…development of a much wider range of lucrative uses — from luxury condos and big box chain stores to boutique offices and NYU dorms. SoHo/NoHo Rally 5/10/21 What follows is…
Read More…wider range of lucrative uses — from luxury condos and big box chain stores to boutique offices and NYU dorms. SoHo/NoHo Rally 7/2/21 Photo by Renée Monrose What follows is…
Read More…wider range of lucrative uses — from luxury condos and big box chain stores to boutique offices and NYU dorms. SoHo/NoHo Rally 5/10/21 What follows is a representative story provided…
Read More…History of SoHo from the 1700’s through the Present,” by Yukie Ohta The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980 by Aaron Shkuda “SoHo Zoning Guidebook,” SoHo Broadway Initiative…
Read More…of widespread contentions that it violated zoning rules. The 311 foot tall SoHo Mondrian Hotel at 9 Crosby Street. Comptroller Stringer wants to upzone SoHo and NoHo to allow even…
Read MoreThe newly-released study by Village Preservation shows that the City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan, which includes part of Chinatown, will make the area richer, whiter, and more expensive to live in than…
Read More…City. Let us not be duped. There is nothing progressive about the MIH program or about the planning proposals that have metastasized around it, such as the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown plan. Today,…
Read MoreFrom the January 31, 2013 issue of The Villager. Noho and Soho’s firewall against N.Y.U. is at risk http://www.thevillager.com/?p=10030 By Andrew Berman, Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation…
Read More…2 hearing on the SoHo NoHo report, via the Village Sun https://thevillagesun.com/divisions-over-envision-soho-noho-rezoning-at-meeting But here’s the catch — the upzoning that’s attached means that getting that small amount of affordable housing…
Read MoreThe newly-released study by Village Preservation shows that the City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan, which includes part of Chinatown, will make the area richer, whiter, and more expensive to live in than…
Read More…rezone the neighborhoods of SoHo and NoHo, saying it would “advance the City’s goals of fair housing and equitable growth” and “create a more inclusive…SoHo and NoHo” as part of…
Read More…for SoHo and NoHo. CLICK HERE to Tell Elected Officials You Oppose the Mayor’s Upzoning Plan for SoHo/NoHo and Support the Community Plan Instead There are two critical upcoming hearings…
Read MoreDe Blasio’s Just-Released SoHo/NoHo Plan Would Change the Face of Historic Neighborhoods With Massive Upzoning Plan Has Devastating Implications for Neighborhoods and Historic Districts Across the City Late yesterday the…
Read More…details. Map showing outlines of city’s SoHo/NoHo plan; this appeared on the city’s website on Wednesday and has since been removed. One of the justifications for the proposed upzoning is…
Read MoreDe Blasio wants to fool the public into believing that his plan for rezoning SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown will diversify incomes and increase affordability in those neighborhoods. The opposite will in fact be…
Read More…public – the first step before a months-long public hearing and approval process. This map originally appeared on the city’s website announcing the planned SoHo/NoHo rezoning, and then mysteriously disappeared…
Read More…City Planning — Population Division, American Community Survey, 2015-2019, Manhattan Block Groups 45001, 47002, 490001, and 55021 were aggregated to approximate the SoHo/NoHo Study Area (emphasis added). The five census…
Read More…defeated. Currently, Village Preservation is leading a campaign to address the threat posed by a SoHo/NoHo upzoning plan promoted by the Mayor under the false pretext of affordable housing creation…
Read More…neighborhoods where the real estate market could cross-subsidize affordable housing and thought it found an answer in SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown. The possible application of MIH to SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown, however, has not resolved the…
Read MoreVillage Preservation’s Juan Rivero leading the August 23 press conference with past and future SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown City Councilmembers urging rejection of the plan. Virtual and In-Person Testimony Allowed Borough President Holds…
Read More…using for office space a site that, upon its rezoning, was envisioned by the City itself as residential. Now, it could be that, in the instance of SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown, the City…
Read MoreJena Hinton of Village Preservation testifying at the City Council hearing. Yesterday’s City Council hearing on the Mayor’s proposed SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning/Displacement plan lasted about seven hours, with opponents — many…
Read More…on the SoHo/NoHo rezoning plan. Christopher Marte, the winner of the Democratic nomination to represent District 1 (SoHo, NoHo, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan) in the City Council has been a leading…
