…does the new Hudson Square rezoning do? The Hudson Square rezoning for the first time allows new residential development in Hudson Square, which will in all likelihood increase the amount…
Read More…Hudson Square and the South Village HERE.) Speaker Quinn Will Decide if Rezoning Preserves or Undermines Character of Hudson Square and the South Village Tenement at 169 Sullivan Street in…
Read More…for new development in many parts of Midtown Manhattan and, GVSHP feels, too great for Hudson Square. Traffic in Hudson Square is frequently bumper-to-bumper and grinds to a halt; allowing…
Read MoreThe massive Trump SoHo condo-hotel in Hudson Square; Come tonight to learn how to help prevent out-of-scale development like this. Trinity Real Estate, the major property owner in the Hudson…
Read MoreCRITICAL PUBLIC HEARING TOMORROW ON PROPOSED HUDSON SQUARE REZONING AND IMPACT ON THE SOUTH VILLAGE Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 28th, the City Planning Commission will hold its SOLE public hearing…
Read More…radical 20th-century innovators. The most dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker will have trouble telling you if it’s in Greenwich Village, SoHo, or Hudson Square. The tiny Charlton-King-VanDam neighborhood is, as its name…
Read More…vote on the Hudson Square rezoning, but they postponed the vote until next Wednesday, March 13th at 9 am so they could hammer out final details with the mayor’s office….
Read MoreYesterday, in anticipation of the vote on the Hudson Square rezoning, we took a look at some of the sites currently threatened or recently lost in the South Village. Today,…
Read MoreThis Sunday, March 13th, is the three year anniversary of the NYC Council Land Use Committee vote to approve the proposed Hudson Square Rezoning. This vote was a significant milestone…
Read More…Hudson Square but had traditionally been part of Greenwich Village. 110 King Street, ca 1939. Source: Museum of the City of New York. Federal Art Project The Federal Art Project…
Read MoreWith the important vote on the Hudson Square rezoning by the City Council’s Zoning Subcommittee this Wednesday, we will find out if the City Council will approve or deny the…
Read More…Hudson Square for the first time. All sides agree this will result in a good deal of new development in Hudson Square that would not otherwise take place. But under…
Read MoreWe hope you can join us for tonight’s critical public hearing on the proposed Hudson Square rezoning at 6:30 pm at the Fire Museum, 278 Spring Street (Varick/Hudson Streets), 3rd…
Read More…is the result of a campaign calling upon the City Council not to approve the recent Hudson Square rezoning — which would increase development pressure upon the neighboring South Village…
Read MoreWe hope you can join us for an incredibly important community board public hearing tonight that will affect the future of both the South Village and Hudson Square. It’s at…
Read More…residential property. This would make it illegal under the zoning, because when built, the zoning in Hudson Square did not allow any sort of residential development. We (and many others)…
Read More…area, starting in 1807 with completion of St. John’s Chapel next to Hudson Square, which was also known as St. John’s Park, bounded by Varick, Beach, Hudson, and Laight Streets….
Read More…right now with seemingly endless new buildings going up, is the city’s most expensive neighborhood. High on the list as well: Hudson Square, rezoned eight years ago to allow huge…
Read MoreWith the City’s Council’s vote this week on the Hudson Square rezoning, which will decide if the South Village is saved or its destruction accelerated, we thought we’d remind everyone…
Read More…Minetta Lane are named for this waterway; Minetta Street more or less follows its path. It also ran through present-day Hudson Square, which you can learn more about here. When…
Read More…garden near 487 Hudson Street) Hudson Square Little Free Library (Located in Freeman Plaza West) Corlears Hook Park Little Free Library (Located in the park near 479 Cherry Street) Seward…
Read More…district to roughly split between the 3rd and 1st Council Districts. A few low-population blocks at the southern end of Hudson Square/SoHo would also move from the 3rd to the…
Read MoreAt their March 27th public meeting, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated four individual landmarks located in Hudson Square. These new landmarks – 32 Dominick Street, 34 Dominick Street, 36 Dominick…
Read More…very clear that the city was not going to approve the district, but we used the leverage we had with the Hudson Square rezoning and demanded that the City Council…
Read More…Hudson Square rezoning, which will increase the already considerable development pressure upon the South Village (as illustrated by this application for 9 Minetta Street). The proposed South Village Historic District,…
Read MoreGhosts Are lurking about the Village, that’s for sure! It’s up to you to decide if you want to explore the haunted places… OR NOT! You choose… We have previously…
Read More…Places in 2007. But the South Village faced increasingly problematic encroachment, as voracious developers, NYU, and rezoning proposals for nearby Hudson Square threatened to further erode its historic character –…
Read More…leveraging the approval process for the nearby Hudson Square Rezoning. The South Village Historic District was the largest expansion of historic district protections in Greenwich Village since 1969. GVSHP is…
Read More…move forward with this landmark action by leveraging the approval process for the nearby Hudson Square Rezoning. The South Village Historic District was the largest expansion of historic district protections…
Read MoreThe South Village is an area rich in architectural, cultural, and historic resources, distinct from (though connected to) those of its surrounding historic communities, such as Greenwich Village, Soho, and…
Read More…uncovered during continued renovations. Remains were also unearthed during excavation for the Hudson Square Trump Residential Hotel in 2006, a project which GVSHP opposed due to numerous zoning issues. The…
Read More…almost the entirety of the neighborhoods GVSHP covers — the Village, East Village, Hudson Square, NoHo, and the Meatpacking District — are a broad swath of the lightest pink, which…
Read More…York City is Hudson Square’s Ear Inn, at 326 Spring Street. The bar opened in 1817. When built, the Ear Inn (which is also an individual New York City landmark)…
Read More…Street, the Butterick Building remains today a visual gateway to the Hudson Square neighborhood. Recently, when the City proposed to rezone Hudson Square to encourage new high-rise residential development, GVSHP…
Read More…been used over and over again by the Department of City Planning in environmental reviews, recently for a proposed new residential development at 180 Sixth Avenue and for the proposed Hudson Square rezoning….
