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New Developments in the News

MARCH 7, 2011

Mayor Bloomberg says hands off San Gennaro fest; West Street garbage garage gets hit with restraining order.

Mayor Bloomberg has granted Little Italy’s San Gennaro Festival the right to continue at its full length in September. Community boards and upscale boutiques in the neighborhood had suggested the 85-year-old festival be cut off at Kenmare Street rather than run from Canal to Houston on Mulberry Street because festival revelers might not be the sort who would shop in their stores. Local community boards were, however, given assurance that mafia t-shirts would no longer be sold at the festival.

The New York State Supreme Court granted a temporary restraining order against the construction of the planned city sanitation garage on West and Spring Streets. The order was the result of a property line dispute involving the neighboring St. John Center, which, with some of the area’s community boards, has opposed the construction of the garage—due to its size—since 2007. The 427,000-square-foot, 120-foot-tall garage will be used to store and wash trucks, house employees’ facilities and temporarily store trash. The Center and community organizations hope the mayor will call for new plans that scale down the building’s size.

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