Historic Diner Needs a Home to Escape Demolition

Campaign To Save NYC’s Oldest Diner (Moondance):In Urgent Need of Vacant Lot For TransportMy name is Michael Perlman, and I am a preservationist who is launching an effort with the American Diner Museum, to spare NYC’s oldest extant diner, the Moondance Diner (ca. 1933 or earlier) from the wrecking ball. The diner is located in […]

Report from the Rally Against the Condo-Hotel

from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, http://www.gvshp.org/ BIG CROWD RALLIES AGAINST TRUMP SOHO CONDO-HOTEL: Over 100 demonstrators,including Assemblymember Deborah Glick, City Council Zoning Subcommittee Chair Tony Avella, and representatives of City Councilmember Alan Gerson joined GVSHP, the SoHo Alliance, and more than a dozen community groups for a press conference this Sunday calling […]

Demostration this Sunday against the Trump SoHo Condo-Hotel

DEMONSTRATION THIS SUNDAY, MARCH 4, at 1 pm AGAINST THE 45-STORY TRUMP SOHO ‘CONDO-HOTEL’ at Spring and Varick Streets * Tell the City to Stop Helping Trump and Start Protecting Our Neighborhoods and Enforcing Our Zoning Rules COME TO THE DEMONSTRATION: Please join us this Sunday, March 4 at 1 pm at Spring and Varick […]

Trump's at it again! Get ready to demonstrate on Sunday

Trump Caught Yet Again!: GVSHP has found the developers of the planned Trump SoHo Condo-Hotel yet again advertising their development as a ‘residence’ with ‘living spaces,’ in spite of explicit zoning restrictions prohibiting such a use, and repeated assurances from the City that this development would not violate the zoning for the area. GVSHP and […]

One more NY place falls to condos

From the New York Sun: Goodnight, MoondanceBY GARY SHAPIRO – Staff Reporter of the SunFebruary 13, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/48536 On the western frontier of SoHo, the Moondance Diner is dancing off into the sunset: Along with an adjacent two-story parking garage and a parking lot, it is going to be developed into luxury residential condominiums. The […]