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Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a $723 million funding commitment Monday to finish the Manhattan greenway, a pedestrian and bicycle path around the entire island of Manhattan. (NYC Mayor s Office (left); Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office (right))
NEW YORK, NY The city s long-held goal of building a waterfront path around the island of Manhattan for walkers and cyclists inched closer to reality on Monday, when Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city would spend $723 million to complete the project by 2029. We re going to be doing something unprecedented all around Manhattan: to have the greenway finally completed, de Blasio said Monday as he unveiled his $98.6 billion post-pandemic recovery budget.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg came to the Lower East Side this morning to announce that the Seward Park project, delayed for four decades, was finally a “done deal.”
Standing in an abandoned building of the Essex Street Market with some of the city’s biggest developers, community partners and neighborhood activists, he called Essex Crossing (the official name of the project) a “wonderful thing” that will bring “the new housing, jobs and open space Lower East Siders want and need and deserve.”
Word got out yesterday that the residential, commercial and community-oriented complex would be built by L+M Development Partners, BFC Partners, and Taconic Investment Partners. They’re paying the city $180 million for the site and investing a total of $1.1 billion to build the new community at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge over the next decade. Groundbreaking is expected in the spring of 2015; the first buildings are projected to open in the summer of 2018. The architectura
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At the helm of the NYPD, the nation’s largest police force, which is acknowledged as an international model for its cutting-edge crime-fighting techniques and facing down terrorist threats, is Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, a former Marine who likes a challenge.
Ray Kelly recalls how when he was only seven years old. he’d often hop on the subway and travel down the West Side of Manhattan alone to have lunch with his mom who was a coat check girl at Macy’s, the nation’s biggest department store.
His dad, James Francis Kelly, spent twenty years as a milkman, first driving a horse-drawn carriage over cobblestone streets and later upgrading to a standup motorized half wagon.