From Landmark West! ([email protected]) No Vote, But Landmarks Commission Sends Historical Society Back to the Drawing BoardAt its public meeting this morning, April 17, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (that is, the 7 out of 11 commissioners who have not had to recuse themselves due to conflicts of interest) sent the New-York Historical Society back to […]
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 […]
Preservationists Take Aim in Court At Open Records LawBY MATTHEW CHAYES – Special to the SunApril 12, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/52328 Preservationists battling a 350-year-old Upper West Side synagogue’s expansion efforts added a new wrinkle to their fight yesterday, asking a state judge to overturn what they say is a citywide ban put into place after September […]
From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, www.gvshp.org HEARING ON NYU-MEGA DORM AIR RIGHTS APRIL 17The legal challenge by neighbors to the air rights transfer for the planned 262 ft. tall NYU mega-dorm at 120 East 12th Street will be heard at the Board of Standards and Appeals on Tuesday, April 17th, at approximately […]
Chelsea Opponents Stymie Seminary Development PlanBY ANNIE KARNI – Special to the SunApril 3, 2007URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/51678 The General Theological Seminary’s plan to build a 15-story condominium development on its collegelike campus in Chelsea has been foiled by local opposition, seminary leaders said yesterday. Church officials said they sought to build the 151-foot-tall glass apartment tower […]
N-YHS NEWSFLASH: The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has set a public hearing date to review the New-York Historical Society project on Tuesday, March 20, (time and location tba). Make sure the LPC hears you! Please email Chair Robert B. Tierney ([email protected]) and cc. key elected officials (contact info below). The Round 1 votes are […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
The only reason why the Garment industry is still in NY is because of the Garment Center Special District. To call it “anachronistic” is to miss the point completely. From Crain’s New York Business NYC readies garment industry for rezoning By: Anne MichaudPublished: February 14, 2007 – 1:18 pm In a policy reversal, the Bloomberg […]
