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This isn’t a Game

This isn’t a Game

#votersagainstsupertalls, Advocacy, CENTRAL dARK, Dept. of City Planning, Zoning

The City enacts building codes and zoning guidelines often to protect the public.  Jacob Riis instigated housing reform and new tenement laws by exposing the horrid living conditions of the immigrant poor.  The Triangle Shirt Waist Factory immolation yielded...
THE GUARDIAN: Anything but “Super”

THE GUARDIAN: Anything but “Super”

#votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK

Like leggy plants given too much fertiliser, [sic] these buildings are a symptom of a city irrigated with too much money. The Guardian takes on the emergence of a “new” typology in “Super-tall, Super-skinny, Super-expensive: the ‘Pencil...
Mechanical Voids Are Highbrow/Despicable

Mechanical Voids Are Highbrow/Despicable

#votersagainstsupertalls, CENTRAL dARK, Uncategorized

From New York Magazine’s “The Approval Matrix: Week of February 4, 2019”: “So it’s perfectly legal right now for developers to put 160-feet tall “mechanical voids” in their buildings to give apartments higher priced...
Out of this world!

Out of this world!

#votersagainstsupertalls, CENTRAL dARK, Friends of the UES

GOTHAMIST picks up where it left off last week in its expose on the City Planning Commission’s Zoning Text Amendment.  Journalist Elizabeth Kim notes that although this language may impact the design of 36 West 66th Street, to revise “the design of a...
LW! Makes More Headlines!

LW! Makes More Headlines!

#votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK

Our fight against supertall towers continues making headlines!     LANDMARK WEST! board chair Page Cowley, FAIA and her fellow Community Board 7 member, Peter Samton, FAIA penned an Op-Ed for ARCHITECTURAL RECORD. Living Tall, Too Tall...
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