Chin calls for more SCRIE reform
BY SAM SPOKONY | Following the state Legislature’s recent plan to include thousands more low-income seniors in a city-administered rent-freeze program, a group of city councilmembers are calling for...
View ArticlePearl Paint closes on Canal St.
Legendary art-supply store Pearl Paint, at 308 Canal St., closed Thurs., April 17. It had occupied the six-story building — now for sale — since around 1960. Before then it was on Church St. where it...
View ArticleRecreation rocks on the river
BY LAUREN PRICE | Restored and reimagined piers, dazzling water views, lush grassy expanses and a leg of the nation’s most heavily used bikeway are among the highlights at Hudson River Park, which...
View ArticleHell’s Kitchen is heating up with riverfront renewal
This real estate section covering the broader Downtown area is a new feature of NYC Community Media and will appear periodically in The Villager. Email questions, comments and story ideas to...
View ArticleHell’s Kitchen moves up to the head of the pack
BY LAUREN PRICE | Its established roots are still very evident. Hell’s Kitchen has always been a closely knit neighborhood rich in cultural opportunities and old New York history. But while the West...
View ArticleThe quiet allure of Tribeca
BY LAUREN PRICE | Running from Canal St. south to Barclay St. and from Broadway to the Hudson River, Tribeca is a neighborhood of some 16,000 residents that has grown up amidst cavernous cast-iron...
View ArticleLong Island City: Skyline views fuel a boom
BY LAUREN PRICE | Long Island City in southwestern Queens — running from the East River and Newtown Creek to Broadway and east to roughly 51st St. and Hobart St. — is home to some 70,000 residents,...
View ArticleLower West Side among fastest changing neighborhoods
BY LAUREN PRICE | Intertwined neighborhoods stretching from Gansevoort St. to 34th and from Broadway to the Hudson River, the Meatpacking District, the High Line and Chelsea are among Manhattan’s...
View ArticleFlatiron is at crossroads of history and hot
BY LAUREN PRICE | Given the multiplicity of ways Manhattanites identify their neighborhoods geographically, when some people mention the Flatiron and Madison Square Park neighborhoods, others have in...
View ArticleA chill is in the air, but Manhattan, Brooklyn real estate markets are hot...
BY LAUREN PRICE | Manhattan real estate remains hot and is increasingly exclusive. That’s the message from Corcoran’s second quarter 2014 report. The average price for resale co-ops, resale condos...
View ArticleIs Dante the latest biz to be burned by rent inferno? Or not?
BY TEQUILA MINSKY | On a sunny but frigid day, the sandwich board touting “100 years in business” outside of Caffe Dante didn’t quite tell the whole story. The MacDougal St. cafe exudes old-word...
View ArticleBespoke Kitchen: Local food, expertly prepared
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Are you a locavore? Would you love delicious food — locally sourced — and prepared by one of the city’s premier chefs? Do you maybe have some food allergies — let’s face it, who...
View ArticleWestbeth and how the West was won — and lost
BY ALBERT AMATEAU | Jeffrey Trask, professor of American cultural and intellectual history, found the perfect place to present his lecture on “The Social Geography of Village Housing in the Sixties.”...
View ArticleOde to a sinkhole…or, Oh, that sinking feeling
Maria Logis, who took this photo, says this sorry sinkhole, on Mercer St. between W. Houston and Bleecker Sts., is actually one of her favorite spots. Not fit for sitting, the sorely sloped spot is at...
View ArticleProgress Report: Union Square — 40 years of evolution and growth
BY JENNIFER E. FALK | As the Union Square Partnership celebrates its 40th anniversary, our community has a lot to reflect upon. Union Square was a very different place in 1976: New York City was facing...
View ArticleUnion Square: East Side transforms — Tammany, tech hub, trees
A flurry of development is bringing a new look to Union Square’s east side. With several major projects underway, real estate development, renovations and upgrades are breathing new life into...
View ArticleUnion Square: Tech, creative companies click with booming hub
New York’s tech scene keeps heating up — and nowhere is it more evident than in Union Square. In the last few years tech giants like Buzzfeed, Ebay, Dropbox, Spotify and many others have invested in...
View ArticleUnion Square: A cornucopia of established and new restaurants
It’s been a busy year for Union Square’s restaurant scene, and the district continues to draw new concepts and eateries from the city’s best restaurateurs. With hallmark anniversaries for several...
View ArticleUnion Square: Public programs are bigger and better than ever
As the Union Square Partnership business improvement district prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary, its public programs are bigger and better than ever before. While the district has a long...
View ArticleBetraying its mandate, L.P.C. hikes Gansevoort St. heights
BY YANNIC RACK | The massively unpopular redevelopment of an entire block of Gansevoort St. can move ahead, after the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission this week voted to approve a modified plan...
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