The Hudson River Park Trust is bringing back its popular summer fitness program with an expanded range of free activities in Lower Manhattan’s outdoor gymnasium. As part of the program, Tribeca’s Pier 25 at North Moore St. will be getting a free, weekly yoga meetup thanks to women’s sportswear brand Lolë. The Pier 25 yoga [...]
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BY KAITLYN MEADE | Independence Plaza North backed away from plans to deny the use of a new gym in the building to its lower rent tenants. When the small gym facility and playroom on the second floor of the Tribeca complex’s building at 40 Harrison St. opened earlier this month, an email went [...]
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BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The squeaky wheel gets the — bike-share docking station removed. Residents of 49 Renwick St. in Hudson Square were relieved Tuesday, May 21, to see workers wielding hand trucks dismantling and removing the new bike-share station lining Renwick St. at Spring St. in front of their home. Bike-share critic Sean Sweeney, [...]
Continue reading …BY KAITLYN MEADE AND JOSH ROGERS | Community Board 1’s Youth and Education Committee is calling for P.S. 150 to move to a larger school building somewhere in Lower Manhattan rather than go up to Chelsea, as the city proposed last month. While a hypothetical relocation to a larger school raised some eyebrows, the handful [...]
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Group attack on man in bar Police arrested a man on Sat. at a Soho karaoke bar and restaurant for what is being called a gang assault, after he and three or four others attacked another bar patron, police said. The victim, a 24-year-old Asian man from Connecticut was inside Biny, a karaoke bar at [...]
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NYC Community Media encourages our readers to donate what they can to help the people of Oklahoma recover from the devastating tornado that hit May 21. Our papers –Downtown Express, The Villager, Chelsea Now, Gay City News and the East Villager – cover communities which received support from around the country and the world after [...]
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By KAITLYN MEADE | With a shortage of public preschool seats in the area, two new, private preschools are opening up in Battery Park City this fall on South End Ave. A new Montessori school will open in September on the ground floor of the Regatta Building at 21 South End Ave., by the Battery [...]
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BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER | Red Hook, a point of land in Brooklyn that juts into New York City’s Upper Bay, was hard hit by Superstorm Sandy. But now the city has thrown Red Hook a lifeline. On weekends from May 25 through Labor Day, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., a free New York Water [...]
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By KAITLYN MEADE | Independence Plaza North is backing away from plans to deny the use of a new gym in the building to its lower rent tenants. When the small gym facility and playroom on the second floor of the Tribeca complex’s building at 40 Harrison St. opened earlier this month, an email went out [...]
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By KAITLYN MEADE | The Friends of Delury Square Park are hosting their first Spring Planting Day on Sat., June 1 to spruce up the small but well-loved — and used — green space on the corner of Fulton and Gold Sts. This is the group’s second big event since its creation last year. “It’s [...]
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