Category: Land
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Climate change puts Midtown in flood-risk zone
As storms become more intense, a lack of awareness is leaving communities unprepared.
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Mayor’s proposal to reduce building emissions raises concerns
The mayor’s proposal to make New York buildings more energy-efficient raises concerns.
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Following crime and mayhem, facing barriers to reporting
New York may be enjoying record low crime rates, but barriers to crime reporting are not following the same positive trend.
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Porno stores dwindle in Midtown
Adult video stores are moving away from an area once known for having the highest concentration of x-rated venues in New York, as the city continues putting pressure on this industry.
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New Year Brings Changes for Library’s Main Branch
This year the trustees of the New York Public Library have been thrust into the spotlight to defend their Central Library Plan, which would turn the library’s main branch into a combined research and circulation library. The 42nd Street building is a historic landmark, but also a widely used research library in the heart of…
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Affordable Housing Renovation Plans Trouble Residents Facing Relocation
Plans to renovate a SRO complex in Hell’s Kitchen leave dozens of tenants uncertain about their future in the neighborhood.
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After Sandy: Utility Trucks Replace Union Square Farmers’ Market
The northwest corner of Union Square, at 17th Street and Broadway, on most Saturdays the domain of the popular Union Square Greenmarket, was overtaken by utility trucks from across the country. In addition to the now-familiar Con Edison trucks, there were trucks from ComEd, Duke Energy, Entergy, Georgia Power, Indiana Michigan Power, and Pepco.…
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Hockey Lockout Puts Local Businesses in the Penalty Box
While the NHL continues its lockout between players and owners this year, local business around Madison Square Garden are already gearing up for the effects of a lost season.
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Supporting Small Business? Chelsea Residents Know How Hard It Is
The presidential candidates talk about support for small businesses, but rising prices make it hard for Chelsea independents.
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Veterans Honored with Free Homes
An October 8 editorial in The New York Times claimed that 8,000 homeless veterans in South California are not getting the housing that they were promised by the Department of Veteran Affairs. In New York, various independent organizations have taken up the call to support veterans’ housing needs. Jon Moldovan, a former Army sergeant, won…
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LGBT Synagogue Faces Funding Shortfall for New Home
The planned $17 million relocation of New York’s largest LGBT synagogue, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), from the West Village to Midtown West faces a delay of its scheduled 2013 opening due to a $5.5 million fundraising shortfall.
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City to Build Private Housing on NYCHA Land
Looking to increase revenue, NYCHA seeks bids from contractors to kick off plan to build market rate housing on publicly-owned land.
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Developer Clears Hurdles for Demolition of Historic Building
After a two-year delay, a new office building is set to go up in the Meatpacking District, though no timetable for start of construction has been set.
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Clinton Theater Seeks ‘Legal’ Status
The Emerging Artists Theatre Company has been trying to lease a space on 45th St. since last February. But first, it must change the building’s decades-old certificate of occupancy.
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Midtown West: Walking Can Be Bad for Your Health
Transportation Alternatives has compiled a color-coded list of the most dangerous Community Board districts for pedestrians. Community District Five topped the list with 8,604 accidents during a 15-year period and a “code red” designation.
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Chelsea Market’s Growing Pains
Plans to ad a 150-room hotel and new offices on top of the existing Chelsea Market building have stirred up strong feelings in the community.
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Port Authority Greenmarket: An Oasis in the Midtown West Food Desert
The Port Authority farmer’s market offers fresh produce in an unusual location. But how much does this small market contribute to the fresh food options in the area around Port Authority and Times Square?
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Bits of an Old Theatre Slip Through a Salvager’s Grasp
Evan Blum helped to salvage the Helen Hayes Theatre before its demolition in 1982. Thirty years later, he got a chance to win back some of the theatre’s remains.
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Where Theatre Once Stood, a Hotel Looms
The Marriot Marquis in Times Square is known to many as one of the largest hotels in Manhattan, but to theatre-lovers it is known as the former site of the Helen Hayes Theatre. We revisit what made the theatre special — so special, in fact, that it inspired protests when developers announced it was going…
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New York Learns How to Stay Relevant From Europe Fashion Centers
New York looks to other global fashion cities like Paris, Milan, and London and to the continuing influence of Asia to help sustain its dominant place in the fashion world.
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