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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BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated May 19, 12:30 p.m.: The City Planning Commission on Tuesday announced the start of the public review for the Soho/Noho…
Updated May 18, 7 p.m.: The Seaport Coalition, a nonprofit aimed at preserving the Seaport Historic District and opposed to Howard Hughes Corporation’s planned 324-foot…
BY THE SEAPORT COALITION AND SAVE OUR SEAPORT | On Wed., May 5, we learned from Howard Hughes Corporation spokesperson James Yolles, “that the firm…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | The venerable and influential Municipal Art Society of New York has weighed in on Mayor de Blasio’s Soho/Noho rezoning plan, and…
After nine hours of testimony, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission sent the Howard Hughes Corporation’s proposal for a tower at 250 Water St. back for…
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…
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 | The Howard Hughes Corporation’s plan for two megatowers in the South Street Historic District is not exactly sailing smoothly through…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Hold your (historic district) horses! The Downtown Independent Democrats political club had planned to make endorsements last Monday evening after…