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December 20, 2018
Volume 88 • Number 49
Santa looks like he’s working all the angles at Canal St. and Sixth Ave. in Hudson
Square. So is Google, which just announced a $1 billion expansion plan in the
After Gov’s night in L
just tweaks on track?
BY JULIANNE CUBA AND
LINCOLN ANDERSON
Christmas just might
come early for local
L train straphangers,
who are now waiting with
baited breath for Governor
Cuomo to reveal fi ndings
from the late-night — and
arguably last-minute — tour
he took of the subway’s Superstorm
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
PHOTO BY MILO HESS
long-in-the-works, 15-month
fi x that state transit leaders
are set to begin in April.
“I need personally to feel
confi dent 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
neighborhood.
Google it! Tech titan
announces $1 billion
Downtown expansion
BY SYDNEY PEREIRA
The 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 offi ces 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.
Mt. Sinai system will
use Rivington House
for behavioral health
BY SYDNEY PEREIRA
Mt. 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,
GOOGLE continued on p. 6
Mt. Sinai spokesperson Loren
Riegelhaupt confi rmed.
Behavioral-health facilities,
such as inpatient behavioral
health, detoxifi cation and rehab,
at the Bernstein Pavilion
near Stuyvesant Town will be
relocated into a new, “one-
SINAI continued on p. 6
CUOMO continued on p. 3
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