Tomorrow night Community Board 3 is scheduled to hold one of its most significant votes in several years -- deciding whether to approve of the city's land use application (ULURP) for the Seward Park Mixed Development Plan. After three...
Community Board 3's land use committee last night voted in favor of the Seward Park Mixed-Use Development Plan, but no one was in much of a mood to celebrate the occasion. After three years of deliberations, a divided panel...
On Wednesday evening, members of Community Board 3 will meet one last time before a key vote next week to support or oppose the city's land use application for the Seward Park Redevelopment Plan. The proposal outlines the redevelopment...
In a little more than a week, Community Board 3 will be voting on the Seward Park Mixed-Use Development Plan, a project that is destined to change the Lower East Side for decades to come. Behind the scenes, there's...
The following story first appeared in the May 2012 edition of The Lo-Down's print magazine:
It’s a beautiful spring morning on the Lower East Side in the year 2022. You have awakened in your sun-splashed rental apartment on the 24th...
Last week, the city officially began the public approval process for the Seward Park Development Project. A master plan for the nine parcels adjacent to the Williamsburg Bridge will be voted on by Community Board 3 next month. The...
Last week, following Community Board 3's public hearing, we outlined the city's plan for the Seward Park Development Project. Now here's a more detailed account from the presentation, which mapped out their vision for the 7-acre parcel, Manhattan's most...
A little more than a year after Community Board 3 approved its planning guidelines for the Seward Park redevelopment site (SPURA), the city last night finally detailed how much of the proposal it is willing to embrace. At a...
Finally this week, the residents of 400 Grand Street got to hear directly from the city about their fate. For nearly three years, they've been desperately trying to get answers about the status of their building, which sits on...
It's the biggest moment in the Seward Park redevelopment process (SPURA) since Community Board 3 approved planning guidelines for the 7-acre parcel last January. Tomorrow afternoon, the city will convene a public meeting meant to solicit feedback on a...
