It's still up in the air as to what may become of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA), the lot of land in the Lower East Side that has been slated for redevelopment for the last 40 years or so. But one architect has a novel idea for what to do with the roof of the development: turn it into an artificial mountain. For skiing! And hiking! It's no Mt. Red Bull, but we'll take it.
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Better Off Dead: Architect Wants To Install Giant Ski Slope Over The Lower East Side
Underground Park Forever: Your Basic "Low Line" Questions, Answered
The idea of putting a giant subterranean park (or "Low Line") in the Lower East Side, a concept which New York Magazine brought to everyone's attention quite forcefully this week, comes with lots of questions. Like, where exactly are we talking about? And how will this not feel claustrophobic? Luckily for enquiring minds, in preparation for this weeks presentation to Community Board 3's land use committee, two of the men behind the idea of the Delancey Underground, James Ramsey and Daniel Barasch, are apparently quite happy to talk about their plans. Meanwhile, are we the only ones who can't help but think of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's lair when thinking about this project?
Photos: Essex Street Market Could Move Across The Street
As if it weren't enough that Jeffrey's Meat Market has left the Essex Street Market for good now, the Essex Street Market itself might pack up and move across the street! As part of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA), the fate for the 70-year-old market's footprint (if not its existence) has been up in the air for some time. And last night the New York City Economic Development Corporation for the first time laid out four options for what could happen to the storied market.
Saxelby Cheesemongers Will Protest Possible Essex Street Market Rapture At CB Meeting
[Update Below] We love being able to buy fresh produce, warm bread, a bottle of Pacifico and get a haircut and never leave the building. Thus, we love the Essex Street Market, a bastion of affordable, wholesome living on the Lower East Side. However, rising rent forced famed butcher Jeffery Ruhalter out of his space in March, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, who runs the building, keeps promising that the Seward Park Urban Renewal project may eventually force the market to move. That's why one of Essex's famed tenants, Saxelby Cheesemongers, is urging folks to show up to Wednesday's CB 3 Meeting to protest its "possible demolition and relocation."
[Updated] Times Are Tough For Jeffrey's Meat Market
[Update Below] Jeffrey Ruhalter, the Lower East Side butcher is having a rough winter. Despite a glowing Times profile in December about how the Essex Street Market butcher had gotten his groove back by reinventing himself and his third-generation shop with restaurant clients, classes and an online store, a new round of rent increases and insurance premiums are threatening his groove all over again.
Who Will Live In The New SPURA Apartments?
So now that the guidelines for the long-dormant Seward Park Uraban Renewal Area (SPURA) have been approved (you can check them out below), what will the roughly 1,000 new apartments bring to area? A whole lot of rich people, according to some calculations from Open City.
SPURA Inches Closer To Development on the LES
Forty years after it was cleared, the long-fallow Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) is as close as its ever been to seeing some actual renewal. Last night a Community Board 3 task force assigned to figure out what do with the area voted unanimously on a plan for the parcel and, best of all, Sheldon Silver, who carries enormous weight in the area and has previously been against plans for it, came out in favor of the latest proposal.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like SPURA?
After 40 years, is the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) finally going to, well, be renewed? Maybe! After much back-and-forth it appears that Community Board 3 is nearly in agreement over what should happen to the largest patch of undeveloped city-owned land south of 96th Street. That is, unless the ever-present State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver decides he doesn't like what ever they come up with.
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