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Yo(gurt)! Rats fight back as dining shed is demolished on 8th Street
BY MARC ADLER | On Sunday, around 10:30 a.m., I was walking down Eighth Street by the intersection of Sixth Avenue, and I noticed some...
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Middle Collegiate Church, preservationists on different sides on saving damaged facade
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 22, 11:30 a.m.: To quote from Ecclesiastes (and The Byrds), there is "a time to tear down, and a...
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Dorothy Day ferry sets sail, honoring legacy of social justice that activist left in her wake
BY RACHEL deARAGON | On Nov. 4, a new Staten Island ferryboat, The Dorothy Day, was commissioned. Our city has honored a woman who dedicated...
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City orders demolition of landmarked 14 Gay St.; Unclear if 16 Gay St. can be saved
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 13, 12:30 p.m.: In a case of neglect followed by a renovation-and-repair project gone horribly awry, the city has...
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Activists vs. activists in fight to reclaim East Village’s old P.S. 64 as community center
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Nov. 1, 5 p.m.: For more than 20 years, East Village activists have battled a developer’s designs on the old...
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Posts tagged as “land use”

City Planning to give ‘Zoning 101’ presentation at C.B. 3

City Planning to give ‘Zoning 101’ presentation at C.B. 3

October 18, 2022

Want to follow in the footsteps of Doris Diether, the legendary Village activist, and become the next zoning maven? Or do you already know something…

Doris Diether, legendary Greenwich Village activist, dies at age 92

A favorite photo of Doris Diether, in mid-laugh, by David Mulkins of Bowery Alliance of Neighbors a.k.a. BAN. (Photo by David Mulkins)

Doris Diether, legendary Greenwich Village activist, dies at age 92

September 17, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Fri., Sept. 17, 11:30 p.m.: Doris Diether, the iconic Community Board 2 member who was an ally of Jane Jacobs,…

EXCLUSIVE: Allie Ryan running for Council District 2 as an independent

Allie Ryan in Tompkins Square Park with her two daughters. (Photo by Chris Ryan)

EXCLUSIVE: Allie Ryan running for Council District 2 as an independent

March 24, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated March 26, 1 a.m.: Another candidate is tossing her hat in the ring for City Council District 2. She’s not…

Scrap ill-conceived long-term planning scheme

Powerful planning czar Robert Moses with a model of his hoped-for Battery Bridge project in the 1930s. It took an order from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to block the embattled bridge project and get the lower-impact Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel built instead. (C.M. Stieglitz, World Telegram / Library of Congress)

Scrap ill-conceived long-term planning scheme

March 1, 2021

BY SEAN SWEENEY | The City Council has introduced legislation to amend the City Charter to create an expensive, “comprehensive,” long-term land-use plan, supervised by…