Read MoreYesterday the City Council’s Zoning Subcommittee and Land Use Committee each voted to approve a revised SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement Plan, with changes negotiated by Councilmembers Margaret Chin and Carlina…
Read MoreThe City has dangled the promise of affordable housing in SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown before the public to give a progressive veneer to the massive handout that De Blasio’s upzoning plan makes available…
Read More…with fellow groups to amend or remove more of the most onerous and misguided provisions of the recently approved SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement plan. Read coverage in The Village Sun. …
Read More…do is a very bad plan. And by these measures, Mayor de Blasio’s SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown upzoning is a very bad plan indeed. Over the past several months, we have shown: -how…
Read More…out-of-scale development, and without big box chain stores forcing out local businesses. Urge City Councilmembers to vote NO on the plan. More information can be found at: www.villagepreservation.org/soho-noho-facts and https://www.villagepreservation.org/campaign/upzoning-soho-and-noho…
Read More…City Council Telling Them “Window Dressing” Changes Aren’t Acceptable — VOTE NO on the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Plan HERE For more resources on and information about the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning plan, CLICK HERE….
Read MoreThe greed orgy that is de Blasio’s SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown rezoning is currently before the Land Use Committee of the City Council, which held a public hearing on the matter on November…
Read More…of the Mayor’s SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement plan. As we previously reported, after months of fighting, the plan was modified to eliminate or lessen some of the worst elements, with…
Read MoreWe have received a piece of art that truly captures the essence of the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown rezoning and breathes new life into the age-old maxim: never pick a fight with someone…
Read MoreIntro 2443A was passed by the City Council late last year along with the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement Plan, with almost no discussion or debate. The bill imposes draconian penalties…
Read MoreWe had a huge and united turnout on Wednesday at our press conference opposing the Mayor’s outrageous SoHo/NoHo rezoning plan and the Community Board 2 public hearing that followed. We were…
Read More…for testimony (verbal or written) can be found here. More information on the hearing is HERE. More information on the rezoning proposal can be found here and here. The SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown…
Read MoreThe City Council’s Zoning Subcommittee will vote on the Mayor’s SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning+Displacement plan as early as this Thursday, setting the stage for the final decision by the full City Council….
Read MoreThe vote on Mayor de Blasio’s SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning+Displacement plan, originally expected this Thursday, has now been pushed back to next week, with the first vote in the Council’s Zoning Subcommittee…
Read MoreAfter several delays, the City Council’s Zoning Subcommittee and Land Use Committee appear poised to vote on the massive SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement plan today starting at approximately 11:30 am….
Read MoreThe full City Council appears poised to vote on the revised SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning+Displacement Plan as soon as this Wednesday (full Council is currently scheduled to meet at 1:30 pm). It’s…
Read More…Trump Soho to the City of New York, thanks to GVSHP shining a spotlight. That same year the 454-foot-tall eyesore Trump Soho Condo-Hotel went into foreclosure and was sold. The…
Read MoreHousing and Tenant Activists Slam Mayor’s Plan As Sham, Giveaway To Developers A new study released by Village Preservation today shows that Mayor de Blasio’s SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan is likely…
Read MorePhoto: David Bland/City Limits On Monday night, Community Board 2 voted nearly unanimously to roundly reject Mayor de Blasio’s proposed SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan. The thoughtful and highly detailed 11-page resolution…
Read MoreManhattan Borough President Gale Brewer will hold her virtual public hearing on the Mayor’s SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan starting at 6 pm on Monday, August 23 — register here. Testimony is…
Read MoreThe greed orgy that is de Blasio’s SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown rezoning is currently before the Land Use Committee of the City Council, which held a public hearing on the matter on November…
Read MorePlan would likely only create 1/5 of projected Affordable Housing, push out Asian American and lower income residents would likely destroy more Affordable Housing than it creates….
