"If I have recourse, I’m gonna use it,” said Richard (Handsome Dick) Manitoba.
The owner of the eponymously named Manitoba’s bar on Avenue B isn’t sitting quietly after being so rudely shushed by upstairs neighbors to the tune of $6,400 in fines.
On March 27, Mr. Manitoba and his lawyer are scheduled to appear before Read More
The East 50′s Neighborhood Coalition has filed for a preliminary injunction against the Department of Environmental Protection’s planned Shaft 33B, at 59th Street and First Avenue, which would connect water mains to Water Tunnel No. 3, the city’s 50-year, $6 billion infrastructure project.
The coalition contends that an alternate site between 55th and 56th Read More
There’s no question that the East Side will be getting shafted—it’s just a question of where and for how long.
The Department of Environmental Protection, along with the Department of Design and Construction, is currently scoping out sites for the location of Shaft 33B, the latest infrastructure project for the long-awaited Water Tunnel No. 3, Read More
There’s no question that the East Side will be getting shafted—it’s just a question of where and for how long.
The Department of Environmental Protection, along with the Department of Design and Construction, is currently scoping out sites for the location of Shaft 33B, the latest infrastructure project for the long-awaited Water Tunnel No. 3, Read More
There’s no question that the East Side will be getting shafted—it’s just a question of where and for how long.
The Department of Environmental Protection, along with the Department of Design and Construction, is currently scoping out sites for the location of Shaft 33B, the latest infrastructure project for the long-awaited Water Tunnel No. Read More
It’s hard to imagine a resource more critical to New York than water. Indeed, it wasn’t until the city had a safe, reliable source of drinking water that it could begin the expansion that led to New York becoming what it is today-one of the world’s great cities.
So it is disheartening to realize that Read More
East Side Block Isn’t Keen
On Getting the Shaft
A wide cross-section of troops is mobilizing to prevent the residents of-and drivers on-East 54th Street from being shafted, quite literally.
The city has chosen the block between First and Second avenues as the favored site for an approximately 18-month construction project to build Read More
At a time of budget cuts and work-force reductions, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has committed billions of dollars to an enormous new capital project that rivals, in scope and complexity, the great public works of Robert Moses, the legendary builder of parks, highways and beaches.
The Observer has learned that the Bloomberg administration has decided to Read More
The School at Columbia University
To Hold Lottery for Admission
When, in January 2001, Columbia University announced its plans to construct a new K-8 private school for the children of its faculty and staff, a firestorm was set off between the university and Morningside Heights residents. Now, nearly a year after the groundbreaking for Read More
Chris Ward, Mayor Bloomberg’s commissioner of the city Department of Environmental Protection, recently received an urgent e-mail message from the department’s top officer in charge of protecting the watershed. A truck that had been carrying a massive shipment of cyanide when it was hijacked 100 miles north of Mexico City had just been recovered by Read More
