984′ and Counting

#votersagainstsupertalls, Advocacy, CENTRAL dARK

The definition of SuperTall has “grown” as the sky is, increasingly no longer the limit.  SHoP Architects has just passed the threshold into the SuperTall Club.  DEZEEN (linked) writes that 111 West 57th Street, the 43-foot wide plot will rise...

66th Street Challenge is filed! 75 Days of Road Ahead.

#votersagainstsupertalls, Advocacy, CENTRAL dARK

Ever vigilant, LW! and Neighbors filed a  Department of Buildings Zoning Challenge  against 36 West 66th Street,* today.  * (the proposed 39-story building which hopes to rise 775-feet,  as tall as a 77-story office building)     ...

215′ of Nothing is NOT okay!

CENTRAL dARK, Watch List

LANDMARK WEST! and neighbors have filed our Department of Buildings Zoning Challenge against the CENTRAL dARK Tower,  a proposed 39-story, 775-foot tall tower which includes 215-feet (equivalent to 21 residential stories!) of void space planned for 36 West...

66th Street Zoning Challenge Meeting

#votersagainstsupertalls, Advocacy, CENTRAL dARK, Zoning

Mark your Calendars: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th: (1) New York State Primary Day   Polls are open 6am-9pm.  Please remember to vote!  (2) Zoning Challenge Forum Doors open at 6:30pm. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, West 65th Street...

City Planning Examines Voids

#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK

New York City’s Department of City Planning, Manhattan division met with neighbors and LANDMARK WEST! this week to address mounting concerns over zoning abuses not only on the Upper West Side, but city-wide.  Oft-voiced concerns pertain to unnecessary void...

It is “GO” Time on W 66th St. Zoning Challenge

#votersagainstsupertalls, CENTRAL dARK

  ‘Life isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon’  so they say — sometimes it is BOTH. LW! and neighbors race to file Zoning Challenge against 36 West 66th Street (aka 50 West 66th Street) as long-range efforts to curb...