…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…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…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…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…demanding that the provision in the SoHo/NoHo rezoning prohibiting it and other universities from expanding in the rezoning area be overturned. That provision was hard-fought-for by Village Preservation and our…
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 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…neighborhood character. The SoHo/NoHo Rezoning: Tenants in the Crosshairs Read our series of profiles about the low- and moderate-income rent-regulated tenants in the rezoning area that the de Blasio rezoning…
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…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…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 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…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…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 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…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…such regulations, but offered no 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…
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 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 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 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…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 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…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 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 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…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 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 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 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…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…said, “presents increasing challenges to the continued vitality of SoHo/NoHo.” An initial ‘Open House’ for the planning process saw an unanticipated crowd of hundreds of residents expressing skepticism about the process…
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 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 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 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 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 MoreThis afternoon, without explanation or comment, the City postponed its vote to certify the Mayor’s proposed SoHo/NoHo (and Chinatown) rezoning, with no new date given. The City had failed to…
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 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 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 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…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 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 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 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 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 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 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…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…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 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…
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…on the plan, and tonight meets to discuss it in its SoHo/NoHo Working Group. The Borough President will also issue an advisory opinion on the plan, and both the City…
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 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 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 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…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 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 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 MoreJoin us tonight for a critical teach-in and town hall on the Mayor’s massive SoHo/NoHo upzoning plan and our recent report revealing its true impact. The plan would allow hugely…
Read MoreThere are two critical upcoming meetings on the study by the City, BP Gale Brewer, and CM Margaret Chin about regulations in NoHo and SoHo and potential recommendations for zoning and other…
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 MoreLast month the Mayor formally released his massive SoHo/NoHo Upzoning plan, beginning the approximately seven-month public review and approval process. This is where the final outcome of this plan to…
Read More…the 2021 SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning that we had fought hard to secure, which prohibited NYU and other private universities from expanding most types of its facilities into the area. The original…
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 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 More…it’s located within the recently passed SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning area — specifically within one of the areas of the rezoning that was particularly earmarked as a “housing opportunity zone” where the…
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 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 More…officials like Councilmembers Margaret Chin, Carlina Rivera, and Corey Johnson, and Borough President Gale Brewer, to VOTE NO! CLICK HERE to Sign Up for Community Board 2 SoHo/NoHo Public Hearings…
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 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…The SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown rezoning plan would be a disaster for these neighborhoods, and set a blueprint for similar rezonings throughout our neighborhoods, which the current and incoming Mayor have both promised…
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 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…
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