Rally For Galicia
Yesterday, local organizers, politicians, as well as community members rallied to save Galicia restaurant on Broadway nigh 172nd Street inwards Washington Heights. After xxx years inwards business, they're beingness denied a lease renewal yesteryear the Edelsteins of Edel Family Management, owners of several buildings inwards the area.
As always, the eating theater was amount of faithful customers, dining on delicious home-style meals.
Hand-lettered signs inwards the windows read "Save Galicia" as well as "Make the Small Business Job[s] Survival Act Law!!"
H5N1 large crowd of New Yorkers gathered on the sidewalk. Unlike at last week's rally for Coogan's bar as well as restaurant a few blocks south, the phalanx of major word cameras was non present. (NBC4 got around shots.) I saw no reporters from major papers. (Patch was there.) Congressman Adriano Espaillat, Public Advocate Letitia James, as well as City Comptroller Scott Stringer did non appear.
But dozens of others did--and they were passionate almost pocket-size businesses inwards Washington Heights.
Lena Melendez
Rally organizer Lena Melendez spoke of the "favorite as well as authentic" restaurant, a survivor from the hard days of the 1980s. She introduced Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, who promised to "Do what nosotros tin to pressure level the Edelstein menage unit of measurement to come upwardly to the table" as well as negotiate a fair lease renewal. "We await our pocket-size businesses to live treated fairly," Brewer said. "Let's continue the pressure level going."
David Eisenbach, sometime candidate for Public Advocate, made a force for the Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA). "We can't continue counting on politicians to salvage the day," he said. "This can't live done on a illustration yesteryear illustration basis." We request legislation, he argued, "to degree the playing field." He called for a amount populace hearing as well as a City Council vote on the SBJSA. "Let commonwealth happen!"
David Eisenbach
Peter Walsh, co-owner of Coogan's, began, "As a pocket-size fry of Irish Gaelic immigrants, I was saved yesteryear novel immigrants--the Dominicans of Dominican Heights!" His bar has been sustained yesteryear Latinx locals--and was of late saved from a massive rent hike. He recalled the days of high crime, when Galicia opened as well as survived. And he spoke of gentrification's ability to displace. "Now that the neighborhood has expire attractive to everyone else, who produce they desire to boot out? The pathfinders. The Dominican immigrants who built this neighborhood."
Someone from the crowd shouted, "We are what's correct amongst America!"
Peter Walsh
For good over an hour, several community members got upwardly to speak, inwards English linguistic communication as well as inwards Spanish. City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez ended his speech communication amongst a chant of "Si, se puede!" Yes, nosotros can.
Ydanis Rodriguez
How tin you lot help? Write to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson as well as say him to convey the SBJSA to a vote. Write to your City Council members as well as say them to operate yesteryear the SBJSA. You tin find their contact information here -- as well as sample emails here as well as here.
It tin live done.
As always, the eating theater was amount of faithful customers, dining on delicious home-style meals.
Hand-lettered signs inwards the windows read "Save Galicia" as well as "Make the Small Business Job[s] Survival Act Law!!"
H5N1 large crowd of New Yorkers gathered on the sidewalk. Unlike at last week's rally for Coogan's bar as well as restaurant a few blocks south, the phalanx of major word cameras was non present. (NBC4 got around shots.) I saw no reporters from major papers. (Patch was there.) Congressman Adriano Espaillat, Public Advocate Letitia James, as well as City Comptroller Scott Stringer did non appear.
But dozens of others did--and they were passionate almost pocket-size businesses inwards Washington Heights.
Lena Melendez
Rally organizer Lena Melendez spoke of the "favorite as well as authentic" restaurant, a survivor from the hard days of the 1980s. She introduced Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, who promised to "Do what nosotros tin to pressure level the Edelstein menage unit of measurement to come upwardly to the table" as well as negotiate a fair lease renewal. "We await our pocket-size businesses to live treated fairly," Brewer said. "Let's continue the pressure level going."
David Eisenbach, sometime candidate for Public Advocate, made a force for the Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA). "We can't continue counting on politicians to salvage the day," he said. "This can't live done on a illustration yesteryear illustration basis." We request legislation, he argued, "to degree the playing field." He called for a amount populace hearing as well as a City Council vote on the SBJSA. "Let commonwealth happen!"
David Eisenbach
Peter Walsh, co-owner of Coogan's, began, "As a pocket-size fry of Irish Gaelic immigrants, I was saved yesteryear novel immigrants--the Dominicans of Dominican Heights!" His bar has been sustained yesteryear Latinx locals--and was of late saved from a massive rent hike. He recalled the days of high crime, when Galicia opened as well as survived. And he spoke of gentrification's ability to displace. "Now that the neighborhood has expire attractive to everyone else, who produce they desire to boot out? The pathfinders. The Dominican immigrants who built this neighborhood."
Someone from the crowd shouted, "We are what's correct amongst America!"
Peter Walsh
For good over an hour, several community members got upwardly to speak, inwards English linguistic communication as well as inwards Spanish. City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez ended his speech communication amongst a chant of "Si, se puede!" Yes, nosotros can.
Ydanis Rodriguez
How tin you lot help? Write to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson as well as say him to convey the SBJSA to a vote. Write to your City Council members as well as say them to operate yesteryear the SBJSA. You tin find their contact information here -- as well as sample emails here as well as here.
It tin live done.
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