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Save Beth Israel coalition holds ‘victory march’ after recent wins
BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | Chanting “Save Our Community Hospital!” activists with the Campaign to Save Beth Israel and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary braved...
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Police arrest suspect in brutal sucker-punch of young woman in Greenwich Village
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A 6th Precinct detective recently arrested a man accused of randomly punching a young woman in Greenwich Village — so hard...
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‘Blank ballot’ protest scores 15% in NYC in Dem presidential primary
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Showing the ongoing divide among Democrats over the Israel-Gaza conflict, 15 percent of the party's New York City voters submitted...
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Jose Pepe Flores, Loisaida raconteur and record collector, realizes his dream
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | For a number of years, Jose Pepe Flores, ethnomusicologist and record collector extraordinaire, dreamed about creating a Puerto Rican cultural center...
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Erik Bottcher unveils ‘fang-tastic’ rat-control plan
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | One of Erik Bottcher's top issues is sanitation, so perhaps it's not so surprising that he is proposing a groundbreaking...
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Landmarks Preservation Commission in thrall to Big Real Estate, panel says

No. 12 Fifth Ave. is braced as the future of the adjacent 10 Fifth Ave. (not pictured) remains unclear. In February, foundation drilling for a new building at 14-16 Fifth Ave. cracked and destabilized 10 Fifth Ave. The L.P.C. allowed a landmarked building at the site in the Greenwich Village Historic District to be demolished for the project. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Landmarks Preservation Commission in thrall to Big Real Estate, panel says

November 14, 2023

BY PHYLLIS ECKHAUS | “Time To Reform Our Landmarks Preservation Commission?” That was the question before an Oct. 18 panel at Grace Church High School…

Don’t give away the streets to landlords and restaurants

Imagine: The writer proposes that neighborhoods be allowed to plan their own streets. Above, an outdoor dining shed on First Ave. earlier this year painted by local artist Ian Knife. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Don’t give away the streets to landlords and restaurants

July 12, 2021

BY LYNN ELLSWORTH | I love sidewalk cafes. I especially like the nice ones that have comfy chairs and plantings that separate me from people…

What kind of planning do we want? Not another Robert Moses!

The writer warns that a proposed law for long-range planning would steer development to already overbuilt neighborhoods in the city's historic core — areas already aggressively coveted by Big Real Estate seeking maximum profits. The law would also be fundamentally antidemocratic, in her view.

What kind of planning do we want? Not another Robert Moses!

February 20, 2021

BY LYNN ELLSWORTH | In 1961, Jane Jacobs, author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” called city planning “a pseudo-science” that had…