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Faith leaders, U.N.’s Guterres call for end to hate and violence BY LESLEY SUSSMAN
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who’s who of some of the city’s top-ranking faith leaders, statespersons and civic and political leaders attended a gathering Wednesday morning at Park East Synagogue, on the Upper East Side, to remember the
massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue last weekend, and denounce all acts of violence and hate that have occurred throughout the nation. Among those who attended the gathering, at 163 E. 67th St., were Cardinal Timothy HATE continued on p. 2
A flood of concerns over resiliency plans six years after Sandy BY SYDNEY PEREIR A
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n the days following Superstorm Sandy, Tanya Acevedo, a mother of two, remembers that it “felt like we were living in the end of the world.” While waiting for the power to return, her apartment in the
Lillian Wald Houses on Avenue D was dark and cold. “It felt so surreal,” she said. She recalled that her son, then 3 years old, would cry from how cold it was in the late October, early November days after the storm hit New York. RESILIENCY continue continued on p. 10
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What are they so scared of? Doris Diether, 89, of C.B. 2, possibly the cit y’s longestser ving community board member, wore a Halloween mask and earrings in Washington Square. She opposes board term limits. “It’s silly,” she said.
Board term limits will be ballot battle BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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ommunity board members and local politicians are up in arms over the Nov. 6 ballot proposal for term limits for board members. Yet the influential organization Transportation Alternatives is among the groups backing the issue, feeling that
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capping board members’ tenure at eight years is a good idea. Other supporters include the Working Families Party and the SEIU Local 32BJ and UNITE-HERE Local 100 unions, among others. Meanwhile, for its part, the powerful Real Estate Board of New York, though not supporting term limits outright, is notably urging that the com-
munity boards be overhauled — with fewer members per board, longer terms, and for the mayor to be able to make community board appointments, too. Critics of the proposal blast it as a blatant effort to weaken the — albeit advisory — oversight role of community BOARDS continued on p. 6
Rivera bill targets park birdnappers................ p. 13 Trump’s venom is poisoning us; So say it.........p. 15 Volume 88 • Number 43