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....
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...
Yesterday, affordable housing advocates and former tenants gathered at the corner of Delancey and Suffolk Streets to mark 42 years of inaction on the five city-owned parcels known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area. The lots have remained...
We were amused by this gem in "The Villager's" gossip column:
Don’t believe the blog hype? A Lower East
Side blog charged that representatives of the Mayor’s Office recently
“ducked out” of a Community Board 3 task force meeting on the
development of the...
