It’s Your Community. Come Plan It! UNITY 2007It’s Not a Done Deal An all day workshop to create a community driven development plan for Brooklyn’s Vanderbilt Yards April 28th, 200710am—4pmHanson Place United Methodist Church144 Saint Felix Street at Hanson PlaceBrooklyn, NYTrains 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, R, Q to Atlantic/Pacific Bring Your Own […]
From the Villager (of course) New designations beef up Meat Market protections By Lincoln Anderson Last Wednesday, State Parks Commissioner Carol Ash approved the listing of the entire Meatpacking District on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The district, known as the Gansevoort Market District, was nominated by the Greenwich Village Society for […]
From the Downtown ExpressCity stops to plant flowers in Peck Slip planBy Skye H. McFarlane Though two big regulatory hurdles still lie ahead, park advocates and preservationists appear to have reached an agreement on the redesign of Peck Slip. “We’re very restricted on this site, but…I think we’ve reached a good compromise,” said John Fratta, […]
From The Brooklyn Paper Credit where dueIt was nice to see former Borough President Howard Golden on Monday night at a Brooklyn Historical Society reception kicking off the new exhibition about the borough’s rise to greatness that began in the 1970s. Speaker after speaker celebrated Golden’s visionary role in the Brooklyn “renaissance,” ticking off a […]
From The Brooklyn Paper A ‘historic’ effortBy Dana Rubinstein Fort Greene and Clinton Hill activists are pulling out all the stops to protect the “character” of their rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. On top of a highly anticipated downzoning — now in its final stages of approval — the Fort Greene Association and the Society for Clinton […]
From the Queens Chronicle (a truthful albeit a little too fairhanded take on Tuesday’s hearing) Landmarking Opinions From Both Sunny Sidesby Jennifer Manley, Assistant Editor In three-minute increments, Sunnyside Gardens residents bent the ears of the city’s Landmarks Preservation commissioners for nearly five hours on Tuesday. “We are here today not to talk, but to […]
From the Queens Chronicle 04/19/2007Former Party Boss Vows To Purchase Landmark by Joseph Wendelken, Assistant Editor Although the landmarked Richmond Hill Republican Club building was auctioned last Friday, the former boss of Manhattan’s Republican organization has vowed to take advantage of an option that a Queens judge left open to him to annul the winning […]
WHEN: Saturday, April 21st, 3pmWHERE: 69-57 185 Street, Fresh MeadowsWHO: NYC Councilman Tony Avella, the Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association, Inc., and residents of 185th Street For details and photos, see http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2007/04/rally-in-fresh-meadows-this-saturday.html
From The Real Deal By Gabby Warshawer An architectural drawing shows the dorm rising next to the adjacent post office. Today the Board of Standards and Appeals heard a challenge filed against the Department of Building’s approval of an air rights transfer that will allow Hudson Companies and New York University to build the tallest […]
From Michele de la Uz, Fifth Avenue Committee, [email protected] Thank you to everyone who attended last Wednesday’s marathon hearing at the City Planning Commission to testify in support of FAC’s proposed 575 5th Avenue project and thank you to all who submitted testimony as well! More than 70 supporters were in attendance, including a large […]
