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A momentous vote last night at Community Board 3: they voted, in effect, to curb the trend of commercial real estate speculation that has be...

Candlelight vigil for 35 Cooper Square Tuesday, Feb. 22 from 5:30 to 6:30pm (btwn 5th & 6th Streets where the Bowery meets 3rd Avenue) B...

From the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors The information below explains why several community and preservation groups are having a press confer...

From the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors: 35 Cooper Square Press Conference and Rally Friday, 1/28 4:30 p.m. 35 Cooper Square There will be ...

Tuesday Jan. 11 is the deadline for community comment submissions (send to spura@cb3manhattan.org ) on SPURA -- the largest vacant land a...

Into the complex relationships of Chinatown's political economy has entered a new and powerful player: the Chinatown BID. Last night Co...

While the West Village is hosting a town hall meeting on the future of NYU expansion at Our Lady of Pompeii, basement, Carmine & Bleecke...

Chinatown Partnership presented its Chinatown Business Improvement District (BID) proposal to CB3 Tuesday night without going first to the ...

Two Bowery townhouses from around 1800 are immediately threatened with demolition, 206 Bowery and 35 Cooper Square. I've included a lett...

EV Grieve posts a story close to home -- condo owners on my street want to cut down a willow tree in their back yard. The heading above com...

Tomorrow, Sunday, the Asian American Writer's Workshop is holding its Page Turner Festival PowerHouse Arena, 37 Main St Brooklyn DUMBO h...

I'm posting an exchange between me and a commenter on this blog about landmarking and community preservation, addressing the question of...

I owe EVGrieve an apology -- Grieve posted the Bowery exhibit with its poster and without irony. Still, I don't see in our neighborhood ...

None of the local bloggers have bothered to draw attention to the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors' effort to preserve the Bowery with its ...

I wrote and designed the exhibit. (Grateful thanks to Mike Geyer, Honey Millman and Andrea Coyle, without whose generosity and resources it ...

"Michael Shenker was the greatest man I ever met," said Seth Tobocman at last night's memorial. I can only copy his words: Mi...

Here is a list of memorials, thanks to EV Grieve . There are many testimonials in the comments section in Colin Moynihan's fine NY Times...

The conflict between preservationists and the Russian Orthodox Church on 2nd Street, the history of duplicity and distrust aside, comes down...

206 Bowery, a Federal row house from the early 1800's -- maybe as early as 1800 -- is being prepared for demolition. The residential ten...

Look carefully at the 3rd&4th Avenues rezoning: current zoning proposed zoning Clearly, the 3rd&4th Avenue rezoning will not serve ...