Save the Lower East Side!

Here's a very  brief snippet from the Occupy AltBank talk on zoning and affordable housing last week posted on facebook by Sumumba Sobu...

In 1961, the city updated its zoning. This time, the city's planners responded to the Modernist movement which had been around since 191...

A rare opportunity to learn the labor perspective in Chinatown. And Peter Kwong is an authority on Chinatown. Sunday, Jan. 10, 3pm, 345 Gr...

Even if restaurants do provide many more jobs than a 7-Eleven, are restaurants as sustainable as 7-Elevens? That's exactly the question ...

EV Grieve has been following the piecemeal clearance of all the commerce on 14th Street for some yet unknown development. Locals expect a h...

If NYCHA follows through with its infill plan, building market-rate housing among the subsidized projects, I bet that within a decade the ci...

Irrational opposition to NO711 takes me back to the EV/LES rezoning. The supporters of the rezoning were as outraged at me back then as I am...

I posted this originally as a comment at the Villager in response to an article on Margaret Chin's council campaign.  What troubles me...

NO 7-Eleven: resist chains and corporate control has a city-wide petition on line. Take a look at the great comments along with the signa...

We're going to chalk up the park at the Tompkins Square Park nonbandshell at 2pm and then  take our chalk and our Community Wheel of ...

Since some people still claim the EV is being downzoned, here's a telling story about DCP: DCP's original plan allowed 120 feet on H...