Congregation Shearith Israel Update

From Landmark West! Wednesday, August 15, 2007, came and went. The significance? That was the deadline imposed by the Board of Standards and Appeals in their June 15, 2007, letter to Congregation Shearith Israel (CSI). “The Board desires to process applications on a timely basis and requests that applicants notify the Board if they are […]

Whitney Museum Construction Continues to Annoy Neighbors

From the Architectural Record Whitney Designs Downtown as Neighbors FumeAugust 16, 2007by Alec Appelbaum Is the Whitney Museum of American Art’s apparent construction curse site-specific? Neighbors of the institution’s Brutalist home on Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side have rejected three ambitious proposals in 21 years to expand Marcel Breuer’s 1966 building. Now they’re chiding the […]

Hospital Attempts to Escape Rezoning

From Landmark West! Public Forum on Jewish Home & Hospital (on 106th Street) Redevelopment PlanWednesday, August 15 at 6 p.m.Jewish Home and Hospital, 120 West 106th Street, Auditorium, First FloorIn the midst of the community’s hard-won effort to rezone the neighborhood between 97-110th Streets, the Jewish Home & Hospital (106th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam) […]

St. Vincent's Chooses Pei As Architect for New Hospital

From the Villager St. Vincent’s picks architect for hospital building By Albert Amateau St. Vincent’s Hospital last week introduced the international architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners as the designer of its proposed new hospital in Greenwich Village. The Aug. 1 announcement came at a meeting of the Community Working Group that St. […]

Updates from Greenwich Village in Photos, Videos and Words

An op-ed published in the Villager newspaper by GVSHP Executive Director Andrew Berman regarding NYU’s 25-year strategic plan, and the need for the university to find locations outside of the Village/NoHo/East Village if they are to continue to expand. GVSHP and a coalition of community groups, community boards, and elected officials have called upon NYU […]

NYU to Hold Open House on Future Plans

From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation , http://www.gvshp.org/ NYU “STRATEGIC PLAN OPEN HOUSE”: This Thursday, June 28, from 2 to 8 pm, NYU will be holding a “Strategic Plan Open House” at Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Square East. NYU’s announcement refers to it as “Planning for the next 25 years…be part of NYU’s […]

GTS Approved (somewhat) by Community Board

From Chelsea Now C.B. 4 to Seminary: Ninth Ave. building still too…. By Albert Amateau Community Board 4 on Wednesday reaffirmed its response to the new plans for the General Theological Seminary’s proposed mixed-use seven-story building for Ninth Ave. and for a smaller academic building on 20th St. in the seminary’s Chelsea Sq. campus. In […]

GVSHP responds to St. Vincent's and New School plans

From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation St. Vincent’s Hospital has been working on plans for big changes to its properties on 7th Avenue, and 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets in the West Village. The hospital has announced their intention to modernize and consolidate all of their facilities into one building of as much […]

Columbia Expansion Moves Forward Despite Summer Recess

From Crain’sColumbia expansion plowing ahead By: Anne MichaudPublished: May 31, 2007 – 3:06 pm Columbia University’s 17-acre expansion into West Harlem will enter into the city review process on Monday, following three years of delay and controversy. The review, which takes seven months, would rezone several city blocks near the Hudson River to create a […]

Welcome to the next big preservation battle in the Village

From the New York Times: February 10, 2007Greenwich Village Hospital Opts for Smaller but More EfficientBy RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village plans to build an entirely new hospital, probably across the street from its current site, and then sell most of its valuable real estate on Seventh Avenue to a developer. The […]