Seen & Heard: Occupy Wall Street Reaches Out to Residents

••• @EricHazard tweeted “CB1 hosting a meeting Thurs. at 6 p.m. between the downtown residents and Occupy Wall Street. 250 Broadway, 19th floor.” (via @JulieShapiro)

••• From council member Margaret Chin’s office: “Due to mounting residential complaints, Occupy Wall Street has taken several steps to respond to the needs of the community. While all noise and other complaints should be officially reported to NYC’s 311, residents can also contact OWS directly. To reach an OWS Community Affairs representative 24/7 please call: 917-524-7311. Or to email OWS Community Affairs use: owscommunityaffairs@gmail.com. To reach an OWS Community Affairs representative specifically about concerns regarding local small businesses call 917-524-6845.” LOL!!! If I had a complaint with OWS, I’d go bang a drum in their ears at 1 a.m. Plus, can we agree that calling 311 for a noise complaint is an exercise in futility? I’m over 311, not least of all because I have to sit through a bunch of prerecorded crap before I get ignored by a live person.

••• From the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center: “Plans to convert the six-story former office building at 67 Liberty Street into a 20-story residential tower resumed in early October. New Line Structures is now leading the construction, which was put on hold in late 2009, and has crews preparing for concrete pours on the final five upper floors. The $5.5 million project will add more than 27,000 total square feet of condominium space to the Financial District’s growing residential population.”

••• Le Pain Quotidien is hosting a Tertulia chamber music concert (!) tonight. “Tertulia, the Spanish word for an intellectual, salon-style social gathering, is the name of a new chamber music series here in NYC. Tertulia hosts classical concerts in boutique venues, and we present performances in a way that allows audiences to enjoy food, drink, music and conversation.” Sounds nice (but no, Adam, that doesn’t mean I want to go). Tickets here.

••• And now, back to FiDi: There’s a new community organization called the FiDi Association: “The FiDi Association was formed by luxury brands, retailers, and hotels that operate in the Financial District of Manhattan and contribute to the transformation of this neighborhood from a business district to a vibrant residential community with fine dining, high-end retail, cultural establishments and expansive parklands.” You can sign up for a newsletter.

 

2 Comments

  1. Shame they didn’t advertise the chamber music concert more (though it looks like they sold out anyways) it sounds like a lovely idea (and hearing music that close is always such an intimate experience)

  2. @Liat: And I only found out about it because I came upon it randomly on Twitter.