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Just out from Community Board 3: June's agenda, including the list of bars/restaurants seeking liquor licenses next month. There are some curious/interesting entries, including... Spitzer's Corner (101 Rivington), frequently cited for underage liquor sales, is asking to transfer its full...

Two-and-a-half hours into CB3's SLA Committee hearing, they've already breezed through 10 out of 32 applications. The highlights so far: Eddie Huang of Baohaus was not in the house as the committee scrutinized his proposal for Xiao Ye. His brother,...

CB3's land use committee has decided to delay the next scheduled discussion of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). The facilitators working with the panel, John Shapiro and Eve Baron, have been meeting individually with "stakeholders."  Last night...

Community Board 3 is out with their May agenda. As usual, we waste no time in turning our attention to the SLA Committee's docket, for intel about how many hours (5? 6? 7?) we'll be sweating it out with...

We have a followup on the deadly accident on Delancey Street early Monday morning. As previously reported, a pedestrian was struck by a car near the intersection of Delancey and Essex, around 4am. Because the body was not removed...

There will be some especially timely issues on the agenda when Community Board 3's transportation committee meets tonight.  Among them: a discussion about the impact on the neighborhood if Mayor Bloomberg goes ahead with his plan to close up...

No one can say Dennis Rosen, the new head of the State Liquor Authority, is not a patient man. For three-and-a-half hours last night, he sat on stage at P.S. 20 listening to a litany of complaints from dozens...

There was an interesting exchange at last night's Community Board 3 meeting concerning the elimination of the NYPD's specialized "quality of life teams." Sometimes referred to as "cabaret units," they focused on enforcement of laws at clubs, bars and...

Earlier this month we reported on the request by the Seward Park Co-op Board to add a mid-block crosswalk (and signal) on Clinton Street between Grand and East Broadway. The transportation committee of Community Board 3 voted for a...

Residents of the Lower East side came out in force last night to oppose several restaurants seeking liquor licenses. It was a tense night full of face to face confrontations between those residents and restaurant owners. Community Board 3...