Read More…the East Village, or NoHo: click here to nominate your favorite. Want to help support small businesses? Share this post with friends. Every nook and corner of NoHo offers eclectic…
Read More…Trump SoHo’s poor performance, no doubt one is the enforcement of zoning regulations restricting the use of the “condo-hotel,” which GVSHP has fought relentlessly to ensure was done. The Trump SoHo should…
Read More…into use in order to distinguish it from SoHo, the adjacent neighborhood to its south. Previously, NoHo, SoHo, and the eastern part of Tribeca were known collectively as the “warehouse…
Read MoreTrump SoHo under construction Last November, we showed how — to our amazement — the City’s own “Community Profile” of Community Board #2 categorized the Trump SoHo “Condo-Hotel” as a…
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…the designation of the NoHo Historic District in 1999, GVSHP was a staunch advocate for extending landmark protections to the remainder of the NoHo neighborhood, as were many long-time neighborhood residents. …
Read More…and abuts the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, which was designated on August 14, 1973. But the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, our historic neighbor to the south and east, is nevertheless a…
Read MoreEdward LaGrassa was an architecture student in 1969 when he photographed hundreds of cast iron buildings and structures, largely in SoHo and Tribeca, but also in Harlem and Upper Manhattan….
Read MoreSoHo architecture photo source: nypap.org Here at Off the Grid we are primarily concerned with Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, but tomorrow we will be happy to help…
Read More…series, focusing on NoHo. Be sure to read our other posts about the West Village LGBT historic sites here, those in the East Village here, and the South Village here. NoHo…
Read MoreNoHo East Historic District map. Source: Landmarks Preservation Commission. Today, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will be holding a public hearing on the proposed South Village Historic District. Yesterday, the NoHo…
Read More…SoHo Condo-Hotel.” GVSHP and many neighbors and community groups opposed having this 46-story monument to ego and self-promotion in their midst, but unfortunately the zoning for this area — Hudson…
Read More…As you can see in the above historic district map, the extension connects the NoHo Historic District and the NoHo East Historic District. For the most part, the 56 buildings…
Read MoreEdward LaGrassa was an architecture student in 1969 when he took these photos of cast iron buildings and structures, largely in SoHo and Tribeca, as well as in Harlem and…
Read More…NoHo Historic District and next to the Bayard Condict Building, and so today we will look into the history and architecture of this structure beyond the description in the designation…
Read More…found in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and Noho. The main antecedents of the NYPL which formed the foundation of today’s system— the Astor Library, the Lenox Library, and the…
Read More…course of this month we’re focusing on four areas of our neighborhood — the West Village, East Village, NoHo, and South Village — to highlight important locations, either long gone…
Read MoreDidn’t make it to a recent GVSHP program? Visit our website to see photos, videos, and sometimes even presentation materials from recent programs. Photos and video from Saturday’s Basquiat and NoHo panel are now online! This past…
Read More…29, 1999. It was expanded to include the NoHo East Historic District and NoHo Historic District Extension on June 24, 2003 and May 13, 2008, respectively. 14th Street and Ninth…
Read More…vintage resellers within the Greenwich Village, East Village, and NoHo: The East Village: The East Village has more vintage, secondhand, and thrift stores than anywhere in New York City (maybe…
Read MoreMoving westward across the Village through our Cemeteries of the Village series, today we explore one former cemetery site in NoHo and one just north of the NoHo corridor, both…
Read More…found in the East Village and NoHo, starting with a theater group in the early 19th century. African Grove Theater The African Grove Theater was the first known black theater…
Read More…#2 liaison beginning in the 1960s, and was intimately involved in the landmark designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District as well as pioneering zoning and landmark designations for SoHo….
