A new look for the Delancey and Essex Municipal Parking Garage. The NYC Department of Transportation plans a $4 million renovation of the five-story structure. The revamp of the 40-year old facility will feature a dramatic new facade, incorporating...
Following Community Board 3's land use committee meeting last week, we published some fuzzy drawings depicting what a "new" Essex Street Market located on the southeast corner of Essex and Delancey streets might look like. The Economic Development Corp....
The future of the Essex Street Market has been grabbing all of the attention lately, but there is other news this week concerning the Seward park redevelopment process. Tuesday night, Community Board 3 approved "Urban Design Principles" for the...
We'll have a full report from last night's Seward park redevelopment planning session in the days ahead. But since architectural renderings (even if they are just for demonstration purposes) cause an endless amount of fascination, we wanted to put...
Last summer, I conducted an extensive interview with Barry Chusid, a longtime Lower East Side resident fighting to save 400 Grand Street, the apartment building he'd called home for many years. This morning there's some sad news to report...
Last night, Community Board 3 resumed a debate begun last month about whether Walmart is salivating at the possibility of opening a store on the Lower East Side and what (if anything) should be done to block the controversial...
We usually recognize most everyone who shows up at Community Board 3 meetings. This is especially true of the monthly Seward Park redevelopment confab, which until recently wasn't exactly the hottest ticket in town. But as CB3 begins to...
We'll have a complete report from tonight's CB3/SPURA Committee meeting later, but here's a quick recap of what transpired this evening. There were no decisions made about the future of the Essex Street Market, but quite a few people...
As we have been reporting, Community Board 3 will discuss the future of the Essex Street Market this evening. We just received the following letter from David Quart, vice president with the NYC Economic Development Corp., which operates the...
The following post was written by Cynthia Lamb, founder of the neighborhood organization, Save the Essex Street Market:
The future of the Essex Street Market is finally being brought to the table at the upcoming Community Board 3 meeting (Wednesday,...
