As housing affordability protections, such as rent stabilization, face renewal or expiration in June, 2015, the Planning Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) has weighed in with a resolution that urges lawmakers in Albany to preserve and strengthen measures to protect tenants. Although CB1’s role in this matter is advisory, such a resolution can signal…
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Battery Park City Gets a New Green Thumb
Last month, the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy welcomed Ryan Torres as its new Horticulture Foreperson, replacing Eileen Calvanese, who retired in August. Since May, 2011, Mrs. Torres served as horticulturalist for the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County on Long Island and she was director for the Clark Botanic Garden in Albertson, a…