Category: Community
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Naming a Neighborhood: MiMa Makes Three
Locals may scoff at MiMa, the newest moniker for the West Side neighborhood known as Clinton or Hell’s Kitchen, but they’ve been arguing about their neighborhood’s name for years.
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Remaking the Garment District
It takes a team to raise the Garment District. More than 70 urban planners, fashion designers, architects and community members have launched Making Midtown, a project that aims to provide solutions to Manhattan’s threatened fashion and manufacturing hub in midtown by 2012. Making Midtown is the second phase in an effort to bring the stakeholders…
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Local Libraries Seize E-reader Opportunity, Large Public Libraries Lag
As the digital age consumes traditional print media, smaller libraries add programs offering tablet readers available for lending. Larger libraries provide remote access through a mobile app, but struggle to meet demands for loanable e-readers due to budget limitations.
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