#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, Board of Standards and Appeals, CENTRAL dARK, Friends of the UES, Landmark West, shadows, skyline, Tours and Events, Zoning
LANDMARK WEST! presents newly available footage from the night of our Save New York Summit! On June 22nd, LANDMARK WEST!, along with Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, Save Harlem Now!, and Save Central Park NYC, hosted an...
#votersagainstsupertalls, CENTRAL dARK, Dept. of Buildings
Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Assembly Member Dick Gottfried and Senator Brad Hoylman have chimed in on the development site on West 66th Street. Noting that in talks between Council Member Helen Rosenthal, and the Community Board, Extell Development...
#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, CENTRAL dARK, Zoning
NEWS FLASH! The Department of Buildings has posted on its website a “Notice to Revoke” permits for the 668′ tower at 200 Amsterdam! This action is in direct response to the Zoning...
#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, CENTRAL dARK, Zoning
At Thursday, June 22nd’s Save New York Summit, #VotersAgainstSupertalls rallied to support appropriately scaled development and protect our skyline for a myriad of reasons. Among the speakers was Attorney and Community Defender Michael Hiller. Below is an...
American Museum of Natural History, Gilder Center, open space, parks, Theodore Roosevelt Park
The Parks Department received testimony on Thursday, June 15th in response to their posted DEIS prepared by AKRF. The full report, posted on the PARKS DEPARTMENT WEBSITE covers various expected impacts of the Museum’s proposal. LW! upheld...
#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, CENTRAL dARK, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List
New Yorkers from neighborhoods across the city came together on Thursday, June 22, 2017, for a Save New York Summit to discuss City policies that have enabled and incentivized the trend of supertall development, now threatening traditional residential...
brownstone, Continuing Education
Another capacity crowd for the Brownstones series! Wednesday, engineers Don Friedman and Nidal AbiSaab “dug” into what it means to excavate a historic building’s basement or rear yard. Arup once again hosted-thank you! Find all the presentations...
Anthony Robins, Art Deco, Tours and Events
Architectural historian Tony Robins wow’d an eager crowd with the beauties of Art Deco in Gotham last night. A wonderful photo presentation of city-wide skyscrapers from the Jazz Age was followed by a walk to view several Deco gems on 103rd and 104th Streets....
#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, CENTRAL dARK, Landmarks at Risk, Preservation Under Fire, Watch List
The scale of New York is being drastically changed – not just in Midtown Manhattan, but in neighborhoods throughout the city. The tide of “supertall” towers beginning to rise in residential areas, including those surrounding Central...
200 Amsterdam, Watch List
“PLANS FOR UPPER WEST SIDE’S TALLEST BUILDING ON HOLD AS CITY REVIEWS CHALLENGE BY NEIGHBORS,” reports the West Side Rag on June 10, 2017. George Janes, the zoning expert who filed an official Zoning Challenge against SJP Properties’ plan...
