From State Senator Daniel Squadron's office:
New York State Senator Daniel Squadron, Congress Member Jerrold Nadler, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Assembly Member Deborah Glick, and Councilmember Margaret Chin will co-host a tenants rights forum on Thursday, bringing together...
Earlier today we learned Tishman Speyer and Black Rock Realty, owners of Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village, have decided to hand over the troubled middle class housing complex to its creditors. Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh is now out with a...
It was about three weeks ago that we first reported on possible zoning code violations at the Nolitan Hotel (40 Kenmare Street). For the past six months, residents have been complaining to the Department of Buildings that the project...
They are widely seen as an eyesore and a shameful reminder of long-simmering neighborhood feuds. But the five parking lots occupying the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) also serve a purpose. There are about 500 spaces - many...
Developers of a proposed apartment building envisioned on the northwest corner of Avenue D and Houston streets went before a committee of Community Board 3 last night. They came with renderings of the planned development, which would include 166...
Two-and-a-half years after the Young Israel Synagogue moved out of its building on East Broadway, demolition work has finally begun. They sold the building to a developer, who planned a new condo project. In exchange, the synagogue received several...
"Meet the Nolitans," beckons a new e-brochure from the not-yet-opened Nolitan Hotel, on the corner of Elizabeth and Kenmare Streets. Among the residents hanging out in this "authentic and endearing neighborhood:" fashion designers, restaurant proprietors and hair stylists. There's...
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...
