The Bowery Alliance of Neighbors has a meeting at the Department of City Planning today -- to present its proposal for rezoning the east side of the Bowery. When the Lower East Side was rezoned last year, the west...
The Community Board 3 panel responsible for coming up with a plan for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) got back to work last week. Chairman David McWater led the group in a conversation about...
The number of stalled construction sites in New York City dropped slightly last month, from 531 (in October) to 515. We found out a bit more this week about one of those idled sites, 183 East Broadway, a project...
Just posted on real estate firm Massey Knakal's blog: the sale of 112 Stanton Street, a commercial loft building. According to the posting, the building (between Essex and Ludlow) sold for $2,400,000. It's a 6-story building with 10-thousand square...
We recently visited the site for the Tenement Museum's new Visitor Center and were lucky enough to get a tour from Executive Vice President, Barry Roseman. The museum bought the building at 103 Orchard Street in 2007 (directly across...
Photo by Jeremy Barwick (via Flickr)
We last reported on the Chinatown Working Group back in June, after a well-attended town hall meeting in which concerned residents spoke out about a wide range of development, economic and cultural issues. Since...
SPURA 42 years in the making: Hoping for more than parking lotsA CB3 committee planning the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) resumes deliberations Monday night with a "brainstorming" session about general design principles. This afternoon,...
Photograph for The Lo-Down by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis In the last several weeks, we have had a good deal of coverage about SPURA, the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area. For 40 years, the community has been haggling...
The before and after pictures tell the story. Residents of 112 Eldridge Street (between Broome and Grand) were living in terrible conditions. Walls had decayed, ceilings buckled, water could only be run in one unit at a time. But...
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....
