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By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential Since the Starbucks that once stood there was closed and demolished, there’s been a fair speculation as to what would go up at 51 Astor Place. Designer Edward Minskoff revealed his designs to Curbed and EV Grieve back in June of last year which revealed a b...

NYU’s controversial expansion plans have been debated for the better part of a year now. The aggressive proposal calls for two blocks south of the current NYU campus in Greenwich Village to be converted into “superblocks” consisting of large new faculty buildings, student housing, and a new eleme...

By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential Rudin Management has rejected a design proposed for a possible AIDS memorial at the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital, according to the New York Daily News. The proposed Village AIDS memorial design was selected by a celebrity panel that included ac...

By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential Back in September, we covered the demolition of 331 East 6th Street, an historic East Village townhouse that was in the confines of the proposed East Village historic district. Now, the New York Post reveals that the owner of the demolished East Village tow...

By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential Despite words of protest from students and parents, the Department of Education has voted to phase out the Legacy School for Integrated Studies on 14th Street, according to a DNAInfo report. The decision came after a 9-4 vote from a panel that included Scho...

By Donna Dazzo of Village Confidential Many of us like to be surrounded by photos of our family and beautiful pieces of artwork, but are afraid we are going to "make a mistake" when hanging them on the wall. Or worse, some of us don't even know that the pictures are not hung properly. For you and...

By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential The new luxury development at the former St. Vincent’s Hospital is inching closer and closer to a reality. DNAInfo reports that City Planning has approved Rudin Management’s plans to convert the old hospital into luxury apartments and commercial space. The ...

By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential New York’s record collectors were shocked upon finding out that Bleecker Bob’s, the venerable Village record store that has been a neighborhood fixture for almost 45 years, would be leaving their West 3rd  Street location in April. The news broke on several...

By Kevin Korber of Village Confidential Local preservationist groups scored a major victory this week as the Landmarks Preservation Committee took the first steps towards creating an East Village historic district. According to reports issued last week, the LPC approved the application to set up ...

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