On Monday night, it's back to work for members of Community Board 3's SPURA task force. They've had a lot to think about since last month's meeting, in which CB3 leaders unveiled draft guidelines for the redevelopment of the...
Earlier this fall, neighborhood preservation organization GOLES and the Pratt Center for Community Development conducted three community meetings to learn more about what residents would like to see happen on the Seward Park redevelopment site. Pratt presented its findings...
Last night, Community Board 3 accomplished something naysayers said was impossible -- they presented a (draft) proposal for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). And they suggested the full board could vote on a version...
Yesterday we posted a video of City Councilmember Margaret Chin's remarks during a rally on the Seward Park redevelopment site over the weekend. Now, a bit more from the rally/vigil, as well as more from Chin, who spoke with...
The following opinion piece was written by Lower East Side resident Brett Leitner:
This note is in response to Julia Kent and Ernest Wurzbach’s letter about SPURA published in The Lo-Down on Thursday, October 28. As a leader of...
A lot of people have big expectations heading into tonight's fourth and final mediated discussion on the future of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). At the last session, in August, facilitator John Shapiro acknowledged members of Community...
Last night, Community Board 3 and city planners took the SPURA show on the road. A fairly large group of residents from the Grand Street cooperatives attended a briefing at the Educational Alliance on a two-year-old initiative to finally...
After a two month hiatus, a Community Board 3 panel seeking a consensus on the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) will reconvene on October 20th. It will be the fourth and final "facilitated session" led...
Barry Chusid is fighting to stay in his home, a 100-year-old, city-owned tenement located at 400 Grand Street. But this is not your average story of a guy at war with City Hall. That's because Chusid (and the residents...
John Shapiro, an urban planner working with Community Board 3's SPURA task force, said it succinctly last week: "There's not much here to work with, quite frankly." He was talking about the results of a game in which participants...
