Mark your calendars and make sure to bring a snack, there will be a joint meeting of the Zoning & Franchises and the Planning, Dispositions & Concessions Committees on the Manhattanville re-zoning on December 12 at 10:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall. Zoning & Franchises will be voting on Columbia’s 197-c plan […]
From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, www.gvshp.org Want to help save your neighborhood? Come to the SOUTH VILLAGE TOWN HALL MEETING Find out what’s going on with the effort to secure landmark status for the South Village, and how you can help. Join us in fighting to stop the growing number of demolitions […]
Blatantly and completely mirrored from Curbed, because sometimes you can’t improve on brillance:Thursday, December 6, 2007, by Robert[Photo via Brit in Brooklyn] There’s a meeting coming up next week in Brooklyn about the “proposed disposal” of the buildings on the Brooklyn Navy Yard property alternately called Admiral’s Row or Officer’s Row. We know this because […]
Preservationists question Columbia’s expansion plan BY DAVID FREEDLANDER amNewYorkDecember 5, 2007 Backers of Columbia University’s planned expansion into west Harlem contend that the neighborhood comprises little more than low-slung auto body shops and abandoned buildings. Preservationists, however, say look closer and you’ll see spectacular architecture that holds a living link to the city’s past. “A […]
Last week, it was announced that 227 Duffield Street, which was slated to be demolished as part of the Downtown Brooklyn Redevelopment Plan, will be spared. Read all about it. Duffield Street Saved!Brooklyn Downtown STAR City woman leads charge against eminent domainamNewYork Real Estate Round-Up Sympathetic Judge Helps Save Alleged …Brooklyn Daily Eagle
As reported by our friends over at Queens Crap: http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2007/12/developer-lies-about-st-saviours.html From the Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2007/12/05/2007-12-05_decision_to_scrap_housing_plan_may_end_i.html) The owner of a historic church site in Maspeth has abruptly scrapped a controversial plan to build housing there – a surprise move that ironically increases the likelihood the church will be demolished. Maspeth Development LLC’s proposal to construct 27 […]
