CB 2 Landmarks Committee, Sean Sweeney, Chair – Jan. 11^th, 6:30 pm, CB#2 Office, 3 Washington Sq. Village, Ground Floor
25 Great Jones Hotel is the only item 

SLA LICENSING,  Raymond Lee, Chair

Tues., 1/12 @ 6:30 PM- St. Vincent’ Hospital, 170 W. 12^th St. Cronin Auditorium, 10^th Floor

1a.*   Apps. to the State Liquor Authority (SLA) for New License to sell liquor on-premise:

• II Buco Alimentari/Vineria, 53 Great Jones St., NYC 10012

• Ballato’s Rest. Corp., 55 E. Houston St., NYC 10012-upgrade

Ongoing Issues

Great Jones St. Hotel - UPDATE: 

LANDMARKS HEARING MONDAY, JAN 11 - CB#2 Office, Ground Floor,
3 Washington Square Village, 6:30 PM

SLA Memorandum of Understanding  

In six months of negotiations, including EVERY resident and property owner on Bond St. and Great Jones St. and committed stakeholders throughout NoHo, we managed to forge a 10-page Memorandum of Understanding attached to the hotel's liquor license, with developer, Louis Greco, SDS and operator, Todd English, for the 13-story hotel at 25 Great Jones St.  See the full text of the Memorandum. Highlights include:

• No roof top or open courtyard use, anywhere.

• Reduction of restaurant seating from 300 to 194

• Reduction of public (venue) serving from 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m., to 6:00 am to Midnight, Sunday through Wednesday and 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. Thursday through Saturday.  No service of alcohol until 10:00 a.m., seven days a week.

• All events, from a minimum of 50 to a maximum of 125, must end at Midnight, must have dedicated security personnel; are prohibited from using velvet ropes or sidewalk tents and the facility has been re-configured to provide an interior holding area for incoming event guests on both the Great Jones and Bond St. entrances.

• There will be 24/7 personnel assigned to answer and remedy all complaints from the neighborhood and there will be monthly meetings with the developer and operator to monitor the details of the Memorandum as well as other contingencies.

Here's the plan from cellar to second floor (click here for full-size PDF)

NoHo's MTA Project

We couldn't do better than Curbed coverage.....Here's the plan.

Houston St construction continues with the new MTA incursion at Lafayette Street.  This project will last for four years affecting the Lafayette/Houston intersection and Lafayette St. and all subway entrances.  The eastern side of Lafayette is finally complete, the western side begins in January, but is not scheduled to last as long.  We will keep you posted as we can - the MTA is not terribly open to conversation - but the resulting connected #6 uptown and downtown stations, elevators and better connection with the Broadway/Lafayette station should be an improvement when it is all done.

See Map and Detail on NoHo Public and Private Construction Projects

Water Tunnel Construction
The connection of the new water mains from the new water tunnel will last thru 2011. Phase I involves moving utility lines and locating old mains. This will occur from Astor Place, down Bowery to Great Jones and along East 4th St from Bowery to Broadway and Great Jones from Bowery to Lafayette and then along Lafayette from Great Jones to East 4th St.

Attached is the latest presentation from the Department of Design and Construction. There is a liaison and weekly/daily updates are available, from Karen Flores, T. 212-228-0731, F. 212-228-1259


And, here is a rough map of all the pending City and Private Construction currently in the works for NoHo.

 

Tisch/NYU Project at 383 Lafayette
NoHo had its first working group meeting on July 22nd. More than 50 people attended. NYU provided a thorough background on the project to date; acknowledged that there would be more detail provided as to the use and the volume of regular use as well as that for performance nights at the 3 small theaters planned. Renderings were provided for both the existing building (landmarked) and the proposed addition on the 4th St parking lot. There were questions largely centered on the massing and the design. There will be another meeting, and we hope to circulate a questionnaire to help focus the agenda, but, for now, NYU is focusing their time on their overall expansion planning in the core as well as remote site locations.  We will notify everyone well in advance of any more planning sessions for 383 Lafayette.

The NYU purchased 726 Broadway, former home of The Wiz, will be opening soon with its new ground floor book store and emporium. A planning and review session for the design and use of this space was held over the summer and was well received for its integration of NoHo industrial design as well as offerings contributing to non-university patrons.  The upper floors will relocate administrative offices from the core area around Washington Square, and the total square footage will count toward their projected need for 3 million square feet in the Greenwich Village core area. 
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SLA LICENSING -  PLEASE sign the ONLINE PETITION regarding the granting of future licenses to NoHo area addresses not previously licensed...this may seem obscure, but it IS important.