As the New York University graduate-student strike entered its second week, organizers were expanding its reach by enlisting support from unlikely allies.
To that end, last Thursday, Nov. 17, at Community Board 2’s monthly meeting, organizers from the United Auto Workers, which represented the N.Y.U. grad students until earlier this year, pleaded with the Read More
As the New York University graduate-student strike entered its second week, organizers were expanding its reach by enlisting support from unlikely allies.
To that end, last Thursday, Nov. 17, at Community Board 2’s monthly meeting, organizers from the United Auto Workers, which represented the N.Y.U. grad students until earlier this year, pleaded with the Read More
As anyone who lives or works near Union Square Park can attest, cars and pedestrians—especially at the death-defying intersection of 17th Street and Broadway—sometimes don’t co-exist peacefully.
Recently, the city’s Department of Transportation completed a study of the traffic situation around Union Square. The study hasn’t been released to the public, but The Observer obtained Read More
As anyone who lives or works near Union Square Park can attest, cars and pedestrians—especially at the death-defying intersection of 17th Street and Broadway—sometimes don’t co-exist peacefully.
Recently, the city’s Department of Transportation completed a study of the traffic situation around Union Square. The study hasn’t been released to the public, but The Observer Read More
Washington Square Park has been due to get its three-year, $16 million face-lift for several months now, with only a consensus among community groups and the Parks Department standing in the way of the groundbreaking.
Last April, Community Board 2 finally weighed in on the Parks Department’s plan, passing a resolution that supported the Read More
One might think that yellow cabs, those ubiquitous symbols of New York City, would be welcomed, even embraced, on the Upper East Side. After all, that neighborhood, along with the Upper West Side, accounts for a disproportionate number of taxicab-trip originations, according to a 2004 survey of the New York City cab industry.
But Read More
On Wednesday, July 27, Community Board 4 put the kibosh on fashion trade-show production company ENK’s plan to tent over the basketball and handball courts of DeWitt Clinton Park, at 53rd and 12th Avenue, in order to hold an invitation-only “Fashion Coterie” womenswear trade show for 600 guests. The event would have occupied the space, Read More
On Wednesday, July 27, Community Board 4 put the kibosh on fashion trade-show production company ENK’s plan to tent over the basketball and handball courts of DeWitt Clinton Park, at 53rd and 12th Avenue, in order to hold an invitation-only “Fashion Coterie” womenswear trade show for 600 guests. The event would have occupied the space, Read More
Electronic road signs at the Lincoln Tunnel ‘point to the continued treatment of Hell’s Kitchen as an entryway to the Lincoln Tunnel, rather than a vibrant, primarily residential neighborhood.’
-Letter from Community Board 4 to the Port Authority
Over 43 million vehicles use the venerable Lincoln Tunnel every year, with Ninth Avenue in midtown Read More
A city plan to remake the area around the cube sculpture at Astor Place moved into its infancy on the evening of May 19 with the tepid endorsement of Community Board 2 at its monthly meeting.
The Department of Transportation wants to make over the busy Astor Place–Cooper Square intersection, at the juncture of the Read More
