While New York is no closer to getting its first city-recognized gay landmark, it does have a Gay Street.
The street, a charming one-block stretch between Christopher and Waverly streets right off Sixth Avenue, would certainly be a well-placed tribute to the neighborhood’s role in the gay rights struggle. But is that really what it’s named for? Read More
You know what? If we had a big mid-career show at the Whitney we’d probably celebrate with a co-op in Greenwich Village, too.
Yes, Wade Guyton has attained the true measure of a successful artist: being able to afford Manhattan real estate. At least it’s nice to know that some artists still live in the Village. Read More
The Beats may be long gone, but protest music is alive and well in Greenwich Village—thanks in part to the institution that helped drive many of the artists out, New York University.
On Wednesday, a group of musicians, including Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth fame) and John Zorn will convene at 6:30 p.m. at Le Poisson Rouge to help raise money for NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan’s legal fund. Last month, the faculty group that opposes the university’s expansion south of Washington Square filed a lawsuit against the city and the University trying to stop it. All proceeds from the $20 show will go directly to the cause. Read More
As promised, a group of NYU faculty, preservationists and community groups, a dozen parties in all, have filed a suit against the city over the university’s controversial plans to expand its campus on two superblocks in the heart of Greenwich Village.
The suit charges that the rezoning that allows for the expansion violates a number of technical land-use issues, including the alienation of parkland, prior deed restrictions and the destruction of historic buildings and features within the community. There is also the argument that it will create decades of unmitigated environmental impacts, from pollution to construction noise. Read More
After years of enjoying the suburban life in Nyack, Rosie O’Donnell is finally moving to Manhattan, having closed on a four-bedroom, three-bath duplex penthouse at 130 West 12th Street.
The sale was rumored earlier this summer in the Post, and lo it was real and has finally closed, with Ms. O’Donnell plunking down $8 million for the Greenwich Village spread in one of St. Vincent’s former hospital buildings. The Rudin Family, which handled the condo conversion, was only asking $7.95 million, but in her exuberance, Ms. O’Donnell apparently dropped $50,000 to make it a nice even number. Read More
Marion Dougherty certainly knew how to pick them. The casting director, who died in 2011, plucked actors including the young Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman from relative obscurity, placing them in the roles that helped establish their careers. Her taste in apartments wasn’t bad either.
The casting director behind “Midnight Cowboy,” “The Sting,” “and “Full Metal Jacket” among others, lived in a sunny, three-bedroom Greenwich Village co-op at 26 East 10th Street that has just fetched $3.58 million after a little over a month on the market with Janet Aimone Robilotti & Associates broker Kimberly Robilotti. Owned by Dougherty’s estate, it was asking $3.79 million. Read More
The problems of Pier 40 are well documented by now. Once the golden goose of Hudson River Park, the pier is now so deteriorated, it costs more to maintain than it earns for the libertarian park. In two years, the pier might have to be shut down all together. With hopes of MLS soccer headed to Queens instead and a housing proposal on the rocks, what’s a park to do?
Well, it looks like Douglas Durst to the rescue. Read More
The two-bedroom co-op apartment at 40 Fifth Avenue has many winning features: a wood burning fireplace, a 23-foot entrance gallery, an eat-in kitchen, high ceilings and herringbone floors.
Unfortunately, the most exceptional features of the home—the Surrealist paintings of former occupant Dorothea Tanning—were not included in the $5.1 million sale to Philip Munger, a New School professor and big-time Democratic donor. Read More
Manhattan rental prices are so high these days that looking at the listings—they want how much for that place?—would almost be funny if it weren’t so sad. Renters are accustomed to smiling through their tears as they ink their names on leases they can’t really afford.
But at least one famously funny New Yorker will no longer have to search for the humor in the apartment hunt. Wait, wait… who is it? you ask. Why, it’s Mr. Mo Rocca! City records show the comedian/writer/journalist paid $1 million for a two-bedroom co-op at 69 West 9th Street. Read More
One of the lingering concerns over the NYU rezoning of its two superblocks—besides whether it not it was The Final Nail in the Village’s coffin—was the fate of 505 LaGuardia Place, one of the three 30-story concrete sentinels that makes up the I.M. Pei-designed Silver Towers.
The other two are faculty apartments, but this one is Mitchell Llama public housing, and the lease with NYU was set to expire in 2014, at which point rents could jump to market rates, possibly driving out long-time residents, many of them elderly. According to local Councilwoman Margaret Chin’s office, NYU has agreed to provide 505 LaGuardia with the old lease agreement in perpetuity. The pols who fought for this agreement, along with the tenants benefiting from it, are naturally ecstatic, as made clear in their quotes below. Read More
