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Andrew Berman

A Pier 40 playing field. (Hudson River Park Trust.)
Oct 22

Pier 40 Deal to Clear Way for 1.7M Square Foot Development Along Westside Highway

The de Blasio administration has reached a deal with a real estate developer and the Hudson River Park Trust to sell Pier 40's air rights for $100 million, the mayor's office has announced.
By Kim Velsey
The lay of the land. (Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation)
Oct 14

Appellate Decision Unfreezes NYU’s Expansion Plan; Opponents Remain Bullish

A panel of judges in the State Supreme Court's Appellate Division today reversed a previous ruling that put large portions of NYU's contentious $6 billion 2031 expansion plan on hold. The appellate decision takes issue with Judge Donna Mills' January finding that four Greenwich Village parcels, which the city had previously turned over to NYU, constituted "implied" parkland and thus could not be ceded ("alienated," in legal parlance), to the university without a vote in the state legislature. Judge Mills' ruling gave the go-ahead to the university for only one of four planned buildings—which had become the target of a lawsuit filed by Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, Community Board 2, local residents and the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), among others—while pumping the proverbial brakes on the other three.
By Chris Pomorski
Feb 17

High Line Developer Backs Down on Bid to Score More Square Feet for Studio Gang-Designed Tower

The developer of a commercial tower planned to rise along the western edge of the High Line at 13th Street
By Kim Velsey
Does landmarking help or hurt affordable housing—the unlandmarked West Village waterfront. (GVSHP)
Sep 25

REBNY Tries to Harness Populist Outrage In Battle Against Landmarking

By Kim Velsey
The proposed historic districts.
Jun 25

Saving the South Village: Commission Considers Landmarks District

By Kim Velsey
Mary Help of Christians Church on Avenue A was built over an old cemetery.
May 23

Building On a Boneyard? Preservationists Beg Steiner Not To Put Luxury Condos On Former Cemetery Site

By Kim Velsey
Who will follow in Amanda Burden's (very stylish) shoes?
May 17

Who Will Be New York’s Next Chief City Planner? And Does It Matter?

By Stephen Jacob Smith
You'd never guess it, but Vanderbilt Hall was actually build in the '50s.
May 7

You Win Some, You Lose Some: NYU Checked in South Village, Approved for Expansion in NoHo

By Stephen Jacob Smith
The Trump SoHo: a modern "apartment hotel" with a condo twist.
Apr 30

From the Ansonia to the Trump SoHo: A History of Rule-Bending Residential Hotels

By Stephen Jacob Smith
Hudson Square
Mar 20

It’s Official! Hudson Square Has Been Rezoned

By Kim Velsey
What will it mean for development in the South Village? (Trinity Real Estate)
Jan 31

Should Hudson Square’s Rezoning Have to Wait for the Designation of a Historic District?

By Kim Velsey
Like a rock: the Alice Austen house on Staten Island (the Historic House Trust).
Oct 31

Built To Last: New York’s Historic Houses and Ships Largely Unharmed By Hurricane

By Kim Velsey
Oct 9

Does New York City Need a Gay Rights Landmark?

By Kim Velsey
Do the setback! (Studios Architecture)
Sep 5

Good News and Bad News for the High Line as Chelsea Market Expansion Approved by City Planning

By Matt Chaban
Those towers? Not quite so big. (NYU)
Jun 6

NY-Phew: City Planning Commission Approves NYU’s Village Expansion With Some Changes

By Matt Chaban
Clear! (FXFowle)
Jan 20

Mourning the Rudin’s St. Vincent Win Before They’ve Even Won

By Matt Chaban
Oct 7

Silver Sliver Showdown: NYU Files for Village’s Tallest Building

By Matt Chaban
Jun 18

Dear N.Y.U., Stop Building in the Village—Sincerely, Some Village Residents

By Roland Li
Mar 23

NYU Ready to Grow

By Eliot Brown
Jan 21

First Hearing Tonight on Rudin's St. Vincent Proposal

By Tom Acitelli
Sep 11

Andrew Berman, the Village Crier

By Tom Acitelli
Mar 29

Gansevoort Billboards A Matter of Degrees

By Observer Staff
Dec 6

Oh, Donald

By Observer Staff
Nov 27

Too Tall or Too Trump? Activists Wage Soho Battle

By John Koblin
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