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Mayor’s op-ed: Permanent outdoor dining is equitable, sustainable and beloved
BY ERIC ADAMS | Summer weather is here, and there is no better time to be on the streets of New York — especially at...
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Kill Bill (31-B), dining shed foes cry as Council poised to make pandemic gutter structures permanent
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Get outdoor dining out of the gutter already! That's what members of CUEUP (Coalition United for Equitable Urban Policy), who...
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‘Always there when you needed him’: Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett’s friendship, charm and irreverence recalled at packed memorial
BY SHARON WOOLUMS | The service for Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett at Greenwich Village Funeral Home on May 9 drew an overflow crowd, with some mourners stranded...
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Ralph Lee, Greenwich Village Halloween Parade founder, theater artist, dies at 87
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Ralph Lee, the legendary father of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, died Fri., May 12, at Westbeth Artists Housing. He was...
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Foxface sandwiches owner wins Theatre 80 St. Mark’s with $8.8 million bid; Otherwise, not many bites at auction
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The winning bidder for Theatre 80 St. Mark's used to sell some mean muffulettas there. Ori Kushnir and his life partner...
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Posts tagged as “development”

Opinion: REBNY’s Penn Station plan is kaput — let’s keep up the momentum

A plan to redevelop the area around Penn Station has run out of steam.

Opinion: REBNY’s Penn Station plan is kaput — let’s keep up the momentum

March 8, 2023

BY BENNETT KREMEN | I can only rejoice that those insane Vornado/REBNY Towers of Babel won’t be built now around Penn Station. I live just…

Damaged historic 5th Ave. building to be shored up; Stop-work order on luxe sliver tower still in effect

Along with 14 residential apartments, several storefronts, including Le Pain Quotidien, are also subject to the emergency vacate order. (Photo by Marguerite Martin)

Damaged historic 5th Ave. building to be shored up; Stop-work order on luxe sliver tower still in effect

February 20, 2023

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Following Saturday’s latest construction-caused crisis in Greenwich Village — this time at Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue — word is that…

News is not super-good on Morton Williams supermarket and N.Y.U.

N.Y.U. previously committed to providing 29,000 square feet of retail space — about half of which would have been for a supermarket for the community — in its new 181 Mercer St. project. But the requirement was quietly dropped from the construction permit issued by the Department of Buildings.

News is not super-good on Morton Williams supermarket and N.Y.U.

May 25, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated May 25, 10 p.m.: There are no imminent changes regarding the future of the Morton Williams supermarket on Bleecker Street.…

LES/Chinatown faces most threats to affordable housing in Downtown Manhattan: Report

The 72-story, 800-foot-tall One Manhattan Square condo tower brought 815 new high-end apartments to the Lower East Side's Two Bridges area when it was completed in 2019 just north of the Manhattan Bridge.

LES/Chinatown faces most threats to affordable housing in Downtown Manhattan: Report

May 25, 2022

BY GRACE SYMES | The Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development’s 2022 Affordable Housing Risk Report, released last week, found that in Downtown Manhattan median…

Opinion: How many concrete canyons does Greenwich Village need?

The southern half of the D.E.P.-owned lot at Hudson and Clarkson Streets cannot be built on because access must be maintained to the water-tunnel shaft below. (Google Street View)

Opinion: How many concrete canyons does Greenwich Village need?

March 28, 2022

BY LYNN PACIFICO | Venerating nature as the basis of life, the ancients set aside areas around natural features, such as caves, waterfalls, springs and…

Knickerbocker Village tenants fight affordable complex’s planned sale to L&M Development

As an Article IV development, Knickerbocker Village must remain permanently affordable.

Knickerbocker Village tenants fight affordable complex’s planned sale to L&M Development

March 23, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated March 23, 5:15 p.m.: A group of residents of Knickerbocker Village in the Two Bridges area of the Lower East…

‘A major victory’: Legislature nixes Hochul’s hope to scrap building size cap

Supertall towers fill the sky south of Central Park. (Photo by The Village Sun)

‘A major victory’: Legislature nixes Hochul’s hope to scrap building size cap

March 17, 2022

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Developers’ and YIMBYs’ sky-high hopes for unlimited F.A.R. were dealt a blow after the Assembly and state Senate rejected the…

‘Sky’s the limit’ if Hochul bill to scrap F.A.R. cap is O.K.’d

New supertall towers rise above W. 57th Street a.k.a. "Billionaires' Row." (Photo by The Village Sun)

‘Sky’s the limit’ if Hochul bill to scrap F.A.R. cap is O.K.’d

March 7, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A month ago, Village Preservation began raising the alarm that Governor Hochul’s proposed 2023 budget included a huge gift to developers…

Michele Herman’s new novel, ‘Save the Village,’ reflects on power of community amid a changing world

Michele Heman. (Courtesy the author)

Michele Herman’s new novel, ‘Save the Village,’ reflects on power of community amid a changing world

February 21, 2022

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | “Save the Village,” Michele Herman’s new fictional work about life in Greenwich Village, is a literary love letter to her…

Constitutional challenge filed against Soho/Noho rezoning

This vulnerable, low-scale corner at Grand and Lafayette Streets is in the Chinatown section of the Soho/Noho rezoning, though the plan "misleadingly" calls it "Soho East," a new lawsuit says. (Photo by Harry Pincus)

Constitutional challenge filed against Soho/Noho rezoning

February 11, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A lawsuit seeking to “annul and vacate” the Soho/Noho/Chinatown rezoning charges that the scheme would cause “mass displacement” of thousands of…