Community Issues
Mulry Square Ventilation Plant 2nd Hearing
via GVSHP: New Hearing on MTA ‘Emergency Ventilation Plant’ Project for Mulry Sq., 7th & Greenwich Ave.: The MTA’s plans to construct an emergency ventilation plant at this busy intersection has drawn great criticism from GVSHP and many others. The site is immediately adjacent to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where another large multi-year construction project... »
Seravalli Playground ReDesign: Scoping Meeting
Update: 2nd (re-scheduled) scoping to take place October 15th at 6.30pm as part of the CB2 Parks & Rec meeting at the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center (on Carmine Street). For those of you following the redesign of the Seravalli Playground/Park, please note that Chris Crowley has been assigned to the project and he will... »
Horatio Street Crime Wave
Unfortunately, I write with sad news. Over the past few weeks, Horatio Street residents have reported two muggings (one in the morning in Seravalli Park, one in the evening on the corner at Greenwich) and at least one robbery. A suspect was apprehended (and is out on bail) in the case of the evening... »
Proposal to legalize illegal billboard at 675 Hudson
via GVSHP: GVSHP just found out that tonight Community Board #2′s Landmarks Committee will be hearing a proposal by the owner of 675 Hudson Street to legalize the illegal south-facing billboard on the rooftop of this building. This is one of many billboards in the Meatpacking District which GVSHP and many neighbors have been... »
Mulry Square Ventilation Plant Comments Deadline
As we know from our neighbors on 13th Street, a ventilation plant installation by the MTA is no small project. That location took 6 years of construction and a heavy toll on the nearby buildings and residents from the traffic congestion and disruptive construction work. And now, the MTA is looking at building a... »
Greater Gansevoort Urban Improvement Project and 9th Ave
My apologies for the above UGLIEST MAP EVER (I suck at graphics), which is my rendering of the proposal from the Greater Gansevoort Urban Improvement Project for Gansevoort Plaza re-configuration. If anyone wants to send me a fancier, prettier, better map, I would happily replace mine with theirs. BTW – pink equals cars. Green... »
Traffic & Transpo Committee
If anyone out there has not yet heard about the Greater Gansevoort Urban Improvement Project (God is that a mouthful), here’s your opporutunity. The group will be presenting their findings and proposals to the (open to the public) TRAFFIC & TRANSPORTATION committee of Community Board 2 on Tuesday, 7/10 @ 6:30 PM –NYU Silver... »
Billboard & Hotel Gansevoort update
The battle against the illegal billboards at Hotel Gansevoort continues, as reported by Ivy Brown, we are currently looking into the garden of ono at the gansevoort hotel and it’s illeagel entrance on hudson street, (by law all should enter through the restaurant on 13th street). i am a big supporter of protesting the... »
Because apparently we weren’t heard the first few thousand times…
from GVSHP: GVSHP and other neighborhood groups have long been pushing to change the zoning for Hudson Square, the area west of Sixth Avenue from roughly Houston to Spring Streets, where Donald Trump plans to build his 45-story ‘condo-hotel.’ The City’s recent decision to allow condo-hotel development in manufacturing zones like these makes the... »
PM Lounge – Noise Code Violation Hearing
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Subject: PM Lounge – Hearing for Noise Code Violation Tuesday, June 26th and Wednesday, June 27th at 9:30am 111 Centre St. Room 949 NY, NY 10013 / Judge Stallman / NYC Civil Court Dear Neighbors, My husband and I and two young children (Lucas, 6 and Juliette, 3) moved into unit 1A... »
West Side Highway traffic Light @ Horatio/Gansevoort
Anneke from 95 Horatio writes in with an important concern about a traffic light: I have a concern about the traffic light we use to cross the west side highway from Horatio/Gansevoort to the river. If a car is driving west on Gansevoort and will turn left to head south on the west side... »
The sky is falling down, the sky is falling down
AH, no, the sky isn’t falling down – these are views of the scaffolding coming down at the corner of Horatio & Hudson- which just makes the sky look so close and big and grand and open! Oops, I guess we should have planted the tree beds on that block rather than skipping the... »
Bye bye bus stop?
Yesterday, when the second M14a bus driver in a week flew by our lovely corner bus stop on Hudson Street between Horatio Street & Jane Street, I asked the bus driver what was going on. According to him, “we no longer stop here since more than one week”. No more info was forthcoming from... »
Seravalli Playground Redesign Report
So here’s the skinny: Since our community playground, Seravalli Park, won the lottery as a host for the 5 year dig to create Shaft 27B of Water Tunnel 3 (ooh, I’m so smart and technical), we get 2 MILLION dolllars to rebuild the park after the water tunnel shaft is complete. Whenever that may... »
1 Ninth Ave – Hearing by Landmarks to Alter 1 Ninth
The CB2 landmarks committee heard an application to alter and/or demolish 1 Ninth Avenue at their hearing on Monday night. Before the meeting, there wasn’t a great deal of information available; the calendar simply read that the owner wishes “to alter the facade, demolish the ne-story building and construct an addition.” Given what’s... »
May 9-19 HighLine Festival – Oh, David Bowie
Ever since I saw David Bowie in Labyrinth, back in 1986, well, I’ve been a little obsessed. So, when I found out he was ‘curating’ the first annual High Line Festival, I went gaga with excitement. But now, I have to admit I’m confused. The H&M Highline Festival, which bills itself as a new... »
Liquor & Sidewalks – keeping tabs on the scene via CB2 monthly agenda
CB2 SIDEWALKS, Sidewalk Cafe Licenses: Mon., 4/16 @ 6:30 PM – St. Vincent’s Hospital, 170 W. 12th St. Cafeteria (I.D. Required) Fig & Olive, the new Mediterranean resto (which serves over 30 olive oils – holy olive oil batman!) at 420 West 13th street, b/w Wash & 9th, is requesting permission for a sidewalk... »
Seravalli Playground Planning ReDesign & Budget
Are you interested in the rebuilding effort for Seravalli Playground? The CB2 Waterfront, Parks, Recreation & Open Space committee (what a mouthful) will be meeting on Monday, 4/9 at 7pm at the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center (3 Clarkson Street, 3rd Floor) to hear a report on DEP funds for the project, and discuss design... »