Read More…appear to own condo units in the building: NY Trump Soho 2102 Corp. and NY Trump Soho 2306 Corp.” Excerpt from Occupancy Report with Unit 2306 appearing. Although the 2017…
Read More…on Canal Street. Canal Jeans, as it was commonly called, eventually moved to 504 Broadway, a few blocks down Broadway in SoHo from UNIQUE, and served as an adjunct hip…
Read More726-730 Broadway (aka 418-426 Lafayette Street) is a through-block loft building located in the NoHo Historic District. Not much to look at, what used to be here is infinitely more…
Read More…With your input, we’re going to select our Top 25 list. Below are seventy of the most impactful women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, who made their…
Read More…world. With your input, we’re going to select the twenty-five most impactful. Below are seventy extraordinary women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, who made their marks in…
Read More…The building was designated a New York City landmark as part of the NoHo Historic District on June 29, 1999. Kmart at 770 Broadway. Photograph courtesy EV Grieve. In 1996,…
Read MoreTheir neighbor to the west, Greenwich Village, may be more well known as a nexus for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, but the East Village and Noho are chock…
Read More…shaped LBGT culture in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo over the last century and a quarter — some clandestine and illicit, others shiny and open. The Saint, 105…
Read MoreImage: the Bowlmor site. The public meeting on potential landmarking and rezoning proposals for the University Place and Broadway corridors will take place Thursday, Dec. 4 from 6 to 7:30…
Read MoreThe Trump SoHo was approved for construction by the City on May 8, 2007, over the objections of dozens of elected officials and a broad coalition of community and business…
Read MoreFrom the Center for An Urban Future Report Greenwich Village has long enjoyed a reputation as a mecca for artists. The same can be said of nearby NoHo and SoHo,…
Read More…high housing prices and say that extensive landmarking or restrictive zoning are to blame (which they then use to justify proposals like the current SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown upzoning plan). But Hudson Square,…
Read More…have reminded us of some of his shenanigans in our neighborhood over the years, largely in connection to the Trump SoHo ‘Condo-Hotel,’ and just how much the City allowed him…
Read More…Lafayette Street. Located in both the NoHo Historic District and the NoHo Historic District Extension, Lafayette Street was built in order to accommodate New York’s ever expanding transportation demands. The…
Read More…buildings have been a cause of increasing complaints in Manhattan, with many tenants claiming owners place illegal hotels in their buildings to make it difficult or impossible for tenants to…
Read MoreWorking in historic preservation you sometimes find yourself dealing with things you never expect. The Trump SoHo ‘Condo-Hotel,’ built on the site of an exhumed 19th century abolitionist church graveyard….
Read More…and surrounding neighborhoods invigorated his art. With the formation of Cinque Gallery in NoHo and later in SoHo, Bearden nurtured the next generation of African American artists immersed in the…
Read More…an air rights transfer for an office tower at 3 St. Mark’s Place Leading opposition to the SoHo NoHo upzoning plan – formulating a community alternative neighborhood plan supported by…
Read More…had been completed, it would have destroyed much of lower Manhattan, including blocks of what is today SoHo and Little Italy. This was hardly the end of the damage that…
Read More…decision was her vote granting NYU unprecedented allowances to overdevelop wide swaths of the Village. More recently, Chin supported the illogical rezoning of SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown. Our 2011 Halloween contest entry. We…
Read More…as with the SoHo/NoHo Upzoning, the demolition of 14-16 5th Avenue, 116-120 East 11th Street, and more, we have seen affordable housing put at risk, or worse, demolished, to build…
Read More…Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Current GVSHP members will vote on a slate of new and renewing trustees. The Village Awards were established 23 years ago to honor the…
Read More…Community Board public hearing on the SoHo/NoHo rezoning plan in June. Educate children about the value of historic preservation, including with our new African American history curriculum Provide an ever-expanding…
Read More…tenants from the time of its opening, and by 1880, its residents included Irish, German, and Chinese immigrants. Between 1900 and 1920, industrial tenants displaced its residents. The 1905 New…
Read MoreOn December 6, 2006, the Trump SoHo ‘Condo-Hotel’ was caught advertising its planned units to prospective buyers as a “Primary Residence” or “Secondary Residence.” GVSHP found the advertisements and immediately…
Read More…a future Building Broadway feature! You can also catch the buildings of SoHo in the background; they now form part of the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. See how this stretch…
Read More…from view. Hand-painted signs are an advertising tool still used in certain locations today, especially in historically manufacturing areas such as Gansevoort, NoHo, and SoHo; perhaps those signs, too, will…
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