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EDITORIAL
Hospital can’t close
As the clock continues to tick on St. Vincent’s Hospital’s survival, it’s only making it increasingly clear that Greenwich Village — as well as all of Manhattan south of 59th St. — simply cannot afford to lose this key healthcare institution.

TALKING POINT
The fault lies not in the M.T.A., but in our legislators
By Francis Menton
After running a large surplus as recently as 2006, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suddenly in late 2008 projected a deficit of some $700 million for 2009 and announced a round of major service cuts to plug the gap. Topping the list for elimination was the Village’s own M8 crosstown bus.


Letters to the Editor

Mixed Use

Under Cover

Police Blotter

Transit Sam


Urstadt, a neighborhood founder, reflects on his last days in Battery Park City
By Julie Shapiro
Forty-two years after Charles Urstadt founded the Battery Park City Authority, his days on the board are numbered.

Landmarking is added to Allen St. building’s story
By Albert Amateau
The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has unanimously approved the landmark designation of a 180-year-old Federal-style row house on the Lower East Side.

Withdrawal on Sullivan

Who wants to ask a question about life or love?
By Josh Rogers
Regis Philbin is not a name that gets bandied about much in academia, but one college president says there was an important lesson to be learned from “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”: The audience is almost always right.

After school students learn about Haiti
Even as they munched on their after school snacks, about 20 students from P.S. 89 were attuned to the many New Yorkers that might be going without food at the very same moment.


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News


L.M.D.C. blasts lawsuit; celebrates $100 million settlement

City reveals Chambers St. detours

Building a bridge to Liberty in Albany

Rules & repairs for Southbridge garage
Southbridge Towers residents who park their car in the complex’s garage noticed some changes this month when a new garage operator took over, and more changes are coming.

Press adds to hospital trauma, doctors say
By Lincoln Anderson
As St. Vincent’s Hospital struggles to stay afloat, top physicians at a “visibility rally” Sunday said a main obstacle the hospital is facing is negative media coverage. 

Governor taps Thompson to lead B.P.C.

Bar fire

Fire hit Soho building as its residents were asleep
By Lincoln Anderson
An early-morning fire in a Soho building sent loft residents fleeing for their lives.

Small fire on Wall St.

Fresh food at old fish market? Quinn says do it
Council Speaker Christine Quinn voiced support for a fresh foods market in the Seaport.

African cemetery’s last piece, a visitor’s center, opens Saturday
By Julie Shapiro
A new visitor center next to the African Burial Ground tells the story of the thousands buried there more than 200 years ago.

P.S. 276 looks to expand to 2nd grade this fall

Photographer/safety monitor

 


Trav S.D. on Theater
BY TRAV S.D.
Our Mr. S.D. contemplates March’s lion/lamb conundrum.

Look Ahead with Stephanie Buhmann
BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN
Worthy March gallery destinations.

Koch on Film
By Ed Koch


ARTS DOWNTOWN

Film Forum, at 40, finally honored
By Jerry Tallmer
MoMA gives Cooper free reign for ‘Carte Blanche.’

See ‘Never Can Say Goodbye’ before it has to 


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Volume 22, Number 41
The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan
February 26 - March 4 , 2010

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