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The Paper of Record for Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Soho, Union Square, Chinatown and Noho, Since 1933
April 30, 2015 • $1.00 Volume 84 • Number 48
Outspoken critic of Li’s leadership of C.B. 3 is booted from E.V. board BY LESLEY SUSSMAN
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The long goodbye is over for old Lithuanian church in Hudson Square BY TEQUILA MINSKY
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n Sunday, Elena Naujikinene was looking for the familiar form of Our Lady of Vilnius to guide her. But she had lost her way; her visual reference was no longer there. Demolition began at least a month ago on her beloved 105-year-old church on this
obscure spur of Broome St., sandwiched between a Varick St. parking garage and three small residential buildings hard by the Holland Tunnel entrance. What was left of Our Lady of Vilnius was hidden from sight behind green plywood construction walls. Through a peephole, one could glimpse O.L. VILNIUS, continued on p. 10
PHOTO BY TEQUILA MINSKY
n harshly worded language, recently ousted Community Board 3 board member Ayo Harrington lashed out Tuesday night against Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, charging that Brewer’s refusal to reappoint her
as a member of the board was “shameful and disappointing.” Harrington’s comments were made before the full board at its meeting at P.S. 20 on Essex St. just a few days after Harrington — a fierce critic of C.B. 3 Chairperson Gigi Li — was informed by
The eastern end of the new Whitney Museum, featuring its fire escape-like stairs, viewed from the High Line.
The Whitney sets sail, floating on light and air BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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tanding on one of the new Whitney Museum of American Art’s outdoor terraces, one can take in the whole sweep of the surrounding neighborhood. According to the museum, this was the intent: to have the terraces face inward toward the city, as opposed to outward toward the Hudson River. (Plus, right now, the view directly west of the museum is dominated by Gansevoort
Peninsula, still occupied by unsightly garbage trucks and sheds. A park is coming on Gansevoort — but it will be a while.) From the museum’s terraces, one can visually track how the Meatpacking District has evolved. Just to the north is the Standard Hotel, completed in 2009, perched on a massive trestle, straddling the High Line below. The elevated park opened the same year and immediately became one of the city’s top tourist attractions.
Last Sunday, the High Line was teeming with people swirling about below tree boughs blooming with white and purple petals — almost like some sort of wildly busy Jackson Pollock painting when viewed from the Whitney’s terraces above. Over on Washington St., a former row of meat lockers — with forgotten names like Lamb Unlimited and Diamond Meats — has been transformed into an office MUSEUM, continued on p. 8
Hung jury in Patz murder case..........................page 3 Focus on C.B. 2’s Tobi Bergman.........................page 4 Fearing a Balazs noise barrage.......................page 6 ‘The Visit’ will stay with you.........page 21
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