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May 6-12, 2009

2009-05-06T18:22:00.000-07:00

The Villager (Volume 78 - Number 48 / May 6 - 12 , 2009)

SCOOPY'S NOTEBOOK
Power lunch doesn’t satisfy: Hudson Square residents have tried just about everything to make it clear to City Council Speaker Chris Quinn that a three-district Department of Sanitation megagarage at Spring St.’s western end is unacceptable to them. Adding major muscle to their message, James Gandolfini lunched with Quinn at a Greenwich St. restaurant in Tribeca, where he lives, two weeks ago; as they broke bread together, the actor-turned-activist tried to impress on her how unfair neighbors feel the plan — which they say violates “fair share” — really is.

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April 3, 2009

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The Huffington Post: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

"Enough is enough", said Tribeca resident Kirsten Dunst. After all, the neighborhood already has over 400 UPS and FedEx trucks and a garbage garage. Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, James Gandolfini, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Michael Stipe, John Slattery and Talia Balsam agree. Last week, these folks along with 600+ people gathered at the Saatchi & Saatchi building on Hudson Street to protest the Bloomberg Administration's plan to dump a three-district, 120' high garbage depot, a 34,000 gallon fuel storage facility and a 5,000 ton salt shed onto the neighborhood.

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April, 2009

2009-04-01T14:31:00.000-07:00

The Tribeca Trib ( Jim Stratton's City Charette)

"Why shoehorn three sanitation districts onto Canal Street? It's a site barely large enough for one district, which now resides there. And there's an alternative."

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Mar 27, 2009

2009-03-27T18:43:00.000-07:00

Celebrity Baby Blog

JENNIFER CONNELLY AND FAMILY PAUSE FOR A CAUSE
Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany and son Stellan, 5 ½, stopped for a photo Monday night at the Hudson Rise Picnic benefit in New York City.

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March 25-31, 2009

2009-03-25T14:18:00.000-07:00

The Villager (Volume 78 - Number 42 / March 25 -31, 2009)

Billed as a neighborhood “picnic” to rally for a scaled-back version of a proposed 120-foot-tall Sanitation garage on Spring St., a boldface-name event Monday night drew some of the most famous residents of Hudson Square and North Tribeca, who joined about 600 of their neighbors at the party space of one of the world’s most famous ad firms, Saatchi & Saatchi.

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March 20, 2009

2009-03-20T14:07:00.000-07:00

NY1 Interview: Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson & Richard Barrett

Legendary performers Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson criticized the mayor over a planned sanitation garage in SoHo on Thursday's edition of "Road To City Hall."

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March 1, 2009

2009-03-01T13:44:00.000-08:00

NY Magazine: Interview with Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson

“This is typical,” Reed exclaims. “To put this at the apex of two parks is insane, so defaming the neighborhood, so insulting, so pointless. When you’ve just had a park restored.”

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February 11-17, 2009

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The Villager (Volume 78 - Number 37 / February 11-17, 2009, 2009)

OPPONENTS DUMP A LAWSUIT ON SPRING ST. MEGAGARAGE
By Albert Amateau
The neighborhood groups opposed to the Department of Sanitation’s proposed three-district garage on Spring St. filed a lawsuit on Feb. 3 to block the $500 million project proposed for the UPS property between Washington and West Sts.

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April 27-May 3, 2007

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Volume 76, Number 48 | April 25 - May 1, 2007

GARAGE FOES STEP UP PRESSURE ON SANITATION DEPT.
By Albert Amateau
A coalition of civic groups in the Hudson Sq. and Tribeca neighborhoods are stepping up efforts to turn back the Department of Sanitation’s plan for a jumbo garage for three sanitation districts on United Parcel Service property just north of new high-end luxury residences.
The newly organized Community Sanitation Steering Committee is raising environmental, fair-share and land-use objections to the D.S.N.Y. project on Spring and Washington Sts. that the department outlined at a contentious January hearing.

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April 25-May 1, 2007

2007-04-25T18:10:00.000-07:00

Volume 76, Number 48 | April 25 - May1, 2007

GARAGE FOES WANT THE DIRT ON WHY CITY SWITCHED SITE
By Albert Amateau
A coalition of civic groups in the Hudson Square and Tribeca neighborhoods are stepping up efforts to turn back the Department of Sanitation’s plan for a jumbo garage for three Sanitation districts on United Parcel Service property on Spring St. just north of new high-end luxury residential buildings.

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