NY City News Service » Manhattan http://nycitynews.org A Product of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en PROTESTERS CAN’T RAIN ON PARADE http://nycitynews.org/2007/09/19/protesters-cant-rain-on-parade/ http://nycitynews.org/2007/09/19/protesters-cant-rain-on-parade/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:31:29 +0000 drew.geraets http://nycitynews.org/2007/09/19/protesters-cant-rain-on-parade/ [See post to watch Flash video] City Hall was bombarded with phone calls, letters and e-mails generated by an Internet campaign aimed at stopping the 22nd annual United American Muslim Day Parade along Madison Avenue, city officials said. (more…)

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]]> http://nycitynews.org/2007/09/19/help-for-ground-zero-heroes/feed/ SHERMAN CREEK’S TALL ORDER http://nycitynews.org/2007/03/11/high-rises-seen-in-sherman-creek%e2%80%99s-future/ http://nycitynews.org/2007/03/11/high-rises-seen-in-sherman-creek%e2%80%99s-future/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:47:14 +0000 Eric http://nycitynews.org/2007/03/13/high-rises-seen-in-sherman-creek%e2%80%99s-future/ sherman-creek-view1.jpg

UP THE CREEK: Zoning changes could bring high-rises to Sherman Creek.

BY NADIA ZONIS
NYCity News Service | Published in The New York Daily News
MANHATTAN – A bleak strip of land in upper Manhattan along the Harlem River, just across from Fordham Road in the Bronx, could soon undergo major rezoning to make way for high-rise apartment buildings.
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NYCity News Service

AUDIO REPORT: It Takes a Village to Tango

On Friday nights, tango moves out of its Argentinean confines and into a comfy little Ukrainian restaurant in the East Village, aptly named The East Village Ukrainian Restaurant. There, a group gathers off to the side of the restaurant to dance and listen to the music.
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NEW NEIGHBOR: Columbia University’s plans to expand north (see rendering) has spurred a neighborhood name debate.
BY DORIAN DAVIS
NYCity News Service | Published in the New York Daily News
MANHATTAN — As Columbia University seeks to expand, there is almost as much debate about what to call its target neighborhood — bounded by 125th and 135th streets, Broadway and Riverside Drive — as there is about the project itself.
Is it Manhattanville, as Columbia contends, or West Harlem?
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UNKINDEST CUT: Butcher Jose Cintron has suffered 30 years of broken promises.

BY TANZINA VEGA
NYCity News Service
MANHATTAN — The few customers who still shop at La Marqueta always ask “How much?� But the merchants at the storied East Harlem market have just one question on their minds these days: “When?�
For years, promises of a major overhaul and expansion have swirled around the nearly defunct market, once a bustling center of activity in El Barrio.Behind a glass case in the middle of the city-owned market’s last functioning building are newspaper clippings from 2003, touting grand renovation plans.

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