November 18th, 2009
Last night CB3's economic development committee was briefed on three major neighborhood development projects:
- 710 East 9th Street: Loisaida, University Settlement and Phipps Houses
are collaborating on housing for young adults (18-24), who have aged
out of foster care or are homeless. There will also be a community
center in the building. City Councilmember Rosie Mendez came to the
meeting to express her support.
- 302 East 2nd Street: a 161-unit rental apartment building near Avenue D & Houston (see map). There will be at least 34 permanently affordable units in the development (or 20-percent), and 9-thousand feet of commercial space. A "businessman" whose name was not disclosed is buying the property from the city. The developer is Madison Equities.
Continue reading Community Board Briefed on Three Development Projects
November 18th, 2009
Malachi Farrell: The
Shops Are Closed
© Malachi Farrell, 2009, ARS, New York
/ ADAGP, Paris
Photo: Bernard Fontanel, Courtesy CAPC
Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand) will host Malachi Farrell's installation exhibit, The Shops Are Closed with an opening reception on Friday from 6pm -9pm. Malachi Farrell: The Shops Are
Closed is curated by Jane Kim/Thrust Projects and is concurrent
with Farrell’s show at Thrust Projects: Strange Fruit in the Streets
(November 13, 2009 – January 3, 2010). The evening will include special animation screenings by the artist and a dance party with guest DJ Jools Palmer.
November 18th, 2009
New York Times Columnist Gail Collins (the first woman to edit the Times editorial page) will be at the Tenement Museum (108 Orchard Street) tomorrow night for the reading/lecture series, Tenement Talks, discussing her latest book, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.You can read an interview with her on Jezebel here.
Talks begin at 6pm and are FREE and open to the public. The event will be open captioned.
Photo by Tony Cenicola for The New York Times
November 18th, 2009
Your only chance to catch Lily Tomlin in NYC this year will be at Dixon Place next Monday for their Grand Opening Benefit, celebrating their new home on Chrystie Street. The award-winning actress and ground-breaking comedienne (Laugh-in, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,
West Wing, I Heart Huckabees, Desperate Housewives) will perform a selection of her timeless characters, including the beloved Ernestine and Edith Ann. The evening will be hosted by Lily's pal, comedian RENO
(Rebel Without a Pause, Reno Finds Her Mom, Reno in Rage and Rehab) and a special dessert reception will be held for the two of them, after the show.
November 18th, 2009
NYC will debut new express bus lanes on the East Side by next fall.
Experts offer up advice to Mayor Mike on coming across as "humble."
The Daily News: "Older locals want lower east side post office to stay."
Buffalo's WIVB talks with Shelly Silver about the state's budget crisis.
EV Grieve examines the high-end makeover of 229 East 2nd Street.
Bowery Boogie checks in on the progress at 38 Delancey: 30-thousand feet of retail/commercial space available for lease.
The Allen & Delancey saga continues.
November 18th, 2009
Yesterday, we mentioned tonight's District 1 Community Education Council meeting, in which the future of the Girls Prep Charter School will be debated. Now Gotham Schools has a good overview of the controversy – and details on a campaign by parents to protest the school's expansion plans.
The charter school currently shares a building with P.S. 188 and
P.S. 94, a school serving disabled students, and cannot expand further
in the space it occupies there. DOE officials have three ideas for how to accommodate the new middle
school, which they plan to present at tomorrow evening’s District 1
Community Education Council meeting. In one scenario, P.S. 94 would move out of the district, allowing
Girls Prep to expand in its current location. To compensate for the
loss of P.S. 94, a new program for disabled students would open,
sharing space with PS. 184, the Shuang Wen school. Another suggestion would have the Girls Prep middle school open in a
building currently shared by three secondary schools: the School for
Global Leaders, the Marta Valle Secondary School and the Lower East
Side Preparatory High School. The School for Global Leaders would then
move into P.S. 20. This plan would also allow P.S. 94 to expand in the
building it shares with P.S. 188 and the Girls Prep elementary school. The third proposal would have the Girls Prep middle school share a
building with P.S. 20. (The full memo from the Office of Portfolio
Planning outlining the three scenarios is below the jump.)
Continue reading Parents Mobilize to Fight Proposed Girls Prep Expansion Plan
November 18th, 2009
As explained in the post below, last month's CB3 meeting dealing with SPURA (the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area) became rather heated. At last night's committee meeting, it was cited by Committee Chair David McWater as one reason he was hesitant to resume SPURA deliberations. Here's the audio recording from last month's contentious discussion.
Download CB3 SPURA cancellation
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