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Outrage after City Planning rep slams alternative Soho/Noho zoning plan as phony, ‘magical thinking’
At a July 8 meeting on the Soho/Noho rezoning, a City Planning official cast a worried glance in the direction of a Downtown activist who had just shouted, "That's an insult!" after Sylvia Li, speaking on the mic, called the Community Alternative Zoning Plan "magical thinking" and, basically, a fraud.

Outrage after City Planning rep slams alternative Soho/Noho zoning plan as phony, ‘magical thinking’

July 11, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated July 12, 1:00 p.m.: There may be a heat wave going on, but things got even hotter in Soho and…

An (actually) real history of the South Street Seaport Museum
"Great Admiral," a 1948 watercolor painting by renowned maritime artist Gordon Grant, is among the paintings and drawings at the South Street Seaport Museum. (Seamen's Bank for Savings Collection)

An (actually) real history of the South Street Seaport Museum

March 23, 2021

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…

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