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City Plans To Rezone Far West Village
The city is moving to rezone a six-block area in the far West Village, a victory for local preservation groups and a potential obstacle for developers in the area. The rezoning would affect buildings...
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Apartment Towers Coming to Penn Station Wasteland?
In a move that could help revive debate about the future of midtown west's grungy office stock, Edison Properties wants to build a 407-unit residential tower in the area directly south of Penn Station,...
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Century 21, Tourist Horde's Favorite Department Store, Expanding Just in Time...
Big time. It may be the worst shopping experience after the Trader Joe’s in Union Square. Still, when Century 21 is good, it’s really good. Dress shoes, bow ties, and some of the best clearance deals...
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Is the Zuccotti Park Cleanup Really a Trap for Occupy Wall Street?
Don't worry, we've got it. (Brookfield) The protestors occupying Wall Street/Zuccotti Park are worried about the new plans to clean up the park tomorrow, calling it an eviction notice. The mayor showed...
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UWS Fights Back Against Chain Stores
Shrink to fit. (wilm23/Flickr) Maybe the Fulton Mall just needs some zoning changes to save its mom and pop shops. That's what they're doing on the Upper West Side, tired of all the giant Duane Reades...
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In the Shadow of Four Towers: A Day at the Parks NYU Wants to Bury
Paradise? (Steven Duffy) The arguments for NYU’s, creatively named, “2031” expansion have been predictable in their rhetoric: You shouldn’t—and, frankly, can’t—stand in the way of change. The majority...
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Another Reminder of Just How Terrible Brooklyn’s Would-Be Park Avenue Has Gotten
Really. Really? (kerry!/Flickr) Much as we want to be, The Observer is no real fan of the transformation of the Fourth Avenue from grotty auto shops to shoddy "luxury" apartment buildings. As usual,...
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For Once, Zoning Is Sexy! Judge Defends Strippers and Smut Shillers
How you doin'? We often think that zoning codes, the string theory of our cities big and small, as shaping every inch of the built environment. But really, zoning is more like the mold into which we...
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Foster + Partners Wins 425 Park Sweepstakes, Creating New Midtown Landmark...
Bring it up. (dBox/L&L Holdings) Who needs the Midtown East Rezoning to transform the area when you have intrepid developers and unlikely circumstances? O.K., so both of those are super-rare, so...
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Rise of the Sliver Hotel: Why Blah Buildings Are Blighting Midtown
The architects of the neighboring pre-wars probably didn't imagine their lot line walls would still be exposed 100 years later (TripAdvisor) Standing on Sixth Avenue and peering west down 26th Street,...
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