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Planning big blasts Soho/Noho rezoning foes for ‘abusive, disrespectful, racist words’ on eve of key hearing

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Despicable. That’s how opponents of the Soho/Noho rezoning are describing a full-frontal attack on them by a Department of City Planning…

Councilmembers past and future urge B.P. Brewer to reject Soho/Noho rezoning

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | “Do the right thing,” the expected incoming District 1 City Councilmember and two of his predecessors urged Gale Brewer, calling on…

My visit to Chuck Close’s studio; Photorealist master battled light-blocking luxury project

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Aug. 23, 3:00 p.m.: Chuck Close, the Downtown artist renowned for his gigantic Photorealist paintings, died on Thurs., Aug. 19,…

Chin, Rivera say Soho/Noho rezoning must ‘guarantee’ affordable housing; Foes say scrap flawed plan now

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Councilmembers Margaret Chin and Carlina Rivera are finally seemingly jumping on the bandwagon with opponents of the mayor’s Soho-Noho rezoning plan…

C.B. 2 rejects mayor’s Soho/Noho rezoning, calling it ‘falsely presented’ as expanding affordable housing

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | In a blistering verdict on Mayor de Blasio’s Soho/Noho upzoning plan, Community Board 2 on Monday night voted nearly unanimously to…

Outrage after City Planning rep slams alternative Soho/Noho zoning plan as phony, ‘magical thinking’

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated July 12, 1:00 p.m.: There may be a heat wave going on, but things got even hotter in Soho and…

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