…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…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 More…Blasio’s upzoning, and urges you to join him and numerous community groups in doing so too. Find out more about the SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan here, and urge city officials to oppose…
Read More…urges you to join him and numerous community groups in doing so too. Find out more about the SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan here, and urge city officials to oppose it here….
Read More…Village Preservation has been telling their stories as part of our series “Tenants In the Crosshairs: The SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan Victims The Mayor Wants You To Forget.” These stories are…
Read More…Sharon and Victor strongly opposes de Blasio’s upzoning, and urges you to join him and numerous community groups in doing so too. Find out more about the SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan here,…
Read MoreNew York City Comptroller Scott Stringer NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer has recently weighed into the debate about upzoning SoHo andNoHo, expressing his unequivocal supportfor a change which would allow larger development…
Read MoreNew York City Comptroller Scott Stringer NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer has recently weighed into the debate about upzoning SoHo and NoHo, expressing his unequivocal support for a change which would allow larger development…
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 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…what they would oppose. TO HELP: Tell City Officials You Oppose Upzoning SoHo and NoHo, As Well As Allowing Mega-Retail in the Neighborhood – CLICK HERE For more information, see gvshp.org/SoHoNoHo. …
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 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…of buildings in the proposed SoHo/NoHo rezoning with rent regulated housing and lower income residents which would be similarly endangered by the city’s proposed upzoning. The areas where the city’s…
Read More…when you speak you send a clear message: SoHo and NoHo support affordable housing, but they absolutely oppose upzonings and allowances for expanding big-box chain retail – click on image…
Read More…backgrounds, so when you speak you send a clear message: SoHo and NoHo support affordable housing, but they absolutely oppose upzonings and allowances for expanding big-box chain retail – click…
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 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 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 More…Five-Hour Public Hearing, Withholds Recommendation Opponents Including Incoming and Past Councilmembers Urge Rejection The City Planning Commission will hold its sole public hearing on the massive SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan this…
Read More…Five-Hour Public Hearing, Withholds Recommendation Opponents Including Incoming and Past Councilmembers Urge Rejection The City Planning Commission will hold its sole public hearing on the massive SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan this…
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…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…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…more than 60 new buildings constructed in the two small areas in recent years. Mayoral candidates and upzoning advocates have made clear that upzoning SoHo and NoHo is the starting…
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 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…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 More…behind it, saying it was unworthy of consideration and that those behind it didn’t actually care about affordable housing (how’s that for irony?). Find out more about the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning…
Read More…the City’s plan for SoHo, NoHo, and Chinatown would really do. Tell City Officials and Candidates to REJECT the Mayor’s Upzoning Plan and Support the Community Alternative – CLICK HERE…
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…
Read MoreRead the Report Here The City’s proposed SoHo NoHo Upzoning, set to begin the public review and approval process this spring, would allow new development in these neighborhoods and parts…
Read More…taller than by far the majority of their neighbors. To Help: Tell City Officials That Upzoning is Not Acceptable in SoHo and NoHo, and Not Necessary To Provide Affordable Housing…
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 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 MoreOn Monday we also staged a well-attended rally and press conference opposing the Mayor’s upzoning plan for SoHo, NoHo, and Chinatown co-sponsored by TenantsPAC, the Chinatown Working Group, and a vast…
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…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…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 MorePhotos by Megan (Markham) Bucknall/Unsplash (left) and Gerardo Romo/NYC Council (right) The City Council’s sole public hearing on the massive and disastrous proposed upzoning of SoHo, NoHo, and parts of…
Read MorePhotos by Megan (Markham) Bucknall/Unsplash (left) and Gerardo Romo/NYC Council (right) The City Council’s sole public hearing on the massive and disastrous proposed upzoning of SoHo, NoHo, and parts of…
Read MorePhotos by Megan (Markham) Bucknall/Unsplash (left) and Gerardo Romo/NYC Council (right) The City Council’s sole public hearing on the massive and disastrous proposed upzoning of SoHo, NoHo, and parts of…
Read MorePhoto, right: David Brand/City Limits Yesterday, NYU filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the provision in the recently enacted SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement plan that prohibits university facility expansion in…
Read MoreJoin Village Preservation, the Chinatown Working Group, TenantsPAC, and SoHo, NoHo, East Village, and Lower East Side community groups for a rally and press conference this coming Monday, May 10,…
Read More…Lower Manhattan Loft Tenants, 318 Restaurant Workers Union and… RSVP HERE In the fall of 2020, the de Blasio administration announced its plans to rezone the neighborhoods of SoHo and NoHo, saying…
Read MoreMayor de Blasio is moving towardsan early May certification for his massive SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan, which promises to bring huge oversized commercial and condo developments and vertical enlargements and giant…
Read More…Rivera, and Corey Johnson will likely largely decide its fate. TO HELP: Tell City Officials That Insignificant Changes to the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Rezoning Plan DON’T Make It Acceptable — CLICK HERE…
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 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….
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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…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 More…the Tenants Political Action Committee (TenantsPAC), said: “The sheer dishonesty of the de Blasio administration in disguising the real thrust of the mayor’s SoHo/NoHo upzoning is beyond shocking. Clearly this plan,…
Read More…The City’s proposal and its false promises, however, will not accomplish those goals. Find out more about the SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan here, and urge city officials to oppose it here….
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 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 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 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 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 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 More…vague, with few specifics about how many of the proposed changes would be achieved. But some clearly indicated that upzoning of certain areas of SoHo and NoHo were a possibility,…
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…NoHo neighborhoods,” it is important that the public attend, especially SoHo and NoHo residents, to speak up for preserving the special character of these neighborhoods. A second public meeting…
Read More…and NoHo neighborhoods,” it is important that the public attend, especially SoHo and NoHo residents, to speak up for preserving the special character of these neighborhoods. A second public…
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…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…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 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 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…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 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 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…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…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…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 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 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 MoreEarlier this week, the City Planning Commission (controlled by Mayor de Blasio) met to review the Mayor’s SoHo/NoHo upzoning plan. They acknowledged the significant pushback against the plan, particularly its…
Read MorePlease attend an important Community Board 2 Land Use Committee hearing and discussion of the priorities and recommendations from the recently- released Envision SoHo/NoHo: A Summary of Findings and Recommendations report. Representatives…
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 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…majority of their neighbors. HOW TO HELP: Send A Letter to City Officials Saying That Affordable Housing is Welcome in NoHo and SoHo But Upzoning is Not – Click Here…
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…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 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 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 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 MoreYesterday the City Planning Commission approved the proposed SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning Plan, doubling down on their lies about what the plan will accomplish — new affordable housing, retail vitality, appropriately scaled…
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 More…Hold that date on your calendar and we’ll let you know as soon as that date has been confirmed. Urge City Officials To Reject The Developer-Giveaway SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Plan —…
Read More…to the City’s report, especially re: a potential upzoning and larger retail allowances. Changes to retail rules in SoHo and NoHo could lead to more mega-stores like this multi-level big…
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