Comment by ghaff

A conservative in the sense that anti-car urbanists can pick and choose things they really like from (such as not building a highway through Washington Square Park). Many of those same folks are probably less fond of keeping (as the article notes the fairly atypical) Greenwich Village encased in amber or at least up to the local community to evolve, opposition to the Lincoln Center (though there were certainly community costs), and opposition to non-luxury high-rise developments generally in many cases.