Advocacy, City Council, City Hall, Dept. of City Planning, MIH-Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Zoning, ZQA-Zoning for Quality and Affordability
Beginning at 9:30 this morning, the City Council Committee on Zoning and Franchises began a hearing on the Department of City Planning and Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s proposal for ZQA, or more formally, Zoning for Quality and...
Advocacy, Carriage Horses, Landmarks at Risk
Despite all of the press on the proposed Carriage Horse “compromise”, few in the media have delved into the concerns of those affected by the proposal who are neither in the Horse Carriage nor Pedicab industries. DNAinfo has published an...
Advocacy, Carriage Horses, Landmarks at Risk
Late Sunday night, news broke that Mayor de Blasio had hammered out an agreement with the Horse Carriage operators that would keep many of them in NYC. As the details have begun to unfold, so has the outrage. Under the proposal, the number of horses will reduce...
Advocacy, Board of Standards and Appeals, Carrere and Hastings, First Church of Christ Scientist, Individual Landmark, Landmark West, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Watch List
Dear Neighbor: With so many critical, big-picture policy issues facing our neighborhood and city (eroding zoning protections, weakening the landmarks law, the list goes on), it’s all too easy to lose sight of the trees for the forest. A specific example of a...
Advocacy, Beaux Arts, Carrere and Hastings, public design commission, Scenic Landmark
LANDMARK WEST! celebrates a victory in the proposed Grand Army Plaza restoration that that was heard yesterday, June 24, at the Public Design Commission (PDC). The Central Park Conservancy’s plan to rehabilitate the plaza, an individual scenic landmark and...
Advocacy, architecture, landmark, Manhattan, New York City, NYPL, preservation
As reported by intern Melissa Doherty Protestors on the steps of the NYPLYesterday, a rally was held at the 42nd street New York Public Library in protest of the Central Library Plan (CLP), during a meeting of the library’s trustees. This plan, proposed by...
