That are charging great rents but the experiences are not that great. I see a lot of opportunity to provide otherwise improvement to that corner, you guys all know the corner, we have a month to month rent with the bike shop that says basically free bikes on the outside of the building. Commissioner johnson. Thank you. You can have a seat. Thank you though. Ill be pretty short here. This project hasnt changed other than the agreement with the childcare facility from last time. I can still consider this a land use issue. The changes to the project makes it more of a residential project with transient occupancy and with the online projects, i try to side on the side of the project sponsor and sort of see the bright side of what is being proposed for us. On this particular one, i think there are issues with the lot and i dont think of it just as the dividing line, spoken about by various people in Public Comment but generally speaking with that corner lot with the elements of things makin
I would say as a contrasting to the project we just heard, there is public space and retail and other things that sort of integrated into the highly commercial district located in. I would say, i do think i agree, popus has been challenging for us. We have had comment from the public in the past that verifies something that anybody who has been to some of the Larger Hotels can see that they can be hard to find, hard to access. I think a group of youth tried to go to all and some they didnt have access to, some they couldnt find. There are renderings of roof top space in the package regardless. Is that just for hotel guests . Speaking through the chair, commissioner johnson, well build the roof top whether its the popus or not. If the direction is to put it on stevenson, which is where we would prefer rather than the staff recommendation, well still have the same roof deck that you see in the renderings. Thank you. So it sounds like then if we put it on the roof we would just have less
From war, about 1,000,0001 2 iraqis had recently come across the border. It was the last open border between iraq and any other country, these people were largely the professional class and tended to be doctors, lawyers, novelists, filmmakers, engineers, people who were running from the chaos that followed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the civil war that began. I was there because i felt as if the kind of reporting i was reading tended to be battle reporting, if there was any kind of close detailed reporting it was on the experiences of soldiers, military maneuvers and that sort of thing and that is valid and valuable but there seem to be great missing piece which is the people who experienced war in the modern era tend to be civilians. Now that we dont have a frontline warfare situation anymore, the kind of work i do is not daily news reporting. I dont tend to go in and out of places quickly, i dont like to immerse myself in situations, sometimes this is slow journalism, the slo
For Fishermans Wharf to succeed, to go from north beach to Fishermans Wharf, we had an area that was dicey to say it mildly the the people who took on an amazing transformation is one of a kind and i think its pride of that success, including giving large numbers of people the ability to be live in decent housing and par take in how good housing lifts you up from nowhere to somewhere. That makes me want to stand with the remaining side, literally the pivotal side of the project to be a housing site. I have walked the site four times since we left, had our meeting and i have gone around it. I have observed it in the morning, in the afternoon, in the middle of the day at lunch. I walk down to the wharf and each time i go by, you can only be proud of this particular part of town. Its amazing. Its a lovely neighborhood and everything about it works. And its for that very reason that i have to stand by not supporting the hotel but looking for a Housing Development on this portion. Commissio
[inaudible conversations] encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is cia bird. Im in the new executive director of the leon leavy center for biography, which is celebrating the ten inch year now, all due to shelby white and the leon leave levery foundation, and i want to advertise our new alliance with bio, our first joint we sponsor the event with them and also curtsy of will swift here, of the president of bio, we have our also going to be doing cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next way. That will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. Also want to advertise i put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for the new the annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop. For aspiring biographers. So if you know anyone who is aspiring, encourage them to apply. Im really thrilled were able to do this event to honor bob weil, and i introduced now w