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Shed foes call for end to roadway use, urge ‘equitable’ plan in ‘Community Blueprint for Outdoor Dining’
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | As the City Council works obscurely behind closed doors on a plan to make outdoor dining permanent, community residents have...
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String theory: No storefront, but Matt Umanov, famed guitar fixer, is still at it on Bleecker St.
BY ALEX EBRAHIMI | For want of a guitar shop, the guitar was lost. For want of a guitar, the song was lost. For want...
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Comings & Goings: Sushi, pies and egg sandwiches…plus lots new at Chelsea Market
BY CAROLINE BENVENISTE | This past month there were a number of Asian restaurant openings and anticipated openings (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai), but Korean corn...
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G shock: Rollout of jumbo Link5G towers is roiling the historic West Village
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Feb. 23, 4:20 p.m.: The city's determined rollout of 5G megatowers in the West Village and Soho has, to hear...
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BREAKING — literally: Foundation work on contentious 5th Ave. tower causes evacuation of nearby historic building
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Feb. 22, 10 p.m.: The Department of Buildings on Saturday ordered the emergency evacuation of a residential building a block...
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Posts tagged as “South Street Seaport Museum”

Seaport Coalition sues to block Hughes Corp. ‘zoning buster’ tower

A screen grab from a 3D animation shared by the Seaport Coalition illustrates how out-of-scale 250 Water St. would be in the context of the low-rise South Street Historic District.

Seaport Coalition sues to block Hughes Corp. ‘zoning buster’ tower

May 18, 2021

Updated May 18, 7 p.m.: The Seaport Coalition, a nonprofit aimed at preserving the Seaport Historic District and opposed to Howard Hughes Corporation’s planned 324-foot…

Seaport developer already reneging on ‘promise’ to save museum

A rendering of the revised design for 250 Water St., center, as viewed from the Brooklyn Bridge. (Howard Hughes Corp.)

Seaport developer already reneging on ‘promise’ to save museum

May 8, 2021

BY THE SEAPORT COALITION AND SAVE OUR SEAPORT | On Wed., May 5, we learned from Howard Hughes Corporation spokesperson James Yolles, “that the firm…

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…