Save the Lower East Side!

When I first saw this short film , I wondered if I too would end a relationship over differences of opinion about overdevelopment. Probabl...

Yesterday the City Council Landmarks subcommittee voted to deny legal landmark status to an 1817 townhouse on the Bowery, deferring to the ...

St. Mark's Bookstore may close, and 135 Bowery, a historic landmark, may be demolished (more below). Petition to save St. Mark...

Janet Freeman was the salt of the earth, the New York salt, from way, way deep in the mine. From CoDA: We are saddened to tell y...

Rent deregulation, believe it or not, raises market rate rents . The conservative Manhattan Institute, in their study of deregulation in ...

Market-rate renters in New York complain that they pay exorbitant rents because their regulated neighbors underpay. In their justifiable a...

Detailed account of what's happening in Chinatown from Roland Li of Real Estate Weekly. Lots of perspectives included, but Jones' co...

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 ...