BY CAPTAIN JONATHAN BOULWARE | We read the Seaport Coalition’s recent talking point in The Village Sun (“The real story: The Seaport Historic District, South…
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BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated March 20, 7 a.m.: Activists slammed Corey Johnson’s long-range planning bill as a “Trojan horse” for developers at a rally…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated March 10, 10:15 p.m.: Go down, Moses — as in, go away! Charging that New York doesn’t need a 21st-century…
BY THE SEAPORT COALITION | The setup The South Street Seaport Museum, its collections and historic ships, has had to be rescued from financial ruin…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | When they go high, Community Board 2 stays low. At its full-board meeting last Thursday, C.B. 2 voted overwhelmingly to disapprove…
BY LYNN ELLSWORTH | In 1961, Jane Jacobs, author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” called city planning “a pseudo-science” that had…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Feb. 19, 1:10 p.m.: Opponents of the Two Bridges megatowers plan suffered a setback Tuesday when the Appellate Court…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Updated Feb. 2, 8:10 p.m.: A developer is finding that its plan for a new building next to the historic…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Lower East Side and Chinatown activists blasted local politicians Tuesday for unfairly tarring the group East River Park ACTION as racist over…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Envision this, de Blasio. The city’s current, much-maligned rezoning plan for Soho and Noho emerged — albeit abruptly and surprisingly…