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Dear readers, thank you for your readership over the last five years — and for your support, story tips, photos, reader comments and more, and...
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Editorial: Just say No to COYHO
The City of Yes. … eh, yeah, sure, it sounds positive. But you can’t judge a sweeping, citywide development program just on a catchy name....
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‘It had to go now’: East Village pizzeria owner sheds his shed
BY CHRIS RYAN | Workers recently dismantled Eleven B pizza restaurant’s outdoor dining setup in the East Village. Owner Vincent Sgarlato got a bit of...
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Elizabeth Street Garden’s last stand: Little Italy green dream faces City Hall’s wrecking ball
BY SUSAN SILVER | On the eve of its possible execution, the legendary Elizabeth Street Garden was dotted with afternoon visitors soaking up its perennial...
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Biking’s his life — but Bowery rider says e-bikes are making life hell
BY OTTO FRITTON | As electric bikes have boomed in New York City, enforcement of traffic regulations against scofflaw riders has failed to keep pace....
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Posts tagged as “Sylvia Li”

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…

Planners pitch Soho/Noho rezoning but mute (literally) community concerns

The latest map of the proposed Soho/Noho rezoning shows in yellow the areas where the city would seek to "maximize" development. The yellow zone at the lower left has been shaved down a bit since an earlier version of the map, leading locals to surmise that Councilmember Corey Johnson has cooled on the initiative. (Dept. of City Planning)

Planners pitch Soho/Noho rezoning but mute (literally) community concerns

October 28, 2020

BY THE VILLAGE SUN | There weren’t a lot of fireworks at Monday’s meeting about the city’s suddenly revived push to rezone and upzone Soho…