BY ANDREW BERMAN  |  The April 25th City Planning Commission hearing on New York University’s proposed Village expansion plan has been called the longest in the commission’s history. Hundreds of Villagers, N.Y.U. faculty and students, and average New Yorkers showed up to urge the commission to reject the plan. The commission is now examining the [...]

[media-credit name="File photo " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Currently, about 1,400 parking spots are used on Pier 40. The number could be higher, but the pier’s roof is in deteriorated condition. BY RICHARD GOTTFRIED |  The Hudson River Park is in serious financial trouble. The state and city are committed to funding the completion of the park, although [...]

By JERRY TALLMER  |  What an extraordinary juxtaposition. On one day, the president of the United States has the cojones, the balls, the sheer guts to make public his hard-wrestled belief that it is right and proper for a man to marry a man, a woman to marry a woman, if they want each other [...]

BY DEBORAH J. GLICK  |  Downtown Manhattan and the West Side are awash in new development proposals that threaten the very nature of the most successful — and livable — of New York’s neighborhoods. The latest is a plan to construct high-rise luxury housing with 800 apartments at Pier 40, which will dramatically alter the [...]

BY JUDY PAUL and NOAM DWORMAN  |  Several weeks ago, thanks to the hard work of Borough President Stringer, New York University announced that it had made improvements to its proposed development in the Village, for the first time since the community began calling for changes.  While the reductions in density, preservation of some of [...]

BY MARGARET S. CHIN   |  This is what our city stands to lose this year: 25,000 after-school seats; nearly 16,000 childcare slots; 159 of 251 shelter beds for runaway and homeless youth and drop-in and street outreach services; 20 fire companies; 40 library branches; 2,750 teaching positions; senior services, including transportation, elder-abuse services, and [...]

BY DEBORAH J. GLICK  |  New York University has always yearned for a true campus experience for its students. This goal has eluded N.Y.U. as it has struggled to expand within the confines of the Village neighborhood. Now the university’s aggressive and extremely overreaching development plans, as currently designed, would wall off Washington Square Village [...]