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Mo’ MA: Museum’s Inspired, Insipid Tower Returns
The Death Spire. (Atelier Jean Nouvel) New York City may have brought down Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but another torrid Frenchman will not be held up by the likes of us. Jean Nouvel, winner of the...
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Amanda Burden: Shorter MoMA Tower ‘Is Glorious’
Amanda approves. It was Amanda Burden who stopped the MoMA Tower, giving Jean Nouvel’s 1,250-foot spire a haircut, and it is up to her if the project will ever snake its way onto the skyline. As The...
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Rudin’s St. Vincent Project Gets Green Light from Planning Commission
All smiles. (PMcM) Earlier this afternoon, a die-hard group of developers, activists and real estate enthusiasts gathered at the New York Department of City Planning for a much anticipated meeting. In...
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AIDS Memorial Divides Village People: Tiny Triangle Tears Community Between...
Reflecting on an AIDS memorial. (AIDS Memorial Coalition) Happy hour had just ended at the Stonewall Inn on Monday night (2-for-1 well, beer and wine). Rob (dirty martini) and Steve (Budweiser) were...
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NY-Phew: City Planning Commission Approves NYU’s Village Expansion With Some...
Those towers? Not quite so big. (NYU) Now the NYU plan is perfect, at least in the eyes of planning potentate Amanda Burden and the rest of the rest of the City Planning Commission. About an hour ago,...
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Scott Stringer Says City Planning Backpedaled, and Other NYU Rezoning Reactions
The zoning-busting Zipper Building. (NYU Local) The reactions have been rolling in to the City Planning Commission’s near-unanimous approval of NYU’s Greenwich Village expansion plan from yesterday....
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Good News and Bad News for the High Line as Chelsea Market Expansion Approved...
Do the setback! (Studios Architecture) The earlier 10th Avenue addition, sans setback. (Studios Architecture) Much of the debate around the expansion of the Chelsea Market has centered around not the...
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Keeping It Contextual: City Planning Commission Approves Rezonings in West...
It was a busy day at the City Planning Commission Wednesday. Not only did the commissioners debate the upzoning of the Chelsea Market, which they unanimously approved, but they also approved the...
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West Harlem Rezoning Still Too Big, Say Locals Hoping Council Will Fight Back
Does a big street call for big buildings? (Bridge & Tunnel Club) Neighbors want to protect historic buildings like these. (Bridge & Tunnel Club) Recently, the City Planning Commission approved...
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Landmarks Commission Cancels Weekly Meeting, Planning Commission Hopes to Be...
Not in session. (MAS) Update 10/31:The City Planning Commission announced last night that today’s meeting has been cancelled. The mayor may be sending city employees to work today, as he did yesterday....
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BIG News: Planning Commission Approves Durst’s 57th Street Pyramid Apartments
A tweaked north side for Durst/Fetner’s 625 West 57th Street. (Durst/Fetner) Big, pointy apartments. (Durst/Fetner) When Douglas Durst began deciding, yet again, what to do with the almost block-long...
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Evicting the Garden
The good news is that the City Planning Commission does not agree with those who want Madison Square Garden to disappear from its current location within 10 years. The bad news is that the commission...
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Midtown East Rezoning: Now With More Housing! (and Air Rights)
The area north of Grand Central Terminal still has the highest office rents in the city, but the building stock is aging. The new Midtown East rezoning proposal is out—“A” Applications, in Department...
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Occupying Crown Heights: Protestors Try to Change Rezoning With Late-Breaking...
A rezoning would concentrate future developments along Franklin and Bedford Avenues. The West Crown Heights rezoning has been in the making for nearly a decade, and Community Board 8—which initiated...
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Wheel Love: City Planning Commission Approves Staten Island Ferris Wheel
As the world turns… (New York Wheel) While most development plans are forced to go around and around and around, re-tooling and tweaking until they’ve been beaten into some ULURP-ified shape that...
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Rival Clergy Group Opposes de Blasio’s Affordable Housing Plan
Three members of the clergy signed both letters—supporting and opposing Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan.
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De Blasio Commissioners Face Off With Protesters Over Brooklyn Rezoning Plan
Objectors chanted "this plan is not for us" as Vicki Been and Carl Weisbrod made their case for rezoning East New York.
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MTA Delaying Affordable Housing Construction at Brooklyn Hub, Mayor’s Office...
"We would anticipate that, in light of the city's commitment to the MTA, that the MTA would help address city priorities, Broadway Junction being very high on the list," Carl Weisbrod said.
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Pols Want City Council to Handle Deed Restrictions Post-Rivington Scandal
Borough President Gale Brewer and Councilwoman Margaret Chin want deed restrictions to undergo Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.
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City Planning Chairman Becomes Latest de Blasio Administration Official to Exit
Just weeks after Gladys Carrión's resignation, Carl Weisbrod is headed for the door.
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