Read More…‘calendar’ (begin the official process of considering for landmark designation) two more Federal houses at 486 and 488 Greenwich Street, just north of Canal Street, in Hudson Square. These houses…
Read More…72 square tiles printed in four basic colors: blue, pink, yellow and black. Teaching artists at the Children’s Museum of the Arts (CMA) in Hudson Square took the tiles and…
Read More…Corporation, HERE purchased its 9,000-square-foot longtime home at 145 Sixth Avenue, in the Hudson Square neighborhood. The facility boasts of two performance spaces, a lounge, and gallery. In response to…
Read More…East 4th Street (a new building proposed next to the Merchants House Museum) and 310 Spring Street (an individual landmark in the Hudson Square area), both of which have been…
Read More…Its 160th Birthday (Racked) Cherry Lane Theater Struggles to Eke Out Existence (WNYC) Blind Tiger Launches New Menu, Sets Sights on Expansion (Eater) New Building Slated for Hudson Square (Crain’s)…
Read More…the LPC has only committed to “survey” before the end of the year. This area faces tremendous development pressure, especially since the recent approval of the Hudson Square Rezoning. …
Read More…when the Preservation League of NY State named the South Village to its Seven to Save List, as well as the Hudson Square Rezoning milestone that led to the landmarking…
Read More…the surrounding section of the South Village south of Houston Street. Click HERE to read more about the site. You can find more information on the proposed Hudson Square rezoning…
Read More…(it was really Hudson Square, but let’s not confuse things with the facts). While the outdated zoning for the area allowed 45-story high-rises, it prohibited residential uses, and GVSHP led…
Read More…and here).] Contextual zoning also applies to areas around 14th Street, most of Hudson Square and Chelsea, and throughout neighborhoods like the Upper East and West Sides and Tribeca. But…
Read More…rigorously as possible. The massive condo-hotel in Hudson Square. The Restrictive Covenant does allow for the city to demand more from the former Trump SoHo. According to the covenant, the…
Read More…— What’s In? Decades of Limbo To Finally End for South Village “Almost-Landmarks”? South Village At Stake in Hudson Square Vote Tomorrow, Pt. II This Columbus Day, Save the South…
Read More…Village Historic District — as the statistics show, it would not exactly be an outrageous case of favoritism. The City Council’s hearing on the proposed Hudson Square rezoning — which…
Read More…the Far West Village, Hudson Square, NoHo, and the South Village. Looking at these pages, which neighborhood has the most listings? (And while we’re mentioning interesting visuals on our website, you…
Read More…here to ensure compliance with the law continue to be enforced as rigorously as possible. The massive condo-hotel in Hudson Square. This year the State of New York took some…
Read More…houses (Curbed) Hudson Square group helps immigrant youth gain independence (DNAinfo) Does James Beard’s ghost haunt the James Beard house? (Eater) Village Halloween Parade route offers thrills and chills! (DNAinfo)…
Read More…can now be yours for $14,000/month (Curbed) New Yorkers celebrate end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” at Stonewall (NY1) Publisher, Pearson PLC, moving to Hudson Square with $13.5 million in…
Read MoreWest Village finial In more Friends-cast news: Rumored Jennifer Aniston Penthouse sells to someone else (Curbed) Hudson Square has a new public art project (DNAinfo) Asian locavore restaurant Wong to…
Read More…was not able to survive the onslaught of development pressure which washed over the South Village in conjunction with the rezoning of the adjacent Hudson Square district to allow high-rise…
Read More…as the NYC Department of City Planning’s Community Board #2 (Greenwich Village, SoHo, NoHo, Little Italy, Hudson Square) liaison beginning in the 1960s, and was intimately involved in the landmark…
Read More…with the law continue to be enforced as rigorously as possible. The massive condo-hotel in Hudson Square. Report filed April 23, 2020, when it is generally due by March 31…
Read MoreSeven years ago today, on July 24th, 2007, two very lucky federal rowhouse survivors on Greenwich Street were landmarked, thus insuring their nearly 200 year run of good luck would…
Read More…the South Village faces even more potential develpoment pressure from nearby rezonings from the NYU 2031 Plan and the Hudson Square Rezoning. Just this year, the South Village was recognized by the…
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