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Rezoning needs landmarking, rec space, critics say
Andrew Berman, director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, testified at Tuesday’s hearing on the Hudson Square rezoning. Seated next to him are G.V.S.H.P. staffers, from left,...
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Chinatown merchants cheer Sandy fund relief checks
Photo by Sam Spokony Chinatown small business owners happily waved their Superstorm Sandy relief checks last Friday, after a ceremony at the Transfiguration Church, on Mott St. The effort was...
View ArticleBroadway will feel the crunch (on trash)
BY T. SCHOEN | “You have an insane garbage problem. It’s disgusting! There’s no other way to describe it,” said Larry Marcus, a representative of Direct Environmental Corp., at a meeting of the...
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Should have seen it coming
Photo by Jefferson Siegel Sylvia Mitchell, a Greenwich Village psychic accused of conning $128,000 out of a woman to rid her of her “bad spirits,” was arraigned at Manhattan Criminal Court on Wed.,...
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N.Y.U. project foes hail judge’s ruling about strips
The LaGuardia Corner Gardens — seen here in glorious full bloom in a photo from June 2004 — have been flourishing along a strip of city-owned land on LaGuardia Place at Bleecker St. since 1981. File...
View ArticleFighting against Council’s coddling big development
BY ANDREW BERMAN | The final days of the Bloomberg administration have been a mad dash by developers and large institutions to get approvals for huge projects that will change the face of our...
View ArticleFashion’s Night Outta here! Cans event for this year
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | After its New York version was marred by an ugly incident last year, Fashion’s Night Out is “going on hiatus.” On Wednesday it was announced that the international event started...
View ArticleC.B. 3 puts brakes on Fung Wah; Too young at Lolita Bar?
BY LESLEY SUSSMAN | The new year got a bit worse this week for the Chinatown-based Fung Wah Bus company when, on Tuesday, Community Board 3 voted to recommend denial of an application by the troubled...
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Stringer plants idea for wetlands along East River
Under the Blueway plan, an existing beach area under the Brooklyn Bridge would be enhanced for public access. BY T. SCHOEN | Borough President Scott Stringer recently gave his State of the Borough...
View ArticlePier 40 plan would generate millions for Hudson River Park
VILLAGER EXCLUSIVE: The Two Towers BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | A top real estate advisory firm has crunched the numbers for local youth sports leagues’ plan to build a pair of 22-story residential towers...
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The signs are looking good for embattled L.E.S. arts icon
BY CLAYTON PATTERSON |Taylor Mead is smiling. And what’s not to be happy about? His apartment at 163 Ludlow St. is bedbug-free. And the Department of Buildings on Jan. 17 slapped a stop-work order on...
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Champs pitch towers plan; Durst goes to bat for reuse
Members of the ASA College baseball team turned out in support of the Pier 40 Champions plan. The school’s lacrosse team also uses the West Houston St. pier. Photo by Tequila Minsky BY LINCOLN ANDERSON...
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iPhone bar thefts have sent Village crime rate soaring
Brendan Kirkpatrick, head bartender at The Village Tavern, poured a drink next to a patron’s phone left carelessly on the bar top. Photo by Paul Bufano BY PAUL BUFANO | After steadily decreasing...
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Taking homeless fight to N.Y.U.’s door, he camps out
At the start of John Penley’s campout protest outside Bobst Library last Friday were, from left, Barbara Ross, Frank Morales, Penley and L.E.S. Jewels. Photo by Jefferson Siegel BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL |...
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Down-and-out men got lots of air, but almost no furniture
The capacious building at 160 Bleecker St. was formerly a “reform house” for men called Mills House No. 1. BY T. SCHOEN | In 1879 the Tenement House Act was passed. The measure ensured that tenements...
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Mendez hits the big five oh and is going for three
Above: Rosie Mendez gets an endorsement and a kiss from Congressmember Nydia Velazquez; MIDDLE, Rosie with her older brother, Antonio, who is a doctor; BOTTOM, former Councilmember Margarita Lopez,...
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Quinn makes it official; Says she wants to be next mayor
Joined by supporters, Christine Quinn announced her campaign for mayor in Inwood on Sun., March 10. Her wife, Kim Catullo, is standing to the left of her. Photo courtesy Christine Quinn mayoral...
View ArticleHud. Sq. rezoning O.K.’d; S. Village landmark pledged
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON |The City Council in committee has voted to approve the Hudson Square residential rezoning plan, coupled with the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s agreement to vote on...
View ArticleGottfried: Housing at Pier 40 ‘should be off the table’
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | It’s looking increasingly like Pier 40 won’t become the Lower West Side’s new residential hot spot — at least not anytime soon — as the number of key local politicians opposing,...
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Why is funding the Hudson River Park so contentious?
A graphic on the screen at the start of the Feb. 28 Community Board 2 forum on Pier 40 and Hudson River Park made it clear that right now is a key moment for both the pier and park. Photo by Robert...
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