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Union Sq. north-end renovation gets final approval
The Villager, Volume 75, Number 52 | May 17 - 23 2006

CB5 approves re-design of Union Square Park's north end and letter to the editor
Town & Village, April 13, 2006 and letter to the editor by Eadie Shanker, April 27, 2006

Union Square Park — soon with takeout menu
Metro, JAN 26, 2006

Pols say Union Sq. restaurant must go through Albany
The Villager, Volume 75, Number 22 | October 19 - 22, 2005

New push on Union Sq. playground work
New York Daily News, October 18, 2005

Getting on same page
Pavilion politics
The Villager, Volume 75, Number 11 | August 3 - 9, 2005

Someone has to protect the park
Lopez’s park position confusing
Lopez wrong on the facts
The Villager, Volume 75, Number 10 | July 27 - Aug. 2, 2005

Turns the tables on Partnership
Restaurant underused by day

The Villager, Volume 75, Number 8 | June 13- 20, 2005

Stringer: First course of action on restaurant is review in Albany
The Villager, Volume 75, Number 05, June 29 - July 5, 2005

He’s no rubber stamp
The Villager, Volume 75, Number 05, June 29 - July 5, 2005

How Area Activists Kept Park's Restaurant a Seasonal One
New York Times, New York Region, June 28, 2005

Clique planning Union Sq. N.
The Villager, Volume 75, Number 4 | June 15- 21, 2005

Manhattan Union Square Restaurant Cancelled
"The city has withdrawn its plans for a permanent restaurant in Union Square Park after opponents argued that the park, with its history of radicalism was unsuitable for such a private enterprise. The restaurant,partof a $14 million redesign of the 165-year-old park, would have been situated on the north end in an abandoned pavilion, where a restaurant open only in the summer operates".
New York Times, Metro Briefing, June 15, 2005, p. B-7

Union Sq. process still distasteful
The Villager, Volume 74, Number 3 | June 8- 14, 2005

Who cooked up pavilion change?
The Villager, Volume 74, Number 3 | June 8- 14, 2005

The Parks Department's fuzzy math
Town and Village, May 26, 2005

CB5 ignoring residents' views on Union Sq. Park
Town and Village, Vol. 57, No. 17, May 19, 2005

Reducing restaurant makes rehab plan go down easier
The Villager, Volume 74, Number 55 | May 25 - 31 , 2005

Debate over Union Square's future is no picnic in the park
The New York Observer, February 21, 2005

After Kerry campaign, district leader thinks locally
* Union Sq.: Keen Berger focuses on the restaurant issue, deploring the mayor’s desire to have a permanent eatery in the park. The restaurant now there should relinquish its space, which should be converted into a children’s playground, she argues.
The Villager, Volume 74, Number 41 | February 16 - 22, 2005

Board 5 gives qualified approval to Union Sq. plan
The Villager, Volume 74, Number 41 | February 16 - 22, 2005

Full definition of Union Square Park proposal is urged
Town and Village, February 10, 2005

Board 5 Parks Committee approves pavilion restaurant
U.S.C.C. flouts bylaws
Invokes Jacobs’s caveat
The Villager, Volume 74, Number 40 | February 9 - 15, 2005

Community is being force fed a pavilion restaurant
Conflict du jour:The Union Sq. pavilion restaurant
The Villager, Volume 74, Number 39 | February 2 - 8, 2005

CB5 pre-approves Union Square Park renovation, despite protests
Town and Village, Volume 57, Number 2, February 3, 2005

Pavilion restaurant is distasteful
The Villager, Volume 74, Number 38 | Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2005

Some wary of Union Sq. BID growth
The Villager, Volume 73, Number 42 | February 18 - 24, 2004

Tempers boil over bistro in Union Sq.N. project
The Villager, Volume 74, number 23, October 6-12 2000

Union Sq. N. plan lacks support
The Villager, Volume 74, Number 27 | November 03 - 09, 2004
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_79/letterstotheeditor.html

Can’t stomach restaurant in park
The Villager, Volume 74, Number 27 | November 10 - 16, 2004

Union Sq. pavilion bistro keeps getting poor reviews
Volume 74, Number 32, December 15 - 21, 2004

 

 

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