New York Desk
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CITYWIDE
MAYOR ASKS ARTS GROUPS TO CONSIDER RAISING PRICES
Mayor Bloomberg has asked the city’s arts institutions to consider raising their recommended ticket prices to make up for funding lost because of the latest budget cuts, according to a report in Crain’s New York. The mayor met with leaders of the city’s public cultural institutions on Wednesday to discuss ideas for closing the gap caused by the 3% budget cuts the mayor has ordered up for all city agencies, excluding the Department of Education. The Department of Cultural Affairs will have to make up more than $3 million in funding for the remainder of the fiscal year. The mayor reportedly suggested that the institutions could raise the suggested ticket prices at his meeting with the Cultural Institutions Group, the 34 cultural institutions that operate on city-owned land. The Museum of Modern Art, a private institution, raised its ticket prices this fall to $20 from $12 when its expanded Midtown location reopened. “At this point, we don’t know how the reductions will be implemented,” said Sara Rutkowski, a spokeswoman for the cultural affairs department. She said the institutions would come up with plans in the next few weeks. “The onus is on the organizations themselves,” she said. The Department of Cultural Affairs would have to approve any increase.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
MANHATTAN
EUROPEAN INVESTORS BUY PROPERTY NEAR WTC SITE
Taking advantage of the weak dollar and the stability of the Manhattan market relative to global real estate markets, European firms continue to snap up New York properties. In the latest deal, Thames Greenwich LLC has bought 133-135 Greenwich St. for $24 million, according to Crain’s New York Business. The site, steps from the World Trade Center, will be transformed into a 30-story luxury condominium tower. The seller, YL Real Estate Developers, will retain a small interest in the project. The deal is scheduled to close in January. Other recent deals include a $210 million sale by the United Nations Development Corp. of a 373,000-square-foot tower at 222 E. 41st St. to Anglo Irish Bank, and the $36.5 million purchase of the building at 86 Chambers St. by British firm DCD Capital, which also grabbed 11 E. 44th St. for $45.5 million.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
POLICE BLOTTER
ONE DEAD, ANOTHER WOUNDED IN QUEENS SHOOTING
Two men were gunned down, one fatally, on a street at Jamaica, Queens, yesterday and police are searching for the killer. Herve St. Fleure, 23, of Brooklyn, was mortally wounded in front of 114-24 146th St. at 1:50 a.m., said police. Responding to a report of shots fired, police found St. Fleure lying face-down on the street, shot numerous times in the chest and abdomen. St. Fleure was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where he was pronounced dead 40 minutes after the shooting. Police found the surviving victim, Arnold London, 23, of Brooklyn, near the scene of the shooting. London, an ex-convict who has served time in prison, was shot in the right arm and managed to walk a short distance from the scene. He was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital. Police recovered a car with gunshot damage to the side window and door. There have been no arrests.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
BOY ON BICYCLE DIES AFTER BEING HIT BY CAR
A 12-year-old boy crossing the street on his bicycle was fatally struck by a passing car in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn yesterday evening, police said. At about 6:30 pm, the child was attempting to cross Gerritsen Avenue across from Marine Park when he was hit by a 1983 Toyota. Emergency workers responding to the scene found the child in critical condition, suffering from severe head trauma. He was taken to Coney Island Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The driver of the car, 37-year-old Louis Pascarella, who lives only a few blocks from the accident scene, was arrested hours later for driving with a revoked driver’s license. The investigation is ongoing, police said.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
UPSTATE
INTERPRETER KILLED IN IRAQ AT START OF JOURNEY HOME
A military interpreter from western New York died Saturday in Iraq when a roadside bomb blast hit the convoy that was starting her on the journey home, church officials said yesterday. Sergeant Cari Anne Gasiewicz, 28, of Cheektowaga, spoke fluent Arabic and served as an interpreter in the military intelligence unit of the Army. Military officials informed her family of her death Saturday, said her uncle, Marty Gasiewicz. Gasiewicz died outside of Baghdad Saturday afternoon while she was traveling to Kuwait, where she would have spent Christmas before being shipped home after the first of the year. She graduated from Depew High School and attended Canisius College before enlisting in the Army eight years ago, according to Gwen Mysiak, a spokeswoman for the family’s church, St. Philip the Apostle in Depew. She was deployed to Iraq a year ago.
– Associated Press