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Tuesday, October 03, 2023
2008 rezoning, still misunderstood
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Fifteen years after implementation, the 2008 East Village-Lower East Side Rezoning is still misunderstood. Apparently, no one reads the actu...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
A footnote to the History below of LESA and CWG
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A footnote on my role in CWG. Why I attend CWG I attended CWG meetings for two reasons: 1) because
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
The history of the Lower East Side Alliance, the EV/LES rezoning and the Chinatown Working Group, in 34 posts. Post 1: the origins
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A history of the Lower East Side Alliance, the EV/LES rezoning, the CWG and BAN
Post 2: The encounter with the Community Board District Manager
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. At our meeting, Shelly expl...
Post 3: The formation of the Lower East Side Alliance and the town hall on bar proliferation
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Another resource emerged qu...
Post 4: A movement begins and succeeds
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. In the audience was a Bleek...
Post 5: A lesson on legislation and how ignorance rules
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. One of the means by which t...
Post 6: The end of LESA
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. The dissolution of the LESA
Post 7: Lessons for activists from the history of LESA
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. If there is a problem that ...
Post 8: The rezoning of the East Village and Lower East Side: the background
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. The background of the EV/LE...
Post 9: The new CB chair, the EVCC, and the Task Force
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. The new CB chair, David (th...
Post 10: Reality overtakes anticipation: the zoning as it really was
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. It should not have been su...
Post 11: The origin of this blog, Save the Lower East Side
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Early in the process, when ...
Post 12: DCP's first town hall and its consequences, AAFE's support for upzoning in Chinatown
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. At the town hall, a variet...
Post 13: Political alliances in Community District 3
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Policy-making in Community ...
Post 14: Anti-gentrificationist vs affordable housing non profits and the city's strategy that divides them
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Housing activism divides be...
Post 15: Astroturf: LESCAZ
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. The CB chair shielded hims...
Poat 16: A digression: the alternative to our current dysfunctional model of affordable housing
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. There are models of affor...
Post 17: Enter Chinese Staff and Workers Association
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. After DCP had presented its...
Post 18: An angry hearing
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. A rezoning process must go ...
Post 19: The origin of the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. The other community exclude...
Post 20: The Chinatown Working Group's first formation
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. I was not present at the fi...
Post 21: CWG initial success and troubles
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Jay (I've altered the n...
Post 22: The second formation of the Chinatown Working Group
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. When the smoke cleared from...
Post 23: The CWG first public town hall and the Coalition
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Prior to the restructuring,...
Post 24: The property owners, false worries
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Late in the process, after...
Post 25: Pratt hired, reports, Victor pushes forward, property owners defect, CAAAV proposes options
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. After restructuring, the CW...
Post 26: Submission to CB's 1, 2 and 3, the crippling quorum
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. The CAPZ committee consider...
Post 27: Dysfunction and a warning
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Once all the options had be...
Post 29: Continued dysfunction and collapse
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Having completed a plan, Vi...
Post 30: Coalition's meeting with DCP
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Whether the CWG members wer...
Post 31: Revitalization, second restructuring and the role of CB3 and its chair
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Margaret Fung, whom I canno...
Post 32: The Towers
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. Three meetings before the p...
Post 33: All or nothing at all
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. The waterfront towers prese...
Post 34: Where we are now and persistent misconceptions
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As always, with the exception of public figures, I use altered names to protect the individuals in this history. A rezoning takes a long tim...
Sunday, June 09, 2019
Highbar installation
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Posted for the benefit of the City Parks and Recreation Department. View it after the jump.
Saturday, June 01, 2019
A new calisthenics park for the East River Park?
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Also for the benefit of the City Department of Parks and Recreation.
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Friday, June 02, 2017
AltBank at Left Forum 2017
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Sunday, May 15, 2016
Left Forum panel 2016
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