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Adams vetoes Chin’s bill hiking fines for Soho/Noho nonartist JLWQA residents, saying it needs work
Mayor Eric Adams announced he has vetoed a bill that would have hit nonartist residents in JLWQA lofts with steep penalties. (Photo by Ed Reed / Mayor's Office of Photography)

Adams vetoes Chin’s bill hiking fines for Soho/Noho nonartist JLWQA residents, saying it needs work

January 14, 2022

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Jan. 16, 3:30 p.m.: Mayor Eric Adams in a statement late Friday afternoon reitearated his support for the Soho/Noho upzoning.…

Soho, Noho residents urge Adams to veto Chin’s ‘punitive’ bill against nonartist residents
Soho and Noho residents are urging Mayor Adams to veto a contentious last-minute bill snuck in by Councilmember Margaret Chin, above, just weeks before she was term-limited out of office. In a highly unusual move, there was no public discussion of the bill before it was approved by the full City Council.

Soho, Noho residents urge Adams to veto Chin’s ‘punitive’ bill against nonartist residents

January 11, 2022

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | You’ve got to pick your battles. Soho and Noho residents believe that Mayor Eric Adams will not veto the contentious…

Why??? C.B. 2 confused, frustrated by Chin’s exiting push to boost fines for Soho/Noho nonartists
Councilmember Margaret Chin moderated parts of the City Planning Commission's hearing on the Soho/Noho rezoning last month, above. However, last week, her deputy chief of staff appeared before C.B. 2 to present Chin's bill to increase fines for nonartists living in J.L.Q.W.A. units in Soho and Noho.

Why??? C.B. 2 confused, frustrated by Chin’s exiting push to boost fines for Soho/Noho nonartists

December 7, 2021

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Community members and local politicians alike have strong objections to lame-duck Councilmember Margaret Chin’s “11th-hour” bill to increase penalties on nonartist…

Opposition to contentious Soho/Noho rezoning continues unabated
Pete Davies, a member of the Broadway Residents Coalition, testified against the Soho/Noho rezoning at the Department of City Planning's hearing in September. At the time, he said he feared the plan would lead to massive development on his building's rooftop, calling it "a dark future." (Photo by The Village Sun)

Opposition to contentious Soho/Noho rezoning continues unabated

November 8, 2021

BY DASHIELL ALLEN | Pete Davies has lived in his Soho loft on Broadway since June of 1980. In 2005, eight units in his building…

Planners pitch Soho/Noho rezoning but mute (literally) community concerns
The latest map of the proposed Soho/Noho rezoning shows in yellow the areas where the city would seek to "maximize" development. The yellow zone at the lower left has been shaved down a bit since an earlier version of the map, leading locals to surmise that Councilmember Corey Johnson has cooled on the initiative. (Dept. of City Planning)

Planners pitch Soho/Noho rezoning but mute (literally) community concerns

October 28, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | There weren’t a lot of fireworks at Monday’s meeting about the city’s suddenly revived push to rezone and upzone Soho…

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…

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