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  Mayor Bloomberg Holds Press Conference at Seward Park High School

  Mayor Bloomberg stopped by Seward Park High School to address the city on the precipice of Hurricane Sandy.

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  Rivington Businesses Must Remove Sidewalk ATMs

  The mayor recently signed the sidewalk ATM bill. Now the first set of neighborhood offenders have already been singled out.

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  Mayor Bloomberg Spotted at Rangers Game Last Night

  There was no alleged Bermuda trip for Mayor Bloomberg last night, on the eve of the current snowstorm.

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  City Council Approves Legislation Against Sidewalk ATMs

  As residents of the Lower East Side, it’s all too familiar to see soulless ATMs dotting almost every storefront on any given block. Some are marked by cheapo paper signs screaming “get cash,” [...]

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  Lower Eastside Girls Club Groundbreaking Ceremony

  Last Friday afternoon, officials from the NYC Housing Development Corporation, the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, elected state and local leaders, and project developer Dermot Company were [...]

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  Recap: Ed Koch at Tenement Museum’s Tenement Talks

  Last night, the Tenement Museum bookshop was a zoo.  It was the hot ticket in the neighborhood, as former mayor Ed Koch was in the house for the heralded Tenement Talks series. The event was a sold out affair, and [...]

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  Pike Street Median Under Construction

  The Boulevard Pilot Project, which began last year along Allen Street, is now entering the next phase of development [PDF].  In the last couple weeks, DOT personnel mobilized and broke ground further south on the [...]

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  City Hall to Charge for Film Permits

  Since New York City established a film office back in 1966, obtaining permits for filming purposes has been free of charge.  But all that is changing, thanks to Mayor Bloomberg.  In a move to help alleviate budget [...]