As Community Board 3 tries to reach a consensus on the future of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, a new group has emerged on Grand Street, calling for compromise. Here's their flyer:
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Is the Lower East Side ready to make a deal? That's the question two urban planners hired by the city will be seeking to answer when they meet with members of Community Board 3's SPURA Task Force Thursday night. ...
It seemed so simple. Members of the Chinatown Working Group (CWG) were being asked to approve a fairly routine document -- a job description of sorts for an urban planning consultant who will begin working with the organization later...
The ongoing debate about the future of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area revolves around the issue of affordable vs. market rate housing. But during Community Board 3's deliberations, other topics., such as the need for new schools and...
Members of the Chinatown Working Group will present revised zoning proposals to Community Board 3's land use committee tonight. The coalition - representing 50 neighborhood organizations - intends to submit a comprehensive community development plan to the city in...
Monday night, community activists met in a sweltering auditorium at University Settlement to play a game. No money changed hands, but there were plenty of poker faces, and the stakes were high. The participants were members of Community Board...
Last year, after sixty years of selling fruits and vegetables from a beyond bare bones storefront at 400 Grand Street, cranky but beloved Ruby Baumgarten decided to call it quits. Now the ground-floor tenement space is about to get...
CB3's land use committee has decided to delay the next scheduled discussion of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). The facilitators working with the panel, John Shapiro and Eve Baron, have been meeting individually with "stakeholders." Last night...
The Community Board 3 panel responsible for coming up with a plan for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) got back to work last week. Chairman David McWater led the group in a conversation about...
A coalition of community groups and the Pratt Center for Community Development have released a comprehensive report examining what residents would like to see done with the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). The initiative, known as "SPURA Matters,"...
