Category: Preservation

Mayor de Blasio, Council Members Margaret Chin and Carlina Rivera, and most members of the City Council championed the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement Plan in 2021 promising it would promote affordable housing development and wouldn’t destroy existing affordable rent-regulated housing. Sad to say, their predictions have turned out to be far from true — as Village Preservation warned.

Village Preservation has been leading an effort to save and seek landmark designation for the original Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 229-31 West 14th Street, which the NY Archdiocese relegated for sale earlier this year.

On Sunday, June 25, 2017, the St. Veronica’s held its last official services. Parishioners were expected to attend Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Bernard’s on West 14th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues (which is now for sale).