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December 20, 2018 Volume 3 • Number 30
The Paper of Record for East and West Villages, Little Italy, Lower East Side, Soho, Noho, and Chinatown
Google it! Tech titan announces $1 billion Downtown expansion BY SYDNEY PEREIR A
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he senior vice president of Google and its parent company, Alphabet, announced in a blog post Monday that the tech giant will expand its campus to offices at three locations in Hudson Square. Senior V.P. Ruth Porat said
the company will move employees into two buildings on Hudson St. — 315 and 345 Hudson St. — by 2020, and into 550 Washington St. in 2022, after the latter building is completed, according to Porat. google continued on p. 6
Mt. Sinai system will use Rivington House for behavioral health By Sydney Pereira
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t. Sinai Health System is planning to relocate its behavioral-health facility to Rivington House. The hospital signed a letter of intent with Rivington’s owner, Slate Property Group,
Mt. Sinai spokesperson Loren Riegelhaupt confirmed. Behavioral-health facilities, such as inpatient behavioral health, detoxification and rehab, at the Bernstein Pavilion near Stuyvesant Town will be relocated into a new, “oneSinai continued on p. 6
Photo by Puma Perl
Dan Sweeney bought the 11th Street Bar this fall because he thought it was the coolest bar — with the best music — in the East Village. See Page 23.
After Gov’s night in L just tweaks on track? By Julianne Cuba and Lincoln Anderson
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hristmas just might come early for local L train straphangers, who are now waiting with baited breath for Governor Cuomo to reveal findings from the late-night — and arguably last-minute — tour he took of the subway’s Su-
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perstorm Sandy-ravaged Brooklyn-Manhattan tunnel on Dec. 14. The pol — who promised to share in the next three weeks recommendations resulting from the cross-river underwater trek he took with engineering experts — toured the Canarsie Tunnel to see if there are better and faster ways to repair it than the
long-in-the-works, 15-month fix that state transit leaders are set to begin in April. “I need personally to feel confident in that decision, and frankly I don’t want to hear it second-hand, I want to hear it for myself,” Cuomo said on a platform of a Manhattan L train station during cuomo continued on p. 3
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