Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Greenwich Village

City Planning Commission OKs Excess St. Vincent’s Parking

By Noah Kazis | Jan 26, 2012 | 9 Comments

The City Planning Commission approved a Rudin family request to build 50 percent more parking than allowed at the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village. The commission’s unanimous approval came last Monday despite opposition to the parking garage from the local community board and evidence that Rudin hadn’t met the city’s […]

Will City Planning Commission Uphold Parking Maximums at St. Vincent’s?

By Noah Kazis | Dec 6, 2011 | 6 Comments

The sides are lining up for and against the oversized parking garage that the Rudin family wants to build for its luxury apartments at the former St. Vincent’s Hospital site in Greenwich Village. Supporting the request to exceed Manhattan’s parking maximums is Borough President Scott Stringer. Opposing it are the community board and the urban […]

Manhattan CB 2 Votes Unanimously for Hudson Street Bike Lane Upgrade

By Noah Kazis | Nov 21, 2011 | 13 Comments

The full board of Manhattan Community Board 2 voted unanimously last Thursday night to endorse a community-generated plan to convert the buffered bike lane on Hudson Street to a parking-protected lane. The new protected lane would extend the protected Eighth Avenue bike lane down to Canal Street and the Ninth Avenue bike lane to Bleecker […]

Village Residents Fight to Keep Fourth Parking Garage Off Single Block

By Noah Kazis | Sep 21, 2011 | 12 Comments

Last year, due to protracted financial difficulties, St. Vincent’s in Greenwich Village closed its doors after 150 years, one-and-a-half centuries that saw the hospital play a major role treating victims of the AIDS crisis and the 9/11 attacks. Though many in the neighborhood hoped to see a full-service hospital remain in the Village, a plan eventually […]

Pop-Up Café Expansion Faces Critical Community Board Vote Tonight

By Noah Kazis | Mar 24, 2011 | 18 Comments

When DOT installed its first “pop-up café” over a few parking spaces on Lower Manhattan’s Pearl Street last summer, the 14-table public seating area helped increase business by 14 percent at its two sponsoring restaurants. With New York City still recovering from recession and much of the city starved for public space, DOT has moved […]

Bill Thompson, Business Owners Decry Phantom Bike Lane

By Brad Aaron | Aug 12, 2009 | 26 Comments

Greenwich Avenue: Plenty of commerce-loving cyclists, no bike lane. At a recent campaign stop in Greenwich Village, city comptroller and mayoral candidate William Thompson got an earful from local merchants about the hardships of running a small business. While Tea & Sympathy owner Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett calling Chris Quinn "a whore," and Thompson’s reaction, made headlines […]

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