First published Fri., May 3; Updated  Wed., May 8: BY LINCOLN ANDERSON   |  Andrew Berman told The Villager late last Friday afternoon May 3 that three important sites — including two owned by N.Y.U. on the edge of Washington Square Park — that had previously been left out of the proposed South Village Historic [...]

BY TERESE LOEB KREUZER  |  Puppeteer Ronny Wasser-strom and artist David Evirett-Carlson were nervous. They had just emerged from a Community Board 2 Parks and Waterfront Committee meeting on May 1 where Manhattan Borough Parks Commissioner Bill Castro had faced a room full of expressive-matter vendors who were not shy about expressing their questions and [...]

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON  |   More than 400 people — many of them indignant and fuming — turned out for a Community Board 2 forum last Thursday night on bike-share and, specifically, the siting of the new bike-share docking stations. C.B. 2 Chairperson David Gruber opened the remarks by saying he was disappointed that, despite his [...]

From Susan Stetzer, Community Board 3 district manager, on bike-share docking stations:   Bike Share will launch May 27. Issues that must be dealt with immediately, such as a blocked driveway or loading zone, should be e-mailed to the community board office (info@cb3manhattan.org) and we will work with the Department of Transportation to have these sites [...]

BY SARAH FERGUSON  |  New York’s community gardeners were once derided as squatters, even “communists,” for staking out flowerbeds and vegetable patches on city-owned lots. But on Sat., April 27, they were greeted by the city’s mayoral contenders as something else: political stakeholders. Seven candidates — including frontrunner Christine Quinn, Comptroller John Liu and former [...]

BY SAM SPOKONY  |  Damaris Reyes, executive director of Good Old Lower East Side, was the final person to speak before the interim opening of Pier 42 last Saturday, but she told a beginning of its history. And with her organization, which works to support neighborhood and preservation, entering its 35th year — just after recovering from [...]

BY SARAH FERGUSON  |  Gregg Singer’s plan to convert the East Village’s old P.S. 64 into an upscale 500-bed dorm received favorable reviews from members of the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday. Although L.P.C. postponed a vote on the project pending further modifications, the commissioners generally praised the proposed reworking of the turn-of the-century elementary [...]

BY ALAN KRAWITZ  | “Sign, sign, everywhere a sign, blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind.” Those lyrics from the 1970s song “Signs” could also apply to some Downtown residents’ wariness about a new program intended to help people navigate city streets. The new city initiative, scheduled to begin later this spring, will include the placement [...]