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| November 2008 - We do think Andy Warhol would adore the fact that he continues to be an pop icon of hipster style long after his death. Here sits the latest homage to the New York-based international pop artist Warhol. Can you guess where this circa 2008-2009 portrait is located? Andy would have been so proud. Will we finally get to see Moby in swim trunks hanging out here on the roof? Well for one you know it is on the lower east side of Manhattan, but do you know more? Click the photo for full details. Filed under: Andy Warhol Swims in a Rooftop Pool |
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Fall 2008 - The 30 people who share the title, 'Educator' at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum have been considering the formation of a Union for several years. They are the part-time and per diem workers who are the 'Tour Guides'. Over the past few years, the popularity of the Tenement Museum has risen and the quality of the tours provided by the Educators each day has been cited by many tourists as, 'Excellent!' In this same period of time, many of the Educators have seen their colleagues fired with no notice, no recourse and no termination or severance pay. The Educators are interested in unionizing yet their efforts to do so are being blocked by the administrators of the Museum. The administrators do not want to give their Educators these benefits: guaranteed hours, vacation time, sick leave, health care and due process prior to termination. Museum management repeatedly has said it only will recognize a union that includes both full-time and part-time employees. Full-time workers, so far, haven’t organized.
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October 2008 - The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has supplied $5 million in funding for renovations to the Allen Street mall, according to the city’s Parks Department. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is a municipal partnership group created after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center to help redevelop the city south of Houston Street. This past spring, the city finished the renovation of a one-block stretch of the mall between Delancey and Broome Streets as a demonstration of what could and might be done in the future with the Allen and Pike Street Malls. The refurbished block now has a brick path lined with benches, shrubs and sculptures.
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