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November 15, 2018
Volume 88 • Number 44
It’s elementary, say
pols, parents, kids:
School can’t move
Up in Hell’s Kitchen,
Pr. 97 design plans
starting to heat up
BY SYDNEY PEREIRA
The Hudson River Park
Trust is beginning to
hash out another “puzzle
piece” of the 4.5-mile West
Side waterfront park this fall
— this time in the park’s Hell’s
Kitchen section.
After Governor Andrew
SCHOOL continued on p. 3
Cuomo shelled out $50 million
in funding for the park earlier
this year, the Trust is partnering
with a design fi rm, !melk,
to fi eld ideas for $30 million in
renovations at Pier 97, at W.
57th St. The process started at
the Community Board 4 Wa-
BY COLIN MIXSON
After a developer refused
to renew an awardwinning
Tribeca public
school’s lease, the city is asking
community members to shuffl e
the school kids between three
schools in fi ve years.
That’s according to Assemblymember
Deborah Glick,
who rallied with colleagues,
civic leaders and pint-sized
scholars outside their Greenwich
St. school on Tues., Nov.
13.“
Forcing students to relocate
to a temporary home…should
On Saturday, in advance of Veterans Day, antifascists, including a Veterans for
Peace member, above, protested Donald Trump in Washington Square.
L project is hell
on E. 14th shops
BY SYDNEY PEREIRA
East Village small businesses
are already taking
the heat months
ahead of the planned April 27
“offi cial” start date for the L
train shutdown.
A stretch of 14th St. between
First Ave. and Avenue A
has been beset by construction
work to add entrances and exits
for the L train at Avenue A,
eventual elevators for the train,
and prep the area as a staging
area for the tunnel repairs.
Although residents’ complaints
have been numerous
and well publicized, local merchants
have also already been
hammered, seeing their revenue
plummet.
“We’re experiencing very
low business,” said Leo Katehis,
PHOTO BY MILO HESS
a manager at the Lower
East Side Coffee Shop.
A majority of Katehis’s customers
are walk-in customers,
but most passersby now take
a pedestrian walkway set up
in the street that leads them
to First Ave., rather than the
narrow sidewalk to access fi ve
stores, including a dry clean-
PIER continued on p. 30
14TH continued on p. 3
They’re going nuts over Nutella Cafe ..............p. 24
Manhattan Happenings: A Warhol at the Whitney...........p. 19 rt, talks, tours ........p. 25
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