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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…

East River Park activists lock themselves to tree in City Hall Park, demand response from Speaker Johnson
JK Canepa, right, and jmac are not going anywhere until they hear from Speaker Corey Johnson. (Photo by The Village Sun)

East River Park activists lock themselves to tree in City Hall Park, demand response from Speaker Johnson

September 28, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Taking a page from old-school East Village activism, Tuesday morning two women locked themselves to a tree in City Hall Park.…

Groups from across city to protest Johnson’s long-range planning bill
Critics warn that a long-range planning bill being fast-tracked by Council Speaker Corey Johnson, left, would create an unaccountable "planning czar," like Robert Moses, seen in the 1930s with a model of his hoped-for Brooklyn Battery Bridge project, right. Johnson, though, says the bill would empower communities. (Courtesy Citywide People's Land Use Alliance)

Groups from across city to protest Johnson’s long-range planning bill

March 10, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated March 10, 10:15 p.m.: Go down, Moses — as in, go away! Charging that New York doesn’t need a 21st-century…

S.O.S. group in distress over Open Restaurants; Lawsuit planned
An Open Restaurants cabana on Avenue B. With the cold weather, many of the structures have become increasingly enclosed, defeating their original purpose of helping stop the spread of COVID by being in the open air. (Photo by The Village Sun)

S.O.S. group in distress over Open Restaurants; Lawsuit planned

December 4, 2020

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Fri., Dec. 4, 4 p.m.: Bars and restaurants hail the city’s Open Restaurants program as a lifeline amid the pandemic.…

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