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In the News: The opposition to Hobby Lobby
“NOT EVERYONE IS PLEASED”
The Times interviews Tribecan Heide Fasnacht and Duane Park Patisserie’s Madeline Lanciani about the Hobby Lobby discussion — and neighbors’ opposition to it — in the TC (yet doesn’t mention that part). The reporter also talked to Chris Panayiotou at Gee Whiz, but that must have been well before it closed two weeks ago. From The Times: “The reaction has been mixed, with some residents feeling affronted that Hobby Lobby is opening in their neighborhood. Local groups and forums that are protesting the company’s arrival in TriBeCa point to Hobby Lobby’s work with organizations that oppose gay and transgender rights. They haven’t forgotten the private company’s lawsuit in 2014 to fight against having to provide insurance coverage for contraception for employees.
SURVIVOR STORIES
The Museum of Jewish Heritage’s new installation, “Survivor Stories: An Interactive Dialogue”, which was created with the USC Shoah Foundation and USC Libraries, plays a part in Taffy Brodesser-Akner reflection in The Times on what it means to grapple with Holocaust remembrance in modern times. It’s worth the read.
NEW WTC COMMAND CENTER IN FIDI
Yimby reports that the NYPD has ppened a new World Trade Center command center at 27 Cliff in Fidi, moving it from the 1st Precinct on Ericsson Place. From Yimby: “The command includes 126 personnel …with officers trained in active shooter response, radiation detection, and bio-weapons awareness. Officers are deployed in both uniformed and plainclothes roles across key WTC locations, including Memorial Plaza, the Oculus, and the Perelman Performing Arts Center.”
ILLEGAL TICKET VENDORS STILL AT WORK
Anyone who has walked down to The Battery recently know that the illegal — and super aggressive — ticket vendors are still preying on tourists at the park entrance. PIX11 has a story noting that the situation has gotten worse in the past year, despite the large signs installed that warn the public that all vending is illegal, and efforts of both the NYPD and the Parks Department.
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I am glad to see that opposition to Hobby Lobby is making news. Now more than ever, we need to support marginalized groups and our queer community.
Here’s a thought for you…. Shop where you want to shop, don’t shop where you don’t want to shop and stop thinking you have some right/obligation to tell the rest of us where we should/shouldn’t shop.
That’s funny since the owners of Hobby Lobby seem to have no problem telling people how they should live their lives.
Hmmm, I don’t see anything in my post that is telling any one where to shop. I am merely providing some information for people so they understand something about the business they might be patronizing. I am not telling any one what to do with that information, although I am expressing my personal opinion about what I choose to do with it. Last I checked, I still had that right.
Enough already! it’s just a place to shop not a place to have personal or political issues with. Everyone has a right to an opinion There is no need to create opposition. We live with enough of that.
Give me a break. Let people go to the store who either don’t care (most people) or who support them. Maybe people worried about the neighborhood should spend more time removing the homeless lunatics from the street and less time worrying about a store who may have supported causes that some don’t agree with.
I believe that the WTC command center displaced the mounted police when they “temporarily” moved into Ericsson Place and there were promises that the horse stables would return when the WTC command center found a permanent home.
See You in 18 Months?
May 20, 2011 • Community News
The mounted officers of the 1st Precinct sure don’t want to leave Tribeca, because they have a bit of a whisper campaign going on. I just got this email from reader Suellen Epstein: “A neighbor just called me to report that this evening she spoke to (an anonymous) officer at the stables and they are told they are moving out in two days. It will get a renovation in the hundreds of thousands and then they will come back after 18 months. Another couple called this woman and said the officers were told they’re moving out on Monday because the NYPD looked at other proposed sites and passed on them.” (No word yet from CB1’s Julie Menin, who had been promised another meeting before anything was decided.) If the stables really do come back in 18 months, we can certainly cope. But does anyone out there trust the NYPD? So far they haven’t exactly been forthcoming.
UPDATE 5/21: Julie Menin had a conference call yesterday with the NYPD, followed by “additional discussions.” She’s expecting a letter from Ray Kelly late Monday or early Tuesday morning. “I will give an update to the community then,” she emailed.
UPDATE 5/24: At the CB1 meeting, Julie Menin announces that the stables will indeed be moving away for 18 months. She has it in writing from the NYPD that the stables will come back….
https://tribecacitizen.com/2011/05/20/see-you-in-18-months/
I know it’s probably not in an LPC area – but it’s so ugly. It’s sad we get to walk through Tribeca and enjoy this architecture that is protected and then see this garish orange hobby lobby signs surrounding an enormous building. It’s cheesy and cheapens the entire area