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July 5, 2018 • $1.00 Volume 88 • Number 26
Oversize stores are still a big problem in Soho and Noho BY SYDNEY PEREIR A
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llegally large retail spaces continue to plague the Soho and Noho neighborhoods, and Community Board 2’s Land Use Committee and Assemblymember Deborah Glick want answers from the city’s Department of Buildings on how it plans to deal with
the issue going forward. The oversized retail spaces — which are greater than 10,000 square feet — technically violate the zoning regulations for the area’s M1-5B manufacturing-based zoning. To have a retail space greater than 10,000 square feet, retailOVERSIZE continued on p. 16
Patel ran strongly vs. Maloney in East Village, boroughs BY SYDNEY PEREIR A
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n New York City’s primaries last week, Congressmember Carolyn Maloney won her 14th term in Congress by a nearly 18-point margin against first-time candidate Suraj Patel. It was the closest primary Maloney has had in her 25 years in office, but Patel couldn’t quite
swing voters on Manhattan’s East Side — where Maloney took home around 8,500 more votes than Patel. The unofficial election results were analyzed by the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, with breakdowns by PRIMARY continued on p. 10
PHOTO BY TEQUILA MINSKY
A girl in Foley Square Saturday summed up the sentiment at the Families Belong Together March, par t of a huge nationwide protest. For more photos, See Page 6.
Gjonaj makes some noise on biz, vague on S.B.J.S.A. BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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eading chants of “Enough is enough!” and “What do we want?” “Jobs!” “When?” “Now!” Bronx Councilmember Mark Gjonaj last Thursday headed scores of chamber of commerce members and small business owners
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in a City Hall rally demanding the de Blasio administration stop crushing small merchants with burdensome taxes and regulations. After the “Protect NYC Jobs and Businesses” rally, Gjonaj (pronounced “Joenye”) introduced the Micro-Business Transparency Act. The bill would defi ne a
“micro-business” as a locally owned company with 10 or fewer employees. The measure would also require the city’s Department of Small Business Services to conduct an annual survey to identify micro-businesses and the economic sectors in which BUSINESS continued on p. 3
C.B. 3 O.K.’s building for 2nd Ave. blast site......p. 4 Freelancers find help in fight for fair pay..........p. 9 www.TheVillager.com