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July 26, 2018 • $1.00 Volume 88 • Number 29
Study: Four new Two Bridges towers won’t impact displacement BY SYDNEY PEREIR A
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evelopers of four proposed residential towers in the Two Bridges area faced a tough crowd at Monday night’s Community Board 3 Land Use Committee meeting. With nearly 2,800 new apartments between the quartet of towers, a series of mitiga-
tions have been proposed based on findings from a Draft Environmental Impact Statement, which was abruptly released in late June. Several mitigations for transportation, open space and resiliency were presented, including adding an elevator at the East TOWERS continued on p. 4
N.Y.U. buys 7-story residential building on Wash. Sq. Park BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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ew York University has acquired another property right on Washington Square. The building is located at the northwest corner of the park, at MacDougal St., directly east of the Washington Square Hotel. “New York University has
reached agreement to acquire the property at 27 Washington Square North,” university spokesperson John Beckman said in a statement. The university acquired the building from Vornado in a direct transaction. It did not disclose the sale price or the N.Y.U. contin continued on p. 21
PHOTO BY BOB KRASNER
Red-tail hawks Christo and Dora “went to church” atop St. Brigid’s on Avenue B overlooking Tompkins Square Park.
Glick Miranda warning: Will Nixon be on ballot? BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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ould Cynthia Nixon be running against Assemblymember Deborah Glick in November? It’s being reported that if she loses the Democratic primary to Governor Andrew Cuomo, the “Sex and the City” actress-turned-politico
Les Lieber: He blew long.........p. 8
doesn’t want to be a “spoiler” in the general election by helping Republican candidate Marc Molinaro. Yet, as of now, she still has the Working Families Party line for governor in the general election. The New York Post first reported that, as a backup plan, the W.F.P. got Doug Seidman
onto the Nov. 6 ballot as a “placeholder” in the Village’s 66th Assembly District, which would give Nixon an out: To get off the ballot for governor, she could switch to the Assembly race — she lives in the district — and take Seidman’s place. Seidman, meanwhile, ASSEMBLY continued on p. 2
Pols, activists blast Blaz on old P.S. 64 stall...p. 10 Illustrator sketches out the old Daily News.....p. 13 www.TheVillager.com