TribecaTrib.Com By Lynn Ellsworth I don’t live in SoHo or NoHo, but I walk there often, for work, errands and sheer pleasure. These neighborhoods are one of the city’s greatest gifts to an [...]
A version of this was published in the Village Sun, July 2021 Lynn Ellsworth I love sidewalk cafes. I especially like the nice ones that have comfy chairs and plantings that separate me from [...]
CityLimits.org | December 23, 2020 ‘The fact is that MIH is just bad policy. In New York City’s housing market, it mostly enriches developers and real estate speculators while inflicting real [...]
The Tribeca Trib | December 17, 2020 By Lynn Ellsworth Governors Island is public land and home to an excellent park that is self-supporting. Yet 33 acres of it is about to be redeveloped for [...]
Citylimits.org | December 16, 2020 ‘Across the city, the mayor and developers are pushing rezonings and development projects that attempt to rip out the fertile roots of people and place, to [...]
CityLimits.org | December 15, 2020 A landmark is not merely an old building, but a navigational point for a community. Landmarks are given meaning by our relations to them – they do not exist in [...]
Lynn Ellsworth, for Tribeca Trust and Humanscale NYC Tribeca Trust and Human-scale NYC both object to the entire content of the zoning proposal on hand, based as it is in deeply flawed social [...]
Bowery Boogie | October 14, 2020 The following editorial was written by Kirsten Theodos and Lynn Ellsworth of Human-Scale NYC. In January 2019 the Department of City Planning, Councilwoman [...]
The Broadsheet | Lower Manhattan’s Local News | April 15, 2020 A Friend and Comrade of the Late Architect Recalls Battles Waged on Behalf of the Community Tribeca resident, professor, [...]
Readers are welcome to have some fun with our beautiful map of Human-Scale New York, shown above. It was made by a Columbia student for us. Here is what it means: The color yellow shows the [...]