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How the DCP Zoning Text Amendment Stacks UP
Department of City Planning (DCP) hearing on VOIDS Zoning Text Amendment WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13th, beginning at 10am 120 Broadway, Concourse Level LANDMARK WEST! continues our efforts to stop out-scaled development by closing developer loopholes. The Department of City...
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Courts side with Developer
Although courts believe that the zoning lot for 200 Amsterdam Avenue has been erroneously assembled, they courts stopped short of revoking the permits but directed the City agencies--the DOB (which is twice on record saying they never should have issued the permits)...
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Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal Lowers the Roof on Excess
New York State Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal has introduced state legislation A.5026 aimed at closing the mechanical void loophole. Expanding on an existing zoning text amendment proposed by the New York City Department of City Planning-which is working its way...
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Community Boards Consider City Planning text on VOIDS
Mark your Calendars! Key Dates to Curb Inappropriate Development LANDMARK WEST! and our colleagues FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts have been pushing back against the spread of Billionaire's Row into our residential districts. Now, reinforced by a...
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If you can’t stand the heat, lower your building
Appearing online with sidebar clickbait for how 'Cursed' Pete Davidson nixes another Ariana Grande Tattoo and Paris Hilton braves the snow in a sleeveless summer dress, The New York Post writes REBNY furious that city is going ahead with new zoning lawsan article...
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Higher Power
But some wonder about the ethics of a religious institution being such a power player in the world of New York real estate. The New York Times features The Wall Street Church with the $6 Billion Portfolio this morning. Authored by Jane Margolies, it will be in the...
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This isn’t a Game
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 more...
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THE GUARDIAN: Anything but “Super”
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 Towers' of New York's...
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Mechanical Voids Are Highbrow/Despicable
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 views?" Wethinks they're looking at you, 50 W....
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Out of this world!
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 160-foot tall...
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