A roundup of highlights from May’s Community Board 3 agenda.

Critics and supporters of N.Y.U.’s planned expansion in Greenwich Village pleaded their cases before the New York City Planning Commission yesterday. The lively exchange was a critical one, since the controversial project must be approved by both the Planning Comission and the City Council before construction can begin.

A roundup of this morning’s news.

A student is refusing to come down from his perch atop the Peter Cooper statue.

Cooper Union students swaddled their founder in red tape.

The show is back in the neighborhood and taking up a heck of a lot of parking spaces.

After 21 years, the laundromat owner says she still enjoys cleaning people’s clothes as well as their minds.

The protestors will join other students in Union Square at around 4 p.m.

The musician is putting his 3,000-square-foot, loft-style penthouse at 7 Bond Street on the market for $6.5 million.

The signatures of thousands of Rent fans are being digitized.

Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Good morning, East Village. Curbed reports that the Landmarks Commission has approved a more modest version of the controversial rooftop addition planned for the Hotel Chelsea. As The Local reported, the developer and architect behind the remodeling are also planning a hotel for the East Village. Pete Wells of The Times awards two […]

On the same day that a man is alleged to have taken a photo up a woman’s skirt as their train pulled into Union Square, another man was photographed inappropriately touching himself on his way to the same station.

The photography of David Sierra.

The art space’s fight against its landlord rages on.

The suspect allegedly shot a camera up a woman’s skirt while riding the subway.

Karl Fischer may be criticized, but he gets the job done quickly and efficiently, the owner of the new nine-story building said.

Opponents of tuition charges at Cooper Union are voicing disappointment at the school’s decision to begin charging tuition to graduate students. The move comes just days before a meeting in which students and faculty members will unveil their own strategies to bring solvency to the financially strapped school.

Paul Simon joins an illustrious group honoring the archetypical English poet of the second half of the 20th century at Cooper Union’s Great Hall tonight.

A couple of weeks ago, a tenant of 50 East Third Street complained that her landlord declined to renew her lease as well as those of about 17 neighbors because the building was being sold. “Enough is enough! These are our homes! We pay a fair rent! How much is too much?”, wrote Sue Palachak-Essenpreis, […]