The Hudson River Park must generate more revenue
TALKING POINT By Diana L. Taylor, Robert K. Steele, Paul A. Ullman, Pamela Frederick, Franz Leichter, Jeffrey Kaplan and Lawrence B. Goldberg Over the last 18 months, the Hudson River Park Trust...
View ArticleTALKING POINT: Hudson Square rezoning not the win-win we hoped for
BY ANDREW BERMAN | On March 20, the City Council voted to approve Trinity Real Estate’s Hudson Square rezoning. This was the third major rezoning in Community Board 2 within a year, following the...
View ArticleTrust must improve its communication and transparency
TALKING POINT BY DEBORAH J. GLICK | I read “The Hudson River Park must generate more revenue” (talking point, by Diana Taylor et al., March 28) with interest, and am pleased that the Hudson River Park...
View ArticleThe day the Earth stood still: A regrettable reprise
By JERRY TALLMER | On October 27, 1962, a beautiful fall day here in the heart of Greenwich Village, I was a dead man walking. And so were you and you and you and you and you and… …and you, dear...
View ArticleAlphabet City slow zone would rapidly increase safety
TALKING POINT BY CHAD MARLOW | It was the story that broke the hearts of all New Yorkers. Just a few short weeks ago, Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both just 21 years old, were in a livery cab riding to...
View ArticleQuinn and city can’t omit 3 key South Village sites
BY ANDREW BERMAN | On April 15, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public meeting to present its draft proposed boundaries for a new South Village Historic District. This is a tremendously...
View ArticleConservancy will keep Washington Sq. looking good
V TALKING POINT BY WILLIAM CASTRO | Spring has arrived in New York City, and the heart of the Village, Washington Square Park, is again blooming with flowers and teeming with visitors. Washington...
View ArticleBoston’s ‘Odd Man Out’ 2013
BY JERRY TALLMER | On the night that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, marathon bomber on the run, was found bloodied and half-dead in a boat in the back yard of a house in Watertown, Massachusetts, I suddenly...
View ArticleBike-share: What would Jane Jacobs do?
BY CHARLES KOMANOFF | I didn’t get to speak at the Community Board 2 meeting last Thursday night to discuss bike-share — I stayed outside too long kibitzing on W. 11th St., so my speaker card landed at...
View ArticleBike-share sites could have been a win-win, but alas
V TALKING POINT: BY DAVID GRUBER and COREY JOHNSON | Let’s start with the obvious: We support the bike-share program. Our respective community boards wrote resolutions that said just that. There was...
View ArticleGiving the public a real say on NYCHA infill plan
BY BRAD HOYLMAN and BRIAN KAVANAGH | Leasing off the basketball courts of low-income New Yorkers to build luxury apartments might sound extreme, but that’s among the proposals by the New York City...
View ArticleWill a Democrat for mayor stand up for small stores?
BY SHARON WOOLUMS | After listening intently to each candidate at the Village Independent Democratic club’s mayoral forum, I had a nagging sense there was an elephant in the room. And it wasn’t the...
View ArticleJane and the death and life of a great American park
BY CATHRYN SWAN | The community around Washington Square Park is currently debating whether a private conservancy is a legitimate way to “improve” the park or just a “scheme” for New York University...
View ArticleAn old Villager entertains a newcomer at her place
BY KATHRYN ADISMAN | It’s not just the bike stations all in a row, metallic gleam — sterile as stainless steel — an ad for a bank. Uh-oh! Here comes the grumble of the old West Villager. There seems...
View ArticleLandlords’ rising income doesn’t justify a rent hike
V TALKING POINT Testimony of state Senator Brad Hoylman before the New York City Rent Guidelines Board on proposed rent hikes, June 13, 2013: Thank you, Chair Kimmel and the rest of the board for the...
View ArticleWho has the guts to fight for our small businesses?
BY SHARON WOOLUMS | Because of the positive response to my June 6 talking point in The Villager, “Will a Democrat for mayor stand up for small stores?” and a desire of many to know more, it seemed...
View ArticleCiti Bike has me on a roll, and it’s not very pretty
BY BILL WEINBERG | As a long-suffering New York City bicyclist, I really want to take heart in Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial measures to accommodate human-powered transport. But since the very...
View ArticleNew elite enclave is at odds with spirit of Village
BY ELISSA STEIN | Reminiscent of gutted stretches of the Upper East Side making way for gleaming, luxury buildings, the soon-to-be The Greenwich Lane site is already promoting an air of exclusivity,...
View ArticlePier air rights may open a Pandora’s box of development
BY ANDREW BERMAN | In late June we learned that the state Assembly and Senate had passed legislation that, among other things, allows the sale of air rights from piers within the Hudson River Park...
View ArticleThe billionaires back Margaret Chin for City Council
BY SEAN SWEENEY | Voter beware! In a move that surprised few, a consortium of real-estate developers, landlords, investment firms and bankers have endorsed Margaret Chin for City Council, pledging...
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