From New Yorkers for a Human Scale City One Last Chance to Defeat the Up-zonings: Mark Your Calendars The City Planning Commission is having a meeting on February 3 at 10:00 a.m. at 22 Reade Street. Members of the public are not allowed to speak but they can watch the commission take its own, […]
Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays Book Talk & Signing with Acclaimed Author Witold Rybczynski* With a special introduction by former New York Times editor Constance Rosenblum** - Wednesday, February 3, 2016 6:30 to 7:30 PM Macaulay Honors College, 35 West 67th Street - $10 for LW! members & students, $20 for non-members RSVP required (space is […]
The City Council is expected to vote to give themselves a raise from $112,500 to $148,500 (and $164,500 for Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito), far in excess of inflation and what an official Quadrennial (pay raise) Commission recommended, as reported by the New York Daily News. Coincidentally (?) the vote on Intro. 573-a, aka the Horse Carriage "compromise" […]
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From New Yorkers for a Human Scale City Come one, come all! Turn out February 9th, 9:30 a.m., at City Hall itself, for the City Council hearing on the hated up-zonings. Take the day off work. Let the City Council know, in person, with two-minute testimony, what you think. Councilmember David Greenfield will be presiding […]
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Andrew Berman, Executive Director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, takes a sharp look at two proposed zoning initiatives, Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH). Andrew will also weigh in on a New York City Council Bill, Intro 775, which, if passed, would dramatically shorten the timeline for landmarking historic buildings, thus jeopardizing New York's […]
Please join the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group for Jim Mackin's presentation Straus Park II More Bloomingdale Neighborhood History A Presentation by Jim Mackin February 22, 2016 at 6:30pm At Hostelling International, 891 Amsterdam Ave (103rd St) Free All Welcome For more info 212-666-9774 Presented by Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group www.upperwestsidehistory.weebly.com www.bloomingdalehistory.com With […]
