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June 20 - 26, 2013
Time isn’t right for ‘clock tower,’ neighbors say By HeaTHeR DuBin A packed crowd turned out for Community Board 2’s Land Use and Business Development Committee meeting on Wed., June 12, to weigh in on a proposed 18-story residential building at 120-140 Sixth Ave. on a triangular lot at Sullivan and Broome Sts. Local residents expressed their disapproval of the application based on the building’s Photo by Tequila Minsky
Petro protest shifts into high gear
Along with their attorney, Jim Walden, right, local residents on Wednesday announced a lawsuit to remove the Citi Bike station from Soho’s Petrosino Square. See article, Page 11.
Solomon to judge ‘Soho Wild Man’ By HeaTHeR DuBin Richard Pearson, a mentally ill man who has been terrorizing residents and merchants around Spring St., will appear before Judge Charles Solomon in State Supreme Court on Tues., June 25, for allegedly throwing a brick at a person’s head on May 17 in Soho. Arrested on May 22, Pearson is charged with second-degree assault, a felony. A grand jury has indicted him.
According to Soho and Nolita residents and merchants along Spring St. and in the surrounding area, Pearson has wreaked havoc on their lives by verbally and physically harassing people. At a Fifth Precinct Community Council meeting on June 29, locals expressed concern for their safety, shared stories about Pearson’s behavior and asked police for help. Assistant District Attorney Kaitrin
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Roberts advised those at the meeting to write letters to the judge, detailing their experiences with Pearson, which could potentially impact the case. Next week Pearson is scheduled to be arraigned, when he will enter a guilty or not-guilty plea. Solomon will then determine the next course of action. Pearson could be held in jail without bail, or a new bail amount could be set.
height, 223 feet, and claimed it would not fit in with the neighborhood. In the committee’s executive session after the meeting, community board members followed suit and resolved to recommend to the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals that the condominium tower be shorter, especially given that
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C.B. 3 committee pitches in to save children’s garden By saRaH FeRGusOn The embattled Children’s Magical Garden got a resounding thumbs up from the Parks Committee of Community Board 3 last week. C.M.G. came under attack last month when developer Serge Hoyda — who has a history of power plays on the Lower East Side — fenced off one of
the three lots which make up this garden on the corner of Norfolk and Stanton Sts., effectively bisecting this small green haven. Last Thursday, C.B. 3’s Parks Committee voted unanimously to endorse the gardeners’ request to transfer the garden’s two other lots — currently owned
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