Grand Street near Suffolk St.; Essex Crossing Site 5.
These days on the Lower East Side, it’s tough to walk anywhere without confronting barricades, dump trucks and scaffolding. A big reason why is Essex Crossing, one of the largest construction projects in the city. Last night, the developers, Community Board 3, the LES Business Improvement District and Grand Street Settlement held a meeting to field community concerns and to offer information about construction jobs.
Several representatives were on hand from Delancey Street Associates, the consortium building the 1.87 million square foot mixed-use project on the former Seward Park urban renewal site. Katie Archer, director of community relations, encouraged locals to sign up for regular e-blasts via the Essex Crossing website. People can also bring problems to the developers’ attention by emailing: info@essexcrossingnyc.com. CB3’s Susan Stetzer asked residents to use the board’s online complaint form for problems with no
The team behind Smorgasburg and the Brooklyn Flea will soon debut a new venture, Hester Flea, on the Lower East Side, in the space previously programmed by the Hester Street Fair. A couple of weeks ago, it became known that the Seward Park Cooperative, which owns the lot at the eastern end of Hester Street, […]
In all our community meetings, in our community projects, what do we mean by “community?” What are the terms of planning? What do we mean by “collaboration?” Who is the “public” for our work and for our exhibitions about the past and the present? What happens to partnerships in the long term the fifty years of SPURA’s organizing or even the five years of our Layered SPURA partnerships? What labor is required to make this all happen? Here I want to explore the ways that the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area and its projects suggest that these definitions are mutable, unfixed, and that making your own definitions clear and being clear about those of your collaborators while seeing and making visible who has the power to set them, are at the center of this kind of work. It takes a specific kind of thinking and strength of will to question ideas that people think are simple or agreed upon. It takes a similar kind of thinking and strength to query or reject the premises, rule
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