Toxic shock: Seaport tower foes fear mercury-site cleanup would endanger schoolkids
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Temperatures are boiling in the South Street Seaport area as a developer hopes to start cleanup of a toxic former thermometer-factory...
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Kips Bay woman, 28, reported missing
Police are seeking the public's help in locating a Kips Bay woman who was reported missing on Sat., Sept. 4. According to cops, Brittany Hobart,...
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Brewer balks at Soho/Noho rezoning, locals lambaste plan at six-hour session
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | They just kept on coming, one after the other...for six hours. Longtime Soho and Noho artist residents testified in droves against...
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Chin, Rivera silent after demanding Soho/Noho rezoning actually create affordable housing
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A month ago, they called on the Department of City Planning to "return to the table now" and improve the Soho/Noho...
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Rocco’s, famed Bleecker Street pastry shop, dishing out vaccine defiance
BY ART GATTI | The Bleecker Street Italian restaurant, Pesce Pasta, tells us, “Yes, we are checking vaccination status for those dining indoors," while across...
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Posts tagged as “gentrification”

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

Stefanie Batten Bland, a second-generation Soho artist, spoke out strongly against the mayor's Soho/Noho rezoning plan at the July 26 C.B. 2 meeting.

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

July 27, 2021

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…

Gentrification made morally complex

Gentrification made morally complex

July 1, 2021

BY REV. DONNA SCHAPER | James Baldwin, one of many famous visitors to Greenwich Village, is said to have said in 1967: “We need to…

Activists fire back at ‘East Village politicians’ over poster flap

Wing Lam, executive director of Chinese Staff and Workers' Association, said the Chinzilla poster is accurate. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Activists fire back at ‘East Village politicians’ over poster flap

December 9, 2020

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…

A Soho artist’s plaint: Up against the city’s upzoning and a greedy co-op board

The writer, Harry Pincus, chose this illustration of his about high-rise development, "Empire State," to run with this column. Pincus sees the city's push to upzone Soho as part of a trend that has been going on for years, as wealthy nonartists — who are not even legally supposed to be living in the district — seek to force out longtime certified artists. (Courtesy the artist)

A Soho artist’s plaint: Up against the city’s upzoning and a greedy co-op board

October 18, 2020

BY HARRY PINCUS | As a certified artist, who bought a space in an old harpsichord factory in 1975, I am concerned about the recent…

We’ll displace YOU, rezoning foes cry outside Johnson’s home

We’ll displace YOU, rezoning foes cry outside Johnson’s home

September 10, 2020

BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL | Labor Day was no holiday for housing activists who turned out in large numbers to protest the displacement of communities of…