…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 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…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…the project briefly, the City still allowed Trump to move ahead. Then the long and sordid criminal records and backgrounds of several of Trump’s business partners in the Trump SoHo were revealed,…
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…City’s 2010 Community Profile of Community Board #2, Manhattan, shows land uses for every lot in the neighborhood as defined by the City. The Trump SoHo (circled), covers the western…
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…and businesses of Soho/Noho as well as the surrounding communities of Chinatown and the Lower Eastside. The Mayor’s Soho/Noho Rezoning Plan must be voted NO.” Zishun Ning of the Chinatown…
Read More…such issues — as Borough President he supported gutting neighborhood protections for NYU’s massive 2031 Expansion Plan, destroying the historic Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments, and allowing the Trump SoHo to be built, in spite…
Read More…such issues — as Borough President he supported gutting neighborhood protections for NYU’s massive 2031 Expansion Plan, destroying the historic Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments, and allowing the Trump SoHo to be built, in spite…
Read MoreTrump SoHo “Condo-Hotel” Village Preservation’s work opposing Donald Trump’s massive “Condo-Hotel” project on Spring and Varick Streets in SoHo. Read Blog Posts About Trump SoHo “Condo-Hotel”…
Read More…ties to de Blasio poised to profit from Soho rezoning,” NY Post Tenants in the Crosshairs —Real Stories of the Victims of the Proposed SoHo/NoHo Rezoning, Village Preservation The SoHo/NoHo…
Read MoreLate yesterday, Village Preservation, Councilmember Christopher Marte, the Coalition for Fairness in SoHo and NoHo, and allied community groups filed a “motion to intervene” in the lawsuit filed by NYU…
Read More…criminal records and backgrounds of several of Trump’s business partners in the Trump SoHo were revealed, and yet the City allowed the project to continue. The fatal accident. Then a…
Read More…S. Jhoanna Robledo. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2006/12/trumps_soho_plan_foiled_by_int.html?gtm=bottom Trump Lies and Violates Zoning: GVSHP became aware that day that the website for Donald Trump’s planned 45-story condo-hotel at Spring and Varick Streets had been…
Read More…rent made the area accessible to creative minds. Over time, SoHo transformed into a vibrant artist community, and its distinct architectural charm began to garner attention. But SoHo faced the…
Read More…the Thursday March 25th 6:30 pm event. RSVP here: https://www.thinkchinatown.org/happenings/sohorezoning In the fall of 2020, the de Blasio administration announced its plans to rezone the neighborhoods of SoHo and NoHo,…
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 More…of SoHo, with the support of the SoHo Artists Association, that led to the rezoning that enabled artists to remain in the neighborhood. “It was a slow process in which…
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…has expressed support for the Mayor’s plan for upzoning SoHo and NoHo. Eric Adams has expressed support for the Mayor’s plan for upzoning SoHo and NoHo. Shaun Donovan “expressed support…
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…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 MoreIn a surprise move this Wednesday, Mayor de Blasio announced that he intends to propose a rezoning of SoHo and NoHo that would include upzoning certain areas to substantially increase the size…
Read More…announced that he intends to propose a rezoning of SoHo and NoHo that would include upzoning certain areas to substantially increase the size of allowable new development. He would also change…
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 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…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 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 MoreArea residents at recent SoHo/NoHo meeting. (Photo by Joaquin Cotler/AMNY). Recent meetings about potential changes to zoning rules governing SoHo and NoHo have drawn standing-room-only crowds. While by far the majority of those…
Read MoreUpzoning SoHo and NoHo In early 2021, the city released its proposal to rezone SoHo and NoHo, claiming the plan will make these neighborhoods more diverse and affordable, as well as…
Read More…Affordable Housing in the SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Mapping the Disproportionate Impact of the SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan on Asian Americans SoHo/NoHo Upzoning: The City’s Willful Disguising of Demographic Data Utterly Out of…
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…but saved, the last time that SoHo and Tribeca faced a threat of widespread demolition. At the time, historic cast-iron buildings were being razed to make way for the Washington…
Read MoreVillage Preservation (GVSHP) has joined forces with the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, the Broadway Residents Coalition, Lower Manhattan Loft Tenants, the NoHo Neighborhood Association, and the SoHo Alliance to form…
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 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 More…would like us to profile your story, please contact us: info@gvshp.org Within the sometimes glossy exteriors of SoHo and NoHo streetscapes lie hundreds of units of affordable, rent regulated housing,…
Read MoreLee Morgan, prodigy jazz trumpeter, born on July 10, 1938, in Philadelphia. One of his sisters bought him his first trumpet, and by the time he was a teenager he…
Read More…have a similar story that you would like us to profile, please contact us: info@gvshp.org Within the sometimes glossy exteriors of SoHo and NoHo streetscapes lie hundreds of units of…
Read MoreCritics of de Blasio’s atrocious upzoning plan for SoHo, NoHo, and Chinatown–including yours truly— have raised a wide range of serious concerns about its possible and likely consequences. To 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 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…would like us to profile your story, please contact us: info@gvshp.org Within the sometimes glossy exteriors of SoHo and NoHo streetscapes lie hundreds of units of affordable, rent regulated housing,…
Read MoreJoin us next Monday, March 15 at 6pm for a virtual Town Hall and Teach-In on Mayor de Blasio’s massive SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Plan and our recent study showing its true…
Read MoreLast week, the City ‘certified,‘ or issued its final proposal for the massive upzoning of SoHo, NoHo, and parts of Chinatown. The voluminous documents contained numerous inaccuracies, falsehoods, and mischaracterizations,…
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 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…
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Edward 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…
Posted April 12, 2021
Read MoreThe first public meeting on the city’s proposal to rezone and upzone SoHo and NoHo will be next Monday from 6-8 pm. Register to participate by Zoom and speak/ask questions…
Read MoreThe first public meeting on the city’s proposal to rezone and upzone SoHo and NoHo will be next Monday from 6-8 pm. Register to participate by Zoom and speak/ask questions…
Read MoreThe NoHo and SoHo neighborhoods, showing the area covered by their unique M1-5A and B zoning. Borough President Gale Brewer, the Mayor’s Department of City Planning, and City Councilmember…
Read MoreThe NoHo and SoHo neighborhoods, showing the area covered by their unique M1-5A and B zoning. Borough President Gale Brewer, the Mayor’s Department of City Planning, and City Councilmember Margaret…
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 More…and NoHo, released the following statement today in response to the certification, or formal release and beginning of the public approval process, for Mayor de Blasio’s SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan. “In…
Read More(l to r): Mayor Eric Adams; Councilmember Christopher Marte; SoHo We are thrilled to report that late Friday Mayor Adams vetoed a draconian, punitive measure we opposed introduced by (now…
Read More(l to r): Mayor Eric Adams; Councilmember Christopher Marte; SoHo We are thrilled to report that late Friday Mayor Adams vetoed a draconian, punitive measure we opposed introduced by (now…
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 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 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 MoreSome important updates for you regarding the City’s massive, precedent-setting SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Plan: City Attacks Community At last week’s final Community Board 2 public hearing on the plan, the Department…
Read More…Historic Preservation and the Preservation League of New York State. Finally, residents of SoHo and NoHo including our friends at the SoHo Alliance and Broadway Residents Committee have filed a…
Read MoreThe NoHo and SoHo neighborhoods, showing the area covered by their unique M1-5A and B zoning. The City, Borough President Gale Brewer, and City Councilmember Margaret Chin are holding another…
Read MoreAs Mayor de Blasio moves towards an early May certification for his massive SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan, which promises to bring huge oversized commercial and condo developments and vertical enlargements and…
Read More…Village Preservation shows that the city’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan will make these neighborhoods richer, whiter, and more expensive to live in than they are now, and likely create significantly less…
Read MoreVillage Preservation is continuing to work with allies including the SoHo Alliance and the Broadway Residents Coalition to push back on the campaign seeking to upzone SoHo and NoHo, led in part…
Read More…Sullivan St. (204 ft. tall), The James Hotel (258 ft. tall), and the Mondrian SoHo (311 ft. tall). Upzoning advocates want to allow buildings in SoHo and NoHo 250% larger…
Read MoreVillage Preservation continues to work with our allies with whom we have formed the Save SoHo-NoHo Coalition to protect these neighborhoods in the face of real estate and institutional interests advocating for disturbing changes to the…
Read More…SoHo-NoHo Coalition (including the SoHo Alliance, the NoHo Neighborhood Association, New York City Loft Tenants, the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, and the Broadway Residents Coalition) are fighting for the following principles…
Read MoreThe area of SoHo and NoHo where potential zoning changes are being examined. Village Preservation and our allies who have formed the Save SoHo-NoHo Coalition have enumerated the following principles which we…
Read MoreThe area of SoHo and NoHo where potential zoning changes are being examined. Last night the ‘Summary of Preliminary Recommendations’ by the consultant hired by the Mayor’s Department of City…
Read MoreThe City, Borough President Gale Brewer, and City Councilmember Margaret Chin recently finally released (several months late) their SoHo/NoHo Report following up on several months of “public engagement” about the future of these two…
Read More…the NoHo and SoHo neighborhoods. As we reported then, the report had no real surprises in it, as it largely echoed what had been publicly presented in June. Most of the…
Read MoreThe NoHo and SoHo neighborhoods, showing the area covered by their unique M1-5A and B zoning. Borough President Gale Brewer, the Department of City Planning, and City Councilmember Margaret Chin…
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 MoreStarting at 2pm on Thursday, December 3, the City will hold a public hearing on the draft scope of the environmental review for their proposed upzoning of SoHo and NoHo….
Read MoreLast spring, a judge threw out NYU’s challenge to a key provision in the SoHo/NoHo rezoning that we had fought hard to secure, which maintained a prohibition on most private…
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 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 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 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 MoreFollowing Community Board 2’s resounding and carefully considered rejection of the Mayor’s SoHo/NoHo Upzoning proposal, the application now goes to Borough President Gale Brewer to issue her recommendation. Before she…
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 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 MoreThe voluminous materials for the City’s certified SoHo/NoHo plan contained countless inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and outright lies, but no improvements or adjustments to address the many pointed criticisms the plan has…
Read More…proposal to upzone SoHo, NoHo, and parts of Chinatown. The final plan is barely changed from what the City released last fall, and contains the same allowances for massively oversized…
Read MoreIt’s crunch time in the fight against the City’s massive proposed developer giveaway being packaged as the SoHo/NoHo Upzoning. Here’s the latest: Certification Monday. The City is scheduled to certify…
Read MoreEarlier this month the City announced it would be formally filing its massive SoHo/NoHo Upzoning proposal in early May (coverage here and here). This comes on the heels of growing…
Read More…the Community Alternative Rezoning Plan for SoHo and NoHo HERE. CLICK HERE To Tell City Officials to Oppose the Mayor’s SoHo NoHo Upzoning Plan and to Support the Community Plan Instead…
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