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The community composting site Big Reuse, located under the Queensboro Bridge, is pictured in 2018. (Courtesy of Big Reuse)
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS In the shadow of the Queensboro Bridge, a battleground has formed between what may seem, at least superficially, to be two sides of the same coin: a community composting site and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation.
The composting site, Big Reuse, is the tenant and the parks department its landlord. For years, their relationship has been symbiotic: The parks department allows Big Reuse to use its site for free, and Big Reuse turns the agency s yard waste into fresh, nutrient-rich soil.
Lisa Blau is pictured in a courtesy photo. | Courtesy of Lisa Blau
Investor with ties to NYC real estate industry launching voter outreach effort
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New York City primaries are usually afterthoughts for most voters: Mayor Bill de Blasio clinched victory in 2013 with just 22 percent of registered Democrats casting ballots.
Now a Manhattan resident with an interest in voter turnout and ties to the city’s deep-pocketed real estate industry wants to reverse that trend.
Lisa Blau, an investor whose husband runs the towering development firm Related Companies, is launching a project to lure New Yorkers to the polls in the upcoming primary next June. She recently registered the Be Counted NYC committee with the state Board of Elections to raise money for the effort.