Here's an update on a story we were all over last year: the threatened closure of the Pitt Station Post Office on Clinton Street. In November, the U.S. Postal Service announced it was removing the location from a nationwide...
We've been keeping an eye on the demolition of the old Young Israel building on East Broadway. In January, workers were just beginning to remove the contents of the 1837-erea building. Since that time, the project has been going...
We just returned from the Rutgers Houses (Madison & Rutgers), where Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Paterson, Speaker Silver and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan made a major announcement. Thanks to the federal stimulus bill, 21 New York City public housing developments...
A few weeks ago, we told you about the new car sharing program Connect by Hertz has established at the Seward Park Co-op on Grand Street. But it turns out that's just one of the green initiatives the cooperative...
There were signs this week that the painstaking community-driven process to come up with a development plan for the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area may finally be picking up speed. In a presentation before Community Board 3, city officials...
Representatives of the Cabrini Elder Care facility on East 5th Street came to Community Board 3 with a problem Monday night. The nursing home's lease is up in a couple of years, and so far, their search for a...
It's a whole new world below Delancey. Beginning in April, the Hester Street Fair, a new weekend market, is coming to a tree-lined lot next to Seward Park. There will be more than 60 vendors participating each day, including...
From the ashes of a terrible tragedy, a bit of good news has emerged. It was last February 24th that an electrical fire swept through an old tenement building on James Street, near St. James Place in Chinatown. Three...
No one ever accused Harold "Heshy" Jacob of holding back. A dominant figure on Grand Street for more than 30 years, he has strong opinions and is not afraid to express them loud enough for everyone to hear. Calling...
It was a tough afternoon for developer Serge Hoyda at the Board of Standards and Appeals. As we've reported in the past, he wants to convert 180 Ludlow, a stalled hotel project, into a 20-story residential rental building. Commissioners...
