#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...
#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) ...
Advocacy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, MIH-Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, West End Avenue, ZQA-Zoning for Quality and Affordability
In 2015, LW! pressed the Landmarks Preservation Commission to maintain the original boundaries of the Riverside-West End Historic District Extension II. Unfortunately, after a vote, they did not, hence the “de Blasio Diet” where every building that...
#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...
#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...
#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...
#votersagainstsupertalls, CENTRAL dARK, Preservation Under Fire, shadows, skyline, Upper West Side, UWS
View the West 65th and West 66th Street Block Association’s video NYC” Development by Loophole which addresses the development activity at 36 West 66th Street (aka 50 West 66th Street).
Landmarks Preservation Commission
Round and round it goes! While there are laws in place at the state level to prevent conflicts of interest and government employees from working in similar arenas in the private sector for a certain window, the City laws are less stringent. They make...
#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK
Several council members have signed onto a letter penned by City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. Among them, Upper West Side Corey Johnson, Helen Rosenthal, Mark Levine and Bill Perkins, all in support of the need to...
