Over the last several months, as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area planning process chugged forward, we’ve sat through countless community board meetings, interviewed dozens of local residents and decision-makers and published op-eds from various players invested in the...
Our obsessive coverage of the Seward Park redevelopment talks continues today with a closer look at the future of the Essex Street Market. As we reported last month, quite a few Lower East Side residents objected to language in...
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The following opinion piece was written by Brett Leitner, founder of SHARE, a neighborhood organization advocating for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area:
Now is the Time for Progress on SPURA!
The saga of SPURA has come...
Editor's note: The following opinion piece was written by Joel Feingold, a community organizer with GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side). It was posted on the Villager web site a short time ago. Feingold sent the article to The...
A week from Monday, Community Board 3's SPURA task force is scheduled to vote on a set of planning guidelines for the Seward Park development site. Late last night, a key player in CB3's deliberations, GOLES (Good Old Lower...
Quite a few people were rushing to submit comments about Community Board 3's proposed SPURA guidelines in time for yesterday's deadline. One issue that's gotten some Lower East Side residents pretty riled up in recent weeks is the future...
As we noted in an earlier post today, Community Board 3 is preparing for a big vote later this month regarding the future of the Seward Park redevelopment site. Affordable housing advocates and Grand Street co-op residents don't agree...
You don't need a crystal ball to predict it's going to be a pivotal month for SPURA, the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area. After two-and-a-half years of deliberations, Community Board 3 plans to vote on detailed guidelines for the...
We already wrote (extensively!) about Monday night's meeting of Community Board 3's SPURA task force. But there were some important issues we weren't able to discuss in the main story, including a proposal to set aside space for a...
Whose neighborhood is it? This is the question that has divided the Lower East Side for at least the past 40 years and has stymied the development of the most valuable piece of land New York City owns. Last...
