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THE December 13, 2018 Volume 88 • Number 48
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City shows C.B. 2 final project plan for Eliz. St. Garden BY SYDNEY PEREIR A
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aven Green, the affordable housing project slated for the Elizabeth St. Garden site, is now starting to make its way through the formal public review process. Last week, the Department of Housing Preservation and
Development presented the plans to Community Board 2’s Elizabeth St. Garden Committee for the building. The design calls for 123 units for lowincome and formerly homeless seniors, common space and an exterior terrace for residents, GARDEN continued on p. 7
Council, Brewer sue over Two Bridges four-towers project BY SYDNEY PEREIR A
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ust two days after the City Planning Commission voted 10 to 3 to approve the Two Bridges developments, the City Council and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer sued the city. In addition, community groups are readying to
sue and a locally based waterfront rezoning effort has been renewed. In court proceedings on Friday — rather than a judge issuing a temporary restraining order blocking the developers from moving ahead — City Planning TOWERS continued on p. 8
PHOTO BY BOB KRASNER
Kids sang “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” at the Tompkins Square Park Christimas tree lighting this past weekend. See Page 16.
Google it? Tech giant eyes D’town BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Amazon’s megadeal to create a headquarters in Long Island City — and the fact that it was greased with more than $1.5 billion in incentives from New York State — has dominated headlines over the past month. Under the plan, the Internet commerce giant would employ up to 25,000
Cabaret lives at Pyramid....... p. 19
people at the L.I.C. location. However, another deal also involving an enormous Internet-based corporation — though notably without benefiting from any financial incentives — hasn’t generated nearly as much buzz. In short, the “Googling” of Manhattan’s Lower West Side looks like it will continue, with the tech colossus seem-
ingly set to add yet another massive former industrial property — part of the St. John’s Building, in Hudson Square — to its portfolio. Yet, there are concerns among locals about Google’s sites being too “self-contained,” traffic impact, whether it would ratchet up develGOOGLE continued on p. 3
Push for Office of Hate Crimes Prevention ....... p. 8 90th b’day bash for Village activist Diether ..... p. 13