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Day: November 10, 2008

Street Artists Protest Gerson-sponsored Vending Bills Friday, November 14th at City Hall

November 10, 2008

The “Gerson-Quinn Agreement” that NY City Council Member Alan Gerson (Washington Square Park is in his district) and Speaker Christine Quinn (Quinn covers the neighboring Village district) brokered was weak and gained little for the … Read more…

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Interview with Ada Louise Huxtable — "Dean of Architecture Critics" — on NYC under Mayor Bloomberg: "Here we practice the art of the deal, not the art of the city"

November 10, 2008

Ada Louise Huxtable, who is referred to as the “Dean of Architecture Critics,” is interviewed by Phillip Lopate in a large City section story in Sunday’s (November 9) New York Times. She talks about Mayor … Read more…

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Part II on the Washington Square Park Task Force coming Tomorrow…

November 10, 2008

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Realize that little things lead to bigger things ... And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of. ~ Pete Seeger

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