Mr. Bill Borock

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  www.chelseanow.com/cn_119/meetinginthemiddle.html - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 4/12/2009  

  Bill Borock, president of the Council of Chelsea Block Associations, has attended several meetings with Cafeteria. "When we would have meetings, people would ask to make changes," he said. "They'd get made, but unfortunately things would go back to how they were."
  
  Borock praised the restaurant for offering soundproof windows to some residents as "one example of Cafeteria trying to help. But residents get tired of coming back every three or four months with the same complaints year after year."
  
  He said he realized that the restaurant was likely here to stay, as it recently extended its lease for another 10 years and initiated plans to expand into the storefront next door.
  
  "Cafeteria is a symbol of the kinds of things that can go wrong with having a certain kind of thing in the neighborhood," he cautioned vaguely.
  
  For Borock, a major concern with Cafeteria and several other Chelsea restaurants is the loss of sidewalk space due to sidewalk cafés. Umbrellas protrude over the café tables and into the sidewalk, forcing taller people like Borock to walk on the curb or duck. During the holiday season, he added, a Christmas tree dealer parked its operation right alongside the café, leaving very little space for residents to pass by.

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  Letters to the editor - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/7/2006    Last Visited: 6/10/2006  

  Bill BorockBorock is president, Council of Chelsea Block Associations

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  Letters to the editor - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/14/2006    Last Visited: 6/16/2006  

  Re "Seminary's pushing envelope" (letter, by Bill Borock, June 7):
  
  While extending my respect and good wishes to all the neighbors of the General Theological Seminary who participate in the Council of Chelsea Block Associations, I must point out that the council's president, Bill Borock, perpetuates at least two serious misunderstandings in his recent letter to The Villager.
  
  It is factually untrue to state, as Mr. Borock does, that our proposal to build higher than the 75-foot limit must be, in and of itself, a violation of the Chelsea Historic District.
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  Contrary to Mr. Borock's assertion, this is the choice we face.

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  Rowena Doyel, 84, Chelsea advocate, block leader - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/10/2006    Last Visited: 5/12/2006  

  Bill Borock, current president of the Council of Chelsea Block Associations, said her devotion to the council was unwavering.
  
  A registered nurse, she worked at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital's Neurological Institute, at the Rusk Institute and then as head nurse of Bellevue Hospital's Men's Rehabilitation Ward from 1969 until her retirement in 1972
  
  Known as a feisty civic activist, she was an outspoken supporter of the Westway project, which was abandoned in 1985.She was a longtime member of the Friends of Cast Iron, the Municipal Arts Society and the Academy of Science.
  
  Born Rowena Isabelle Diggs in Winchester, Ind., she was named after the heroine of Walter Scott's novel "Ivanhoe."She went to Boston to study nursing at Peter Bebt Brigham Hospital, graduating in 1946.

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  Seminary - Home Church - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/29/2004    Last Visited: 1/26/2006  

  Among the speakers were Bill Borock, president of the Council of Chelsea Block Associations; Robert Martin, a member of the Chelsea Coalition on Housing; Mary Swartz, president of the West 400 Block Association; Dorothea McElduff, who was raised and lives in a house across 21st St. from the seminary; Hilda Regier, former president of the community board and of the Council of Chelsea Block Associations and author of the Chelsea entry in the Encyclopedia of New York City; Lynn Ramsey, a founder of Chelsea Community Church that meets in the landmarked St. Peter's Episcopal Church on W. 20th St.; and Stephen Shore, an attorney and community activist who also lives on 21st St. across from the seminary.

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  Seminary forging ahead with tower despite opposition - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/20/2006    Last Visited: 1/20/2006  

  Among the speakers were Bill Borock, president of the Council of Chelsea Block Associations; Robert Martin, a member of the Chelsea Coalition on Housing; Mary Swartz, president of the West 400 Block Association; Dorothea McElduff, who was raised and lives in a house across 21st St. from the seminary; Hilda Regier, former president of the community board and of the Council of Chelsea Block Associations and author of the Chelsea entry in the Encyclopedia of New York City; Lynn Ramsey, a founder of Chelsea Community Church that meets in the landmarked St. Peter's Episcopal Church on W. 20th St.; and Stephen Shore, an attorney and community activist who also lives on 21st St. across from the seminary.

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  With noiseless staff and plates, new arts club wins... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/4/2006    Last Visited: 8/4/2006  

  However, Linn and Ruggi would not agree to a request by Bill Borock, president of the Council of Chelsea Block Associations, to build an enclosure for backyard diners.

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