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IS THIS THE END OF GREENWICH VILLAGE?
By Christopher Hitchens | July 2008
Last Call, Bohemia
Every successful society needs its Bohemia, a haven for the artists, exiles, and
misfits who regenerate the culture. With the heart of New York's West Village
threatened by developers, London, Paris, and San Francisco have a message for
Manhattan: Don't do it!
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Setting the record straight
By Delia Guazzo | Volume 78 / Number 21 - October 22 - 28, 2008
Your recent article ("Agency rep's all prescribe O'Toole site as best option,â€� Oct. 15) seriously misstates the testimony before the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the St. Vincent's Hospital proposed expansion, and does a grave disservice to your readers by misrepresenting the facts...Read Letter (#2) »
The Subsidy Ball: The Rudin/St. Vincent's Proposal
October 8, 2008
The trick to keeping tack of what is going on with the Rudin/St. Vincent's Hospital development proposals now being evaluated by the city Landmarks Preservation Commission is to keep your eye on the ball. The ball is the special subsidy that would...Read article »
St. Vincent's Faulty Tower
By Naomi Usher | GVBA News Autumn 2008
The media in China sometimes reports events before they happen. They called a recent Chinese space shot a "great success" before the rocket even left the ground. Comic pundit, Stephen Colbert, spoofed this "before it happens reporting" on the Colbert Report... Read more (on page 8) »
St. Vincent's Development Plan Gets a Hearing
By Glen Collins | October 7, 2008
Despite the ever-expanding toll of the global economic crisis, a $1.6 billion plan for a medical tower in Greenwich Village lived on at a hearing of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday, and residents continued to disagree about it...Read article »
Our knack for defeating 'absolutely necessary' projects
By Gary Tomei | Volume 78 / Number 8 - July 23 - 29, 2008
I submit that the Rudin/St. Vincent's proposal to build two megasized buildings in the Village is a project that is not "absolutely necessary,"and their
application before the Landmarks Preservation Commission to build these monoliths
should be denied since it does not meet the "hardship"...Read article »
IN VILLAGE, A PROPOSAL THAT ERASES HISTORY
By Nicolai Ouroussoff | April 1, 2008
The passionate battles surrounding the birth of New York's preservation movement nearly a half-century ago seem like distant memories now. For some New Yorkers the main threat to architecture in the city is no longer the demolition of its great landmarks, but a trite nostalgia that disdains the new...
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NEW YORK CANDIDATES AWASH IN REAL ESTATE CASH
By Ray Rivera | February 1, 2008
The real estate industry, racing to beat strict new limits on campaign contributions, has been flooding New York City candidates with donations for the 2009 campaign at a rate three and four times that in previous election cycles...Read article »
ICONS AT RISK, CURRAN O'TOOLE BUILDING
By David V. Griffin | May/June 2008
Designed as the headquarters for the National Maritime Union and now a part of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, this midcentury classic, set in historic Greenwich Village, is one of the most flamboyant in New York. With cantilevered levels and a facade covered in tiny white tiles, the structure is a playful anomaly among more sober neighbors, its highly expressive style reminiscent of buildings by Edward Durell Stone...Read article »
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Commissioner Roberta Gratz's Comments on the St. Vincent's Hardship Application
Historic Districts Council Newstand | October 28, 2008
Turf Wars: Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins vs. St. Vincent's Hospital
By Joey Arak | The New York Post Page Six Magazine | October 19, 2008
The Missing Landmarks Commission
Editorial | The New York Times | October 17, 2008
St. Vincent's proposal for O'Toole raises a fundamental issue
By Ross Sandler | CITYLAND Volume V | September 15, 2008
Local pols take their medicine, support St. Vincent's to jeers
By Albert Amateau | The Villager | Volume 78 / Number 7 - July 16 - 22, 2008
Actors Speak Against Plan to Redevelop St. Vincent's
By Glenn Collins | The New York Times | July 16, 2008
Preservation and Community Groups Speak Out On Rudin Luxury
Condo/St.
Vincent's Tower Project
Protect the Village Historic District Urges Landmarks Preservation
Commission
to Reject the Rudin Luxury Condo/St. Vincent's Tower Project
Craig from Craigslist indulges himself -Preserve the Village
Doctors Say Hospital Is Falling Victim to Its Own Real Estate Value
By Anemona Hartocollis | The New York Times | June 10, 2008
St. Vincent's Pleads Poverty to Evade Landmark Law
By Glenn Collins | The New York Times | May 10, 2008
Building Proposal by Greenwich Village
Hospital Is Rejected
By Glenn Collins | The New York Times | May 7, 2008
LPC orders revision of St. Vincent's expansion
The Real Deal | Updated On 05/06/08
Landmarks Commission Pushes Back Against St. Vincent's, Rudins
by Eliot Brown | The NY Observer | May 6, 2008