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VOLUME 31, NUMBER 23
NOV. 29–DEC. 12, 2018
Chris Quinn ‘seriously considered’ advocate, but she isn’t running BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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hristine Quinn definitely plans to keep advocating — just not as New York City public advocate. The former City Council speaker recently issued a statement, saying she had seriously considered running for public
advocate, but in the end, decided not to throw her hat in what could well be a crowded ring in a special election — likely to be held sometime in February. Quinn represented the Council’s District 3 (the Vil QUINN continued on p. 7
Chinatown ‘Car’-nage as minivan drivers kill two, injure many more BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
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rivers of 2015 Toyota Sienna minivans claimed the lives of two people in Chinatown over the past two weeks. On Thurs., Nov. 15, around 12:50 p.m., police responded to a 911 call of a pedestrian struck
at Bayard St. and Bowery. Upon arrival, they found a 90-yearold woman, Ngan Leung, of 10 Confucius Plaza, conscious and alert complaining of pain. E.M.S. medics transported her to Bellevue Hospital Center, where she succumbed to her in
‘Tombs’ turnaround
CARNAGE continued on p. 11
City moves jail site 3 blocks north
The Manhattan Detention Complex, more colloquially known as “The Tombs,” at White and Centre Sts., is once again the city’s preferred site of a new towering jail building.
BY SYDNEY PEREIR A
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n Wednesday, the city backtracked on locating a jail at 80 Centre
St. City officials told The Villager the de Blasio administration plans to return to its original plan to locate a jail at Manhattan’s existing detention complex at 125 White
Gear up for Camp Fair! .........p. 26
St. at the Manhattan Detention Complex, known as “the Tombs.” The city had been pitching constructing a 430-foot building at 80 Centre St. as a part of its larger project to close Rikers Island and drastically reduce the city’s jail population. The Manhattan District Attorney’s offices, the city’s Marriage License Bureau,
and other offices are currently housed at 80 Centre St. But, the costs associated with relocating those offices within Lower Manhattan proved more burdensome than originally believed. Instead, according to a mayoral spokesperson, the city plans to demolish The Tombs and PRISON continued on p. 3
Memorial for peace activist McReynolds ........ p. 17 Bringing out the animal in Andy Warhol ......... p. 19
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