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    Sanitation’s four marine transfer stations approved


    City Council  •  Site Selection  •  Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens

    Council unable to override Mayor’s veto. The proposed sites of three marine waste transfer stations were approved after the City Council failed to get sufficient votes to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto.

    The Department of Sanitation had sought separate site selection approvals through ULURP applications to construct four new marine transfer stations. The four transfer stations were a component of Mayor Bloomberg’s 20-year Solid Waste Management Plan, which at the time of the applications was still pending approval before the City Council.

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    Tags : East 91st Transfer Station, Hamilton Avenue Transfer Station, marine transfer stations, North Shore Transfer Station, South/West Brooklyn Transfer Stations
    Date: 07/15/2005
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    Signs ok’ed for Rockefeller Center’s new observation deck


    City Council  •  Rezoning  •  Rockefeller Center, Manhattan

    Full Council approved zoning amendment granting special authority to Planning Commission Chair. On June 23, 2005, the City Council unanimously approved an amendment to the zoning resolution allowing the Chair of the Planning Commission to authorize the use of illuminated signs in lots occupied by a landmark. The amended zoning resolution applied only to the Fifth Avenue Subdistrict of the Special Midtown District, and impacts the New York Public Library, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and St. Thomas Church in addition to Rockefeller Center. Under the approved text, Landmarks must approve the signs before the Commission’s Chair can approve.

    Rockefeller Center sought to place 16 illuminated signs at four locations: the entrance to Channel Gardens, Atlas Court, and two internal locations in Rockefeller Plaza. The signs would inform visitors of the soon-to-be-reopened observation roof on the 67th, 69th and 70th floors of 30 Rockefeller Plaza and upcoming Plaza events. Retail advertising would be prohibited. The kiosks would replicate the kiosks that were located in Rockefeller Plaza until the early 1980’s when the observation roof was closed.

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    Tags : Atlas Court, Channel Gardens, Fifth Avenue Subdistrict, Rockefeller Center Signs, Rockefeller Plaza
    Date: 07/15/2005
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    General Motors Plaza renovations approved


    City Council  •  Text Amendment  •  Midtown, Manhattan

    Redesign will feature a glass cube in the center of the plaza and a more accessible public space. On June 23, 2005, the City Council approved a text amendment to the Special Midtown District allowing renovations to the General Motors building plaza, located at 767 Fifth Avenue between East 59th and East 58th Streets. The text amendment was necessary to alter the street wall and retail continuity requirements, which require that larger developments be built at the street wall.

    The most prominent feature in the plaza’s redesign will be the construction of a 32-foot transparent glass cube in the center of the plaza fronting Fifth Avenue. The cube will contain an elevator and a glass stairway and will serve as an entryway to a 25,000-square-foot underground retail space. Other renovations to the Fifth Avenue frontage include regrