City Planning shows Stamina, Hopefully ZQA and MIH Won’t!

Dept. of City Planning, MIH-Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Zoning, ZQA-Zoning for Quality and Affordability

First the Good News: December weather is finally upon us! Now the Bad News: If you were like us, you were stuck freezing outside the City Planning Commission! 48-degree weather (felt like 44-degrees at the foot of Broadway!) greeted a long line of preservation and...

Continued Opposition to 361 Central Park West Residential Conversion

architecture, Board of Standards and Appeals, Carrere and Hastings, Individual Landmark, landmark, Landmarks at Risk, New York City, Upper West Side, Watch List, Zoning

Landmark West! wishes to comment on the application to the Board of Standards and Appeals for the conversion of the former First Church of Christ, Scientist (Carrère and Hastings, 1899-1903, an Individual Landmark designated in 1974) into a 39-unit residential...

City Revises Destructive Zoning Proposal

Preservation Under Fire, Watch List, Zoning

In March 2015, the City Planning Commission announced a massive citywide rezoning proposal that would raise height limits across the city and weaken hard-won neighborhood contextual zoning protections.  The stated justification for such radical changes:...

Community Testimony on the Proposed Zoning for Quality and Affordability Text Amendment

Watch List, Zoning

Preservation Groups, Community Leaders and Elected Officials meet for aPress Conference in front of City Hall, March 25, 2015 (Photo: Sean Khorsandi)Beverly Moss SpattPh.D., Urban PlanningFormer Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (1974-1978)Former Member...

LANDMARK WEST’s Letter to the Department of City Planning on the Proposed Citywide Rezoning

Watch List, Zoning

Here is, in full, LANDMARK WEST’s letter to Carl Weisbrod, Chair of the New York City Planning Commission, regarding the NYC Planning Proposal titled ‘Zoning for Quality and Affordability’ Dear Chair Weisbrod: LANDMARK WEST! is deeply concerned about...

PRESERVATION ALERT! Neighborhood Character is Under Threat!

Watch List, Zoning

PRESERVATION ALERT!NYC CITYWIDE REZONING PROPOSALWOULD WEAKEN HARD-WONCONTEXTUAL ZONING PROTECTIONS,RAISE HEIGHT LIMITSThirty years ago, in response to incongruous Tower-in-the-Park development promoted by New York’s 1961 Zoning Resolution, Upper West...