BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |  The squeaky wheel gets the — bike-share docking station removed. Residents of 49 Renwick St. in Hudson Square were relieved Tuesday to see workers wielding hand trucks dismantling and removing the new bike-share station lining Renwick St. at Spring St. in front of their home. Bike-share critic Sean Sweeney, director of [...]

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |  One of the frequently heard fears about the soon-to-launch Citi Bike program is that it will just mean thousands of more cyclists zooming around on the streets dangerously out of control. The Villager recently got a chance to test-ride one of the new bike-share cycles, and “zooming” wasn’t exactly the first [...]

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER  |  The nine-story building that once housed the Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged at 228 East Broadway will survive. On May 21, after around 15 minutes of discussion, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to approve it for designation as a New York City landmark. The Art Deco building was erected during [...]

BY SARAH FERGUSON  |  A week after developer Serge Hoyda drove a fence through the Children’s Magical Garden, gardeners and supporters are working feverishly to restore access to their beloved green oasis on the corner of Norfolk and Stanton Sts. Hoyda, whose firm S&H Equities owns one of the three lots that make up the [...]

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |  To help South Village superblock residents endure the years of construction, dust and general upheaval from its N.Y.U. 2031 mega-expansion plan, New York University is preparing to install sound-buffering windows in its Washington Square Village and Silver Towers complexes. Alicia Hurley, N.Y.U. vice president of government affairs and community engagement, recently [...]

By Lincoln Anderson Seven months after Hurricane Sandy knocked out electricity in Hudson River Park, the park’s Greenwich Village section was still without power as of this week. As a result, Park Enforcement Patrol officers have been closing the park every day at dusk, fencing the entrances off with movable metal gates. Not only has [...]

Yankee Stadium was packed with a crowd of 33,000 Wednesday — not for a baseball game, but for New York University’s 181st commencement. Also, it was in the morning, not the evening. But pretzels and Nathan’s hot dogs were still being sold at the concession stands. Under overcast skies, 8,000 students receiving undergraduate, graduate and [...]