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...Monday would start in 2012—are complete. Echoing suggestions proposed in the House Renewal Report—a 112-page document of wide-ranging residential recommendations released by the College administration in April—the GSD students also noted the need to bolster House interactions via neighborhood-wide facilities. Though the class is not advising the College administration on House renovations in a professional capacity, Fan said College administrators will be present when the GSD students deliver their final projects at the end of the semester. —Staff writer Bita M. Assad can be reached...
...preparations haven't gone unchallenged. The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Pittsburgh over the police treatment of a Montana-based organization, Seeds of Peace Collective, which set up mobile kitchens and delivery trucks to feed protesters for free. The ACLU alleges that police hounded the collective from one neighborhood to the next with a series of petty charges. While ACLU lawyers failed to stop police action against the group, they did successfully sue to open Pittsburgh's iconic Point State Park to groups advocating action on climate change and women's rights...
...neighborhood where I lived as a child, where for decades orderly rows of sturdy brick homes lined each block, is now the urban equivalent of a boxer's mouth, more gaps than teeth. Some of the surviving houses look as if the wrecker's ball is the only thing that could relieve their pain. On the adjacent business streets, commercial activity is so palpably absent you'd think a neutron bomb had been detonated - except the burned-out storefronts and bricked-over windows suggest that something physically destructive happened as well. (See the most important cars of all time...
...first section is open to the public and runs between Gansevoort Street and 20th Street. As Manhattan's newest attraction, it has an almost symbiotic connection to the hotel, feeding an endless stream of strollers to the Standard, while allowing hotel guests to enjoy a landscaped walkway through the neighborhood...
Drive along Kalayaan Avenue, home to Filipino-Chinese TV chef Bruce Lim, and you might think you've come to the wrong address: lined with pawnshops, sari-sari (convenience) stores and stalls hawking spit-roasted chickens, the neighborhood is decidedly lacking in the atmosphere you might expect to signal Manila's hottest dining ticket. Nonetheless, it is there - in a nondescript building with a steep bamboo-lined staircase leading up to Chef's Table, instantly recognizable to fans as the rooftop kitchen cum dining room used in Lim's shows. Your visit isn't being filmed, but in this intimate...