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Mike Murphy Ditches Carion For Manhattan Development Corporation

Adolfo Carrion’s communications director, Mike Murphy, is leaving for a job with the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

While it’s a loss for Carrion, it’s something of a win that Murphy wasn’t hired by another city comptroller candidate.

That’s more or less what happened with John Collins, who was hired by Anthony Weiner, a likely mayoral candidate.

Collins had recently worked for two possible mayoral candidates before going to Weiner: Christine Quinn and Betsy Gotbaum (who had been considered a longshot candidate until this interview put that notion to rest).

Here’s the email Murphy sent to friends:

Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be leaving The Borough
  President’s Office at the end of the week. It was a great year and a
  half!!!

I have accepted a job as the new Press Secretary for the Lower
  Manhattan Development Corporation. I look forward to working with
  everyone in my new capacity. I will start at LMDC on next Tuesday. I
  can be reached at this email ### (once I get my new
  email I will send it around) and on my cell 646-###-####. Thanks talk
  to you soon and remember only 48 more days to Opening Day of MLB….GO
  RED SOX!!!!

SOURCE: Observer.com

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Brandy Cochrane, 27, and others have been doing cleanups at University Woods Park since October 2006.

Battle Over University Woods For Condos

Abused and just about abandoned, a little Bronx park tucked away above the Harlem River is finding itself caught in a tug of war.

Once a dumping ground for carcasses of animals sacrificed in Santeria rituals, the community board wants to use hilly 3.3-acre University Woods Park for an affordable condo complex.

But some local activists have been working to clean up and save the park.

Two years ago, Community Board 5 approached developer Andrew Lasala about swapping the park for his property on the waterfront just north of it, which would be ideal for a greenway, said District Manager Xavier Rodriguez.

The state was interested in buying Lasala’s waterfront property, Rodriguez said, and there was interest in swapping it for the University Woods acres, which have been a haven for drug addicts and homeless people and last year was ranked as the worst park in the city by an advocacy group.

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