons of food as part of the slow-food movement, sailed on the Hudson last week. West Side Rag reader Katherine Weber took the photo below of it on Thursday as it passed the Upper West Side. (more at T magazine)
To read the last weekly bulletin we published, click here.
Community advocates have been kept hoping with ALL the assaults by developers and the push by the Mayor to get what he can before he leaves town for London. The destruction of the iconic 42nd Street Library, the destructive midtown east zoning proposal and one could go on and on. The mayor has set his cap for rezoing the City in the best interest of developers and giving them carte balance to “Plan” the city to give them maximum profit. The common good is no longer even a secondary or tertiary concern. It isn’t even in the radar! Land use regulation in the city is a travesty! We’re not giving up. Join us and help us try to save what we can.
RE: “Community advocates have been kept hoping”
Ummm…the correct expression is “kept HOPPING”
RE: “giving them carte balance”
Ummm…here the correct expression is “carte BLANCHE” (c’est en français, mais oui?)
The rest of the above is as erroneous as these misspellings! Exactly WHAT is wrong with developers re-making the cityscape?
Do we really need to see block after block of shabby, smoke-stained, deteriorating five-floor walkup tenements just to satisfy someone’s penchant for “authentic neighborhoods”? And, if one wants authenticity, venture out to Queens, Brooklyn, even El Bronx to see what apartment dwelling was like almost 100 years ago.
THIS IS MANHATTAN! AS A WORLD-CLASS DESTINATION
IT DESERVES TO HAVE CUTTING EDGE DEVELOPMENT! And such development IS for ‘the common good” as it makes the city look wonderful to anyone’s eyes…even people who cannot afford to live in the new shiny condos.
AND RE: “Join us and help us try to save what we can.”
Join WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE?
Save WHAT? WHERE? and, most importantly, that old “crooked-letter”: WHY ?????????????