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Another Look at the Quite Possibly Insane Midtown Skyline of the Future
Now that’s a skyline. (William Weber/Curbed) How does it compare to today? Back when we did our big report one what the Bloomberg administration has in store for Midtown East under an in-the-works...
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Hudson Square Rising: Last Corner of Undeveloped Manhattan Starts Rezoning...
The neighborhood New York forgot. (Hudson Square Connection) Trinity Church has controlled vast swaths of Lower Manhattan real estate for more than three centuries, since the Queen of England deeded...
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Midtown Slowdown: Councilman Garodnick Asks City to Take Its Time on Rezoning...
Too big, too fast? (DCP) Easy does it. That is the message from Councilman Dan Garodnick, echoing concerns of two Midtown community boards, that the Bloomberg administration is moving too fast in its...
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Circling Hudson Square: Everybody Wants a Piece of the Last Untouched...
Lofty goals. (Trinity Real Estate) Last Friday night on far west Spring Street, the Ear Inn was crowded as usual. A mix of neighborhood regulars and happy-hour-indulging co-workers from the nearby loft...
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City Planning Says It Is Not Rushing Midtown Rezoning, Though It Has Good...
They want more to look at. (Getty) Earlier this week, Councilman Dan Garodnick called on the Department of City Planning to slow down the planning for the new Midtown East rezoning that would add...
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No Vacancies: Union, Pols Push for Hotel Restrictions in Midtown East Rezoning
Holding out for hotels. (Getty) Everyone has been praying for the inclusion of churches and synagogues in the Midtown East rezoning, but no one has checked in on the situation of hotels yet. The...
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TF Cornerstone Looking to Build 45-Story Residential Tower on West 57th Street
A massing diagram from 606 West 57th Street’s rezoning application. Back in 2011, AvalonBay abandoned plans to build a 44-story, 700-unit rental building on the block south of West 57th Street between...
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Much Ado About Nothing? Midtown East Rezoning Not All That Grand
The Municipal Art Society is worried that the Midtown East upzoning would allow development that would block views of the Chrysler Building, among other landmarks. Based on the arguments made by those...
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Astoria Cove Unleashed: 1,535 New Homes Proposed at Halletts Point
Massing diagram of the Astoria Cove project, from the environmental assessment statement. The Halletts Point redevelopment proposal to bring 2,644 apartments to a forlorn peninsula of the Queens...
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Who Will Be New York’s Next Chief City Planner? And Does It Matter?
Who will follow in Amanda Burden’s (very stylish) footsteps? With the New York City mayor’s race not even past the Democratic primary, it’s a bit early to be handicapping the city’s next chief city...
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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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Bill de Blasio Appoints Carl Weisbrod City Planning Commission Chair
Carl Weidbrod at his appointment press conference. Mayor Bill de Blasio today appointed Carl Weisbrod, the co-chair of his transition team, to be the new chair of the City Planning Commission. Mr....
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De Blasio Administration Targets Outer Borough Neighborhoods for Development
Mayor Bill de Blasio with Carl Weisbrod, the director of the Department of City Planning. Are the next hot neighborhoods East New York, Flushing West and Cromwell-Jerome? The de Blasio administration...
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Council Approves Bill to Revamp Deed Restriction Process After Rivington Fiasco
The City Council is set to pass a bill reforming the deed restriction process after the controversial removal of the Rivington House deed.
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New York City has three million immigrants and more than 200 languages are spoken in the five boroughs.
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Faulty Towers: Midtown Needs a Makeover, with Twice as Tall Towers, But Can...
It was but one line in Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s State of the City address in January, but it could prove to be one of the biggest of his dozen years in office. “In the area around Grand Central,...
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West Harlem Shuffle: Scott Stringer Approves Low-Rise Rezoning He Called for...
Back in 2007, in order to win his vote for Columbia’s contentious Manhattanville rezoning, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer got the city to agree to rezone the blocks north of the new...
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Bulldogs! Might Some Entitled Yalies Torpedo Plan to Pedestrianize Vanderbilt...
The knives are already drawn for a proposal that might not even happen, a proposed closure of Vanderbilt Avenue to cars. The mayor supports it anyway, and when the City Planning Commission unveils the...
View ArticleHow About Another Empire State Building or Two? City Outlines Mega Midtown...
It’s the moment developers, planning geeks, and perhaps the entire city without knowing it, has been waiting for all year: the unveiling of the city’s plans, first hinted at in the mayor’s State of the...
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Actually Developers and the City Are Not Competing for Midtown East...
Yesterday, super-scribe Steve Cuozzo had a really smart explainer of the Midtown East rezoning (it was almost as smart as ours). There was one point he made, and picked up elsewhere, that was not...
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