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Path Through History sign in 42nd Street Port Authority Subway Exit. (Photo: Katy Turner)

The Truth Behind Those Puzzling Blue Subway Signs

Most New Yorkers don't give much thought to those blue scroll-style signs dotted throughout NYC’s subway exits—dismissing them as some peripheral text for tourists. But these signs are actually the backbone of Governor Cuomo’s Path Through History (PTH) initiative.
By Katy Turner
The lay of the land. (Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation)

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

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
A corner bohemians and investment bankers can agree on. (GVSHP)

The Foggy Ruins of Time? Landmarks Approves South Village Historic District

By Chris Pomorski
The proposed historic districts.

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.

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

By Kim Velsey
You'd never guess it, but Vanderbilt Hall was actually build in the '50s.

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.

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

By Stephen Jacob Smith
Hudson Square

It’s Official! Hudson Square Has Been Rezoned

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

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

By Kim Velsey
Where does the name really come from?

No Gay Landmarks, but At Least the Village Has a Gay Street

By Kim Velsey

Does New York City Need a Gay Rights Landmark?

By Kim Velsey
Will the LPC reconsider? (GVSHP)

Beastie Boy’s Townhouse and Gay Rights Landmark Eligible For Historic Register, But That Won’t Save It From the Wrecking Ball

By Kim Velsey
The buyer of Horovitz's old house is seeking a license to tear down. (Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Beastie Boy’s Former SoHo Townhouse Faces Demolition

By Kim Velsey
A colossal campus. (NYU)

Everybody and Their Brother Wants Scott Stringer to Oppose the NYU Expansion

By Matt Chaban

Tenth Street, Our Very Own Walk of Fame

By Matt Chaban

This Sunday, Tour Richard Meier’s Groundbreaking Westbeth Artists Lofts

By Matt Chaban

Rabbi Wants Condo On His Synagogue. Can We Sell the Lower East Side’s Soul to Save It?

By Laura Kusisto

Village Historic District Gobbles 235 Buildings

By Observer Staff

Equinox Billboards Draw A Crowd

By Roland Li

Controversial Meatpacking District Tower Approved by City Board

By Roland Li

Pei-Designed Silver Towers Win Landmark Status

By Eliot Brown

Village Activists Decry Plans for Taller Trump SoHo

By Dana Rubinstein

NYU Says It Will Keep Provincetown Playhouse Walls

By Lysandra Ohrstrom
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