Jun 3, 2016 | 361 Central Park West, Advocacy, Board of Standards and Appeals, Carrere and Hastings, First Church of Christ Scientist, Individual Landmark, When the Process Works, Zoning
VICTORY! Developers’ Speculative Development Project DENIED; New Hope for Landmark Church Today, the NYC Board of Standards & Appeals (BSA) did the right thing and voted to DENY the application for zoning variances threatening the former First Church of...
Mar 15, 2016 | Advocacy, Affordable Housing, City Council, City Hall, Dept. of City Planning, Landmarks at Risk, MIH-Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Preservation Under Fire, Zoning, ZQA-Zoning for Quality and Affordability
MAYOR DE BLASIO’S HEIGHT INCREASES WON’T IMPROVE QUALITY OR AFFORDABILITY* Yet, there is talk of a “deal” on sweeping citywide zoning changes Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) and reports that...
Feb 10, 2016 | Advocacy, City Council, City Hall, Dept. of City Planning, MIH-Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Zoning, ZQA-Zoning for Quality and Affordability
Beginning at 9:30 this morning, the City Council Committee on Zoning and Franchises began a hearing on the Department of City Planning and Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s proposal for ZQA, or more formally, Zoning for Quality and...
Dec 16, 2015 | Dept. of City Planning, MIH-Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, Zoning, ZQA-Zoning for Quality and Affordability
First the Good News: December weather is finally upon us! Now the Bad News: If you were like us, you were stuck freezing outside the City Planning Commission! 48-degree weather (felt like 44-degrees at the foot of Broadway!) greeted a long line of preservation and...
Aug 12, 2015 | 361 Central Park West, architecture, Board of Standards and Appeals, Carrere and Hastings, Central Park West, Individual Landmark, landmark, Landmarks at Risk, New York City, Upper West Side, Watch List, Zoning
Landmark West! wishes to comment on the application to the Board of Standards and Appeals for the conversion of the former First Church of Christ, Scientist (Carrère and Hastings, 1899-1903, an Individual Landmark designated in 1974) into a 39-unit residential...
May 26, 2015 | Preservation Under Fire, Watch List, Zoning
In March 2015, the City Planning Commission announced a massive citywide rezoning proposal that would raise height limits across the city and weaken hard-won neighborhood contextual zoning protections. The stated justification for such radical changes:...
