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The Paper of Record for Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Soho, Union Square, Chinatown and Noho, Since 1933
June 11, 2015 • $1.00 Volume 85 • Number 2
God’s Love ready to get cooking again at its new enlarged Soho building BY TEQUILA MINSKY
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here was a lot of bonhomie and a shot of glam at the ribbon-cutting for the new God’s Love We Deliver building at the corner of Spring St. and Sixth Ave. on Tuesday morning. Despite threatening gray skies, the rain held off.
The $26 million project — built in a year and a half — has transformed the nonprofit meal-provider group’s former headquarters, a squat, two-story, 60-yearold building, into a new five-story facility, more than doubling the space to 48,000 square feet. GOD’S LOVE, continued on p. 31
BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC
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nvironmental groups are calling for General Electric to continue its cleanup of a dangerous pollutant that it dumped into the Hudson River. “Time is running out on this issue because GE’s about to pull up stakes and move
on,” said state Senator Brad Hoylman. “They’ve considered their job done. I think a lot of us believe differently.” Hoylman’s remarks came at the start of a panel discussion about the future health of the Hudson River held Thurs., June 4 at the SVA Theatre, at 333 W. 23rd St. HUDSON, continued on p. 6
PHOTO BY MILO HESS
Don’t go with the flow; Make GE finish Hudson cleanup, panel urges
FIGMENT NYC landed on Governors Island last weekend. See page 4 for photos.
Drumbeat builds for reining in noisy music in Wash. Sq. BY ALBERT AMATEAU
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usic in Washington Square Park, long a cherished tradition in Greenwich Village (a neighborhood full of traditions), was the focus of a meeting last week packed with neighborhood residents and many of the people who play music in the park. No one wanted to stop the music. The issue was how loud it should be and how to keep a reasonable noise level. There were questions
about rules — hours and decibel levels. And there were calls for enforcement. “The number one complaint at Community Board 2 is noise, and most of the complaints come from park neighbors and park users,” said Tobi Bergman, chairperson of C.B. 2. “I don’t like noise, but when I was 40 years younger I did like it — and added to it,” Bergman said. The June 3 meeting of the board’s Parks Committee was intended “to hear what
people had to say and to help find a solution,” Bergman added. “The rules are not enforced,” declared a woman resident of 2 Fifth Ave. just north of the park. “We can’t live in our own homes.” It was a complaint often repeated at the two-hour meeting. A rare occasion when a phone call to the Parks Department did bring results involved a woman who WASH. SQ., continued on p. 26
Stormproof WiFi idea is connecting.................page 7 Belgian fries stayin’ alive in Village.................page 9 Greek beat on the street.............page 30
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