Soho/Noho rezoning incentivizes demolition and displacement: And landlords know it
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Housing activists and preservationists fear the Department of City Planning’s proposed Soho/Noho/Chinatown rezoning would make rent-regulated tenants vulnerable to one of...
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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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Posts tagged as “George Segal”

‘Gay Liberation’ conservation, another monumental moment

Conservator John Saunders applied a special white lacquer-and-wax coating to George Segal's bronze sculpture in Christopher Park. The coating is then heat-sealed onto the monument with a blowtorch. (Courtesy NYC Parks Department)

‘Gay Liberation’ conservation, another monumental moment

July 5, 2021

Monuments need TLC, too. A few days before Gay Pride Weekend, the Parks Department did its annual care and preservation of George Segal’s “Gay Liberation…

David Dinkins and some monumental moments

David Dinkins at the Frederick Douglass Memorial two years ago. (Photo by Jonathan Kuhn)

David Dinkins and some monumental moments

November 25, 2020

Longtime West Villager Jonathan Kuhn shared these photos and remembrances of former Mayor David Dinkins with The Village Sun. Kuhn is the director of Art…

‘Gay Liberation’ statues get a monumental sprucing up

Rebecca Rosen applies special pigmented lacquer to the "Gay Liberation" monument. (Photo by NYC Parks Department)

‘Gay Liberation’ statues get a monumental sprucing up

June 18, 2020

In celebration of Pride Month, the New York City Parks Department gave some loving care to the “Gay Liberation” sculpture in Christopher Park in the…