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Occupy Wall St. and Ruffalo whack fracking, pipeline BY ALBERT AMATEAU Environmental activists, one of them dressed in a hazmat suit and another as the Grim Reaper, filled the auditorium at P.S. 41, the Greenwich Village School, last week for a federal hearing on Spectra Energy’s proposed 30-inch natural gas pipeline. The crowd, many of whom had marched up to the Village from the Occupy Wall Street demonstration, waved “No Pipeline” signs
Photo by Jefferson Siegel
To serve and protect? A march against police violence on Saturday started out at Union Square. See Page 15.
C.B. 2 gives thumbs down on upzoning for Rudin plan BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Capping its five-year-long review of the redevelopment of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital site, last Thursday evening Community Board 2 issued a lengthy resolution, recommending that the zoning changes Rudin Management seeks for the project be denied unless
the developer adequately addresses numerous points the board has flagged in nine areas of community concern. In its 13-page-long resolution, the board stated its advisory opinion that there should be no allowed increase in development rights for the site; that the project should include affordable
housing; that Rudin should “provide actual financial support” for new public school seats in the area; that an underground parking garage be eliminated from the plan; that construction impacts on neighboring residents and
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and at one point shouted down a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff member. The three-hour Oct. 20 public comment session was not all guerilla theater. Despite Spectra’s assurance that the pipeline would meet or exceed federal safety measures, representatives of the Sierra Club, the Sane Energy Project, NYH2O and other environmental groups
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Read it and weep, Cooper tells store: Only 1 month relief BY AIDAN GARDINER The Cooper Union said it would not grant its tenant St. Mark’s Bookshop a rent reduction despite the outpouring of community support for the ailing outlet, and instead offered a different deal that would allow the store to pay back one month’s rent over an extended period of time. The bookstore’s coowners met with Cooper
Union Vice President TC Westcott on Tuesday afternoon and were informed of the college’s decision. Bob Contant, one of the co-owners, called the meeting “disappointing.” Contant and his business partner, Terry McCoy, along with various community leaders had lobbied for a rent reduction of $5,000 to $15,000, but the
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