The developer of 35 Cooper Square met with preservationists this afternoon and listened to arguments for maintaining the historic site.

The 2010 Census offers a portrait of an East Village that is more populous and less diverse. For the first time since the 1980’s, the area east of Avenue B is less than half Hispanic and the number of white residents in the area has surged.

Preservationists are holding out hope that there is still a future for 35 Cooper Square, now that the site’s developer has agreed to meet with neighborhood groups next month.

A slide presentation about N.Y.U.’s revised development plan was greeted by hostile interruptions, catcalls and hisses during a community meeting Monday night.

A look back at the history of 20 St. Marks Place.

A look at the debate over the futuristic design of the new Bowery Hotel.

City officials approved a demolition permit for the historic site at 35 Cooper Square.

On the same day that a preservation group held a news conference urging the Landmarks Preservation Commission to reconsider designating a pair of 170-year old buildings at 326 and 328 East Fourth Street as historic landmarks, the Department of Buildings awarded permits for both buildings to developer Terrence Lowenberg.

When New York University announced that it was abandoning a proposal to build a fourth structure on the Silver Towers site, it changed the direction of its expansion plan. Activists opposing New York University’s “2031 Plan” for expansion won’t have the “Silver Sliver” to kick around anymore. That was the news yesterday afternoon as the […]

City Council is set to vote today – and expected to approve — a measure that will cap building heights in the East Village at 120 feet or roughly 12 stories on the eight blocks between Third and Fourth Avenues and 13th and Ninth Streets.

It is still uncertain what effect NYU’s 2031 expansion plan will have on the East Village.