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Downtown councilmembers champion participatory budgeting: Voting is this week
Two staffers from Councilmember Christopher Marte's office, budget director René Castellanos, left, and legislative director Ian Wang, manned an outdoor voting site at Madison and Rutgers Streets for participatory budgeting on Mon., April 4. (Photo by Dashiell Allen)

Downtown councilmembers champion participatory budgeting: Voting is this week

April 5, 2022

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | It’s the closest New York City gets to direct Democracy. All residents of Downtown Councilmembers Erik Bottcher and Christopher Marte’s districts…

Bottcher’s can-do effort wins extra pickups for corner trash cans
Councilmember Erik Bottcher, center, was joined by Sanitation Commissioner Edward Grayson, to the right of him, and community leaders in announcing extra garbage-basket pickups for the West Side. (Councilmember Bottcher's office)

Bottcher’s can-do effort wins extra pickups for corner trash cans

March 17, 2022

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Councilmember Erik Bottcher and Sanitation Commissioner Edward Grayson stood with community leaders and residents Wednesday in Abingdon Square to announce…

Erik Bottcher gets in the groove in feel-good City Council inauguration
Councilmember Erik Bottcher with Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and his dad, Jerry Bottcher, who everyone at the swearing-in kept mistaking for Bill Clinton. (Office of Council Speaker Adams)

Erik Bottcher gets in the groove in feel-good City Council inauguration

March 11, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A capacity crowd of nearly 500 filled Chelsea’s Joyce Theater on Sat., March 5, to celebrate Erik Bottcher’s inauguration as the…

Bottcher: Lack of enforcement on dining sheds has ‘undermined confidence’ in sprawling program
Erik Bottcher said he and fellow Councilmembers Christopher Marte and Gale Brewer are trying to have input on the law that is currently being drafted in the City Council to oversee a permanent Open Restaurants program.

Bottcher: Lack of enforcement on dining sheds has ‘undermined confidence’ in sprawling program

February 23, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON| Open Restaurants dining sheds have been getting a pass, according to Councilmember Erik Bottcher. Not a dining pass — but a free…

Council removes D.O.T. — for now — as lead agency for Open Restaurants as it drafts bill for permanent program
A large, walkway-narrowing, on-sidewalk, temporary dining shed at Local 92, at 92 Second Ave., illustrates the city's current free-for-all, in terms of sidewalk cafes and roadway dining sheds. Though the COVID-inspired Open Restaurants program was meant to provide well-ventilated spaces, this shed appears to be completely enclosed. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Council removes D.O.T. — for now — as lead agency for Open Restaurants as it drafts bill for permanent program

February 18, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | So what exactly is on the menu now for Open Restaurants — and, for that matter, for stressed-out Downtowners driven to…

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