MAKING MUSIC Event for 711 West End Avenue!

Watch List, WEA

TAG, the Tenants’ Action Group of 711 West End Avenue is presenting a special concert to focus community attention to the imminent threat to 711 WEA Tenants’ safety with the proposed building of ten stories of high-priced condos on top, around and under...

Deja Vu All Over Again

Congregation Shearith Israel, Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List

CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL’S W. 70TH STREET LUXURY CONDOS   DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN… Back in 2003, the late Peter Jennings (a West 70th Street neighbor) wrote: The synagogue gives the impression of having worked to bypass the neighbors, to have...

Community Board 7 Addresses Tall Towers on UWS

CENTRAL dARK, Watch List

POSTPONED DUE TO OVERWHELMING PUBLIC INTEREST!  Please stay tuned – the meeting will be rescheduled and held in a larger venue. On Wednesday, January 18, starting at 7pm in the CB7 office at 250 West 87th Street, Community Board 7 will once again take up...

Zoning Variance Agency Under Scrutiny

Congregation Shearith Israel, Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List

New legislation aims to regulate the Board of Standards and Appeals By Madeleine Thompson, West Side Spirit and Our Town Read LW’s 12/14/16 testimony before the NY City Council’s Committee on Governmental Operations Email City Council...

LPC Hears Morningside Heights Historic District

Advocacy, Andrew S. Dolkart, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Watch List

After more than two decades of hard work, the LPC heard testimony on Tuesday for a much-anticipated Morningside Heights Historic District.  Representatives from Jerrold Nadler’s, and Daniel O’Donnell’s offices spoke in favor of designation, as...

Nixed Again! CSI covered by West Side Spirit

Community Board 7, Congregation Shearith Israel, Land Use Committee, Landmarks at Risk, Watch List

Olivia Kelley recounts the latest trials for Congregation Shearith Israel’s long-toothed proposal to build five stories of condos atop their new community house.  In Shearith Israel Project Nixed Again (linked), Kelley hones in on key points...