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This decade has been cruel to New York.

Brad Lander, former director of the Pratt Center and candidate for the 39th Council District, issued a plan to make the New York port the city's greenest port on the eastern seaboard, joined by the New York League of Conservation Voters and residents of the Columbia Street area.

Here is one form the downturn took in New York: The bulldozers destroying our neighborhoods suddenly ran out of gas. And now families are coming out of their homes and looking around as if a bombardment has paused. We’re talking to each other on the corner. As the gleaming buildings stand over us, half-finished and frozen in space – we look back at the Bloomberg economy standing there and feel our true feelings rise up.

With the deadline for applications for the first round of grants from the $7.2bn set aside for broadband adoption projects in President Obama's stimulus plan rapidly approaching (Aug14), members of many of NYC communities met to discuss how best to achieve results. Representatives of the City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DOITT) poured cold water on many aspirations stating that most, if not all, the cash would go to rural projects.