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Benjamin Ryan

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Upper West Side Greenlights

Needle Exchange for S.R.O.’s

Manhattan community Boards

At its April 1 meeting, Community Board 7 made a significant move to respond to a year of vociferous complaints about a city agency that houses homeless people with H.I.V./AIDS in single-room-occupancy hotels. In a unanimous vote, the board gave the green Read More

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Trump’s Riverside South

May Displace Highway Ramp

Multiple lawsuits aimed at halting or altering construction have proven powerless against Donald Trump’s vision for a gargantuan real-estate development on the Upper West Side. Nonetheless, outraged neighbors are now devising tactics to prevent a likely ripple effect of the new buildings’ arrival: closure of the West Read More

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City for Sale? Parking Meter

Ads Are Imminent

What with marketing gurus having already colonized bike-messenger T-shirts and restaurant bathroom stalls, it would seem as if Madison Avenue couldn’t possibly find another surface in the city to plaster with advertising. Not so. Prepare yourself for an imminent eruption of messages wrapped around that ubiquitous Read More