Feb 13, 2019 | #votersagainstsupertalls, CENTRAL dARK, Dept. of City Planning, REBNY, Zoning
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...
Feb 6, 2019 | #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 more...
Feb 5, 2019 | #votersagainstsupertalls, ABC Watch, CENTRAL dARK, Central Park
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...
Feb 5, 2019 | #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...
Feb 1, 2019 | #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...
Jan 30, 2019 | #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 (linked above) outlines what makes...
