#votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch
VARIETY reports that the sale of the American Broadcasting Company due to close this week (week of July 9th, 2018) will include a clause for ABC to lease-back space for up to five years. Given the quick pace of events it would take any owner time to prepare new...
#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK
Call it the ultimate first world problem…only it’s about being surpassed by the third world…literally.* In a media landscape dominated by children stuck in a cave, attacks on the free press and growing monopolies, it is always nice to turn to the...
#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, CENTRAL dARK, NYC, Upper West Side, UWS
Last night’s town hall meeting saw the community pushing Mayor Bill de Blasio on some issues close to our hearts–the impending rise of the supertall CENTRAL dARK Tower. Below is the press release from our neighbors, which shows de Blasio administration...
#votersagainstsupertalls, 200 Amsterdam, ABC Watch, Advocacy, CENTRAL dARK
UPDATE FROM THE MAYOR’S COMMUNITY AFFAIRS UNIT: “Thank you for your interest in our upcoming town hall with Mayor Bill de Blasio. Due to overwhelming intrest, we are no longer accepting RSVPs for this event.” Council Member Helen...
#votersagainstsupertalls, Landmarks at Risk
Gary Stern takes a look at the (sometimes) foreign, but always MEGA money in play buying up New York Real Estate. In conversation with LW! executive director Sean Khorsandi, and our colleagues at the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation, he asks...
#votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch
The New York Times has prepared a timely review of Larry Silverstein, lead of Silverstein Properties who celebrated the ribbon cutting of 3 World Trade Center earlier this week. The lengthy article “Larry Silverstein Flees the ‘Old Fogeys’...
