Stuyvesant Town dad: Rezoning put my kids in different schools
By Maria Rocha-Buschel When Paul and Allison Walsh sent their daughter Jane to PS 40 for pre-K in 2003, they never thought there would be any problems sending the rest of their children there,...
View ArticleStuy Town resident says gold watch was stolen from apartment, then returned
Frank Scala, at a recent Tenants Association meeting, discusses how his gold watch went missing. (Photo by Sabina Mollot) By Sabina Mollot During a string of burglaries a year ago in Stuyvesant Town,...
View ArticleStuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association will rally on day of...
ST-PCV Tenants Association President John Marsh, pictured in May, 2013 with local elected officials and tenants, protests a mid-lease increase. (Photo by Sabina Mollot) By Sabina Mollot Following...
View ArticlePolice Watch: Burglar hits Immaculate Conception Church, Former Beth Israel...
Compiled by Maria Rocha-Buschel BURGLAR HITS IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH Police are looking for a burglar who stole $11,000 in cash from the rectory at Immaculate Conception Church. The man entered...
View Article‘CAPE’ crusade aims to fight predatory equity
Council Member Dan Garodnick, with other elected officials at City Hall, discusses the “CAPE” coalition. (Photo by Ilona Kramer) By Sabina Mollot On Wednesday, Council Members Dan Garodnick, Jumaane...
View ArticleCouncil backs expansion of eligibility for SCRIE
Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh, pictured at a Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association meeting on May 10, authored legislation to expand eligibility to SCRIE. (Photo by Sabina Mollot)...
View ArticleStuy Town mugger Henry Huggins sentenced to 38 years to life
Surveillance photo of Henry Huggins By Maria Rocha-Buschel Henry Huggins, the mugger convicted of assaulting and robbing two elderly men in Stuyvesant Town in 2011, was sentenced to 38 years to life in...
View ArticleTruck flips on its side from caved in walkway in Stuyvesant Town
A truck fell on its side on a Stuyvesant Town construction site. At around 11:30 a.m., a truck at the construction site for the new management office flipped on one side after the walkway underneath it...
View ArticleGashouse Gang honors Stuy Town with name
One of the Peter Stuyvesant Little League’s junior teams has chosen its name based on where the majority of its players are from. (Photo by Tomoe Mattiello) Whenever one of the Peter Stuyvesant Little...
View ArticleHow author’s fear of death inspired her travels and memoir
Jennifer Coburn By Sabina Mollot After losing her father to lung cancer when she was a teenager, Jennifer Coburn grew up thinking that she too would end up in an early grave. Though she wasn’t...
View Article‘Roberts’ payments should be sent out next week
Alex Schmidt In mid-May, Town & Village reported how “Roberts v. Tishman Speyer ” tenants would soon see their payments, specifically by the end of May, according to tenants’ attorney Alex Schmidt....
View ArticlePols planning housing ‘emergency legislation’
Council Member Dan Garodnick (second to left) with Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh and State Senator Brad Hoylman pictured at a January meeting of the ST-PCV Tenants Association meeting, with (far left)...
View ArticleCW Capital officially owner of ST/PCV
Stuyvesant Town leasing office (Photo by Sabina Mollot) By Maria Rocha-Buschel CW Capital formally took ownership of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in a move to prevent a “mysterious...
View ArticleStuyvesant Town veteran receives medals at VA
At ceremony, Maloney says vets not taking advantage of 23rd St. hospital Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney pins a medal on Jerry Alperstein’s jacket during a ceremony on Tuesday. (Photos by Sabina Mollot)...
View ArticleMaloney: Fannie/Freddie bill won’t get passed as is
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, at a May, 2010 press conference in front of Stuyvesant Town, discusses her Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac legislation. (Photo by Sabina Mollot) By Sabina Mollot Two weeks before...
View ArticleEditorial: The silence is deafening
UPDATE: Following Town & Village’s Wednesday afternoon press time, the de Blasio administration has discussed options being explored in the effort to keep Stuyvesant Town affordable with the press....
View ArticleCity exploring options to maintain affordability in Stuyvesant Town
Senator Chuck Schumer with other elected officials at a rally in Stuyvesant Town in 2010 (Photo by Sabina Mollot) By Sabina Mollot One month after CWCapital’s beginning of the foreclosure process of...
View ArticleTenants rally to demand affordability, involvement in any deal
Click to view slideshow. By Sabina Mollot Despite on and off downpours, a crowd of around 200 tenants rallied on the steps of City Hall on Friday morning to demand more involvement in any future deal...
View ArticleMany ‘Roberts’ tenants getting less money than expected
Alex Schmidt By Sabina Mollot Many current and former residents of Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village who are members of the “Roberts v. Tishman Speyer” class action are getting less in damages than...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: This week in T&V history
1964 Little League champs By Maria Rocha-Buschel Town & Village newspaper has been providing news for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village for over 65 years and we’ve decided to start taking a...
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