Armory Armageddon (Well, Hellish at Least)

Chaos and indecision descended on Community Board 8′s Seventh Regiment Armory subcommittee meeting last night at the New York Blood Center on the Upper East Side.

At issue are plans that the Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy has for the 127-year-old brick fortress between Park and Lexington avenues and 66th and 67th streets. The conservancy, Read More

War Over the Armory


The Armory, seen from Park Avenue.

Tempers are flaring on the Upper East Side over plans to convert the Seventh Regiment Armory, which occupies the block between Lexington and Park avenues between 66th and 67th streets, into a cultural-arts center. Area residents turned up en masse to request Community Board 8’s assistance in Read More

Veterans Throw Legal Wrench Into East Side Armory Plans

Before there can be any decisions on what to do with the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue-before any construction can begin, before the homeless women who stay there can be moved out, before the various Upper East Side factions can have their say-one basic question has to be addressed: Who owns it?

All along, Read More