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Preservation Battles: Garden Becomes Focal Point of Fight Over Frick Expansion

2014-11-11 13:14:32| Real Estate - Topix.net

The plans to expand the Upper East Side's famous Frick Collection have proven to be predictably unpopular since they were announced in June , with preservationist stalwarts like the Historic Districts Council, Landmark West, and the newly formed Unite to Save the Frick leading the charge, and archicritics like Justin Davidson and Michael Kimmelman piling on. And while there have been issues raised with the design of the addition and how it would integrate with the existing mansion, a hefty portion of the criticism so far has focused on the aspect of the plan that would remove a garden desinged by landscape architect Russell Page in the '70s.

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Cablevision Battles More Sub Drops

2014-11-08 11:56:58| IT Services - Topix.net

Still resisting the urge to engage in price wars with Verizon, Cablevision Systems suffered some of its worst subscriber losses ever over the summer months but managed to boost its revenues and earnings nonetheless. Cablevision Systems Corp. reported consolidated net revenues of $1.63 billion in the third quarter, up 3.7% on a year-over-year basis and slightly higher than the Wall Street consensus forecast.

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Texas city bans fracking in its birthplace, court battles loom

2014-11-05 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Voters approved a ban on hydraulic fracturing in the north Texas town of Denton on Tuesday, making it the first city in the Lone Star State to outlaw the oil and gas extraction technique behind the U.S. energy boom. The vote in the city of 123,000 was highly symbolic because hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is widely used in Texas, the top crude producer in the United States. Green groups said the result served as a wake-up call to the industry, but several similar measures failed...

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