From the East Village Community Coalition, http://evccnyc.org OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS A COMMUNITY CENTER !“Restoring PS 64/CHARAS Our Neighborhood” A place for children to learn and play after school, a place to teach literacy, a place for people to learn about jobs, a place for musicians to compose and practice, a place for poets to create […]
JOIN US FOR A DEMONSTRATION!!! THURSDAY, June 7, 6:30 PM 9th Street & Avenue B (Armando Perez Place) The First Department Appellate ruled on May 29th, 2007 that a private developer can construct a “dormitory” without a lease from a university – and be given a 90% size bonus! This decision leads to the conclusion […]
From the Village Voice Court Backs East Village ‘Dorm for Hire’posted: 7:18 AM, June 4, 2007 by Sarah Ferguson So far Singer has stripped off all the dormer windows on the 10th Street side of P.S. 64. He hopes to demolish a lot more. It looks as if developer Gregg Singer’s proposed 19-story megadorm off […]
Sunday, June 3The East Village: Culture and Counter Culture: A Walking Tour with Joyce Gold1:00 p.m.$12 GVSHP members/seniors; $15 general publicReservations recommended: 212-475-9585 x 34 or [email protected] From Stuyvesant’s bouwerie to the Tompkins Square riot—an area rich in ethnic diversity.Joyce Gold, author of From Trout Stream to Bohemia: A Walking Guide to Greenwich Village History, […]
From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, www.gvshp.org NYU MEGA-DORM AIR RIGHTS HEARING TUESDAY, APRIL 17 at 11 am: Reminder: the hearing before the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) challenging the air rights “transfer” from the Post Office to the East 12th Street NYU Mega-Dorm will be this coming Tuesday, April 17, at […]
From the East Village Community Coalitionhttp://evccnyc.org Monday 6:30pm April 16 at University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street (between Rivington & Delancey).The 197 Zoning Task Force of Community Board 3 will meet Monday. Please attend and encourage the the task force to continue working with Department of City Planning in protecting our neighborhood. Ask them to endorse […]
From The Villager St. Brigid’s protection is extendedBy Albert Amateau St. Brigid’s Church received another reprieve last week from the wrecker’s ball when the Appellate Division extended a temporary restraining order barring the Catholic Archdiocese of New York from demolishing the 1849 church building. The church on Avenue B across from Tompkins Square Park, though […]
“In the Footsteps of Jane Jacobs”Thursday, March 16:30pmParish Hall, St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery,131 East 10th Street at Second AvenueRSVP: 212 614-9107, [email protected] Is the golden age of activism gone? What does it take to motivate the masses in 21st-century New York? Some of New York City’s most ambitious grassroots organizers discuss their currents efforts in […]
Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment Walking Tourhttp://www.bcue.org/?go=cmn.49 Saturday March 311:00am-1:00pm Old Theatres of the East Village with theatre historian Cezar Del Valle Once home to the rich and powerful, the northern area of the Lower East Side changed as waves of immigrants arrived during the 19th century and turned the area into a hotbed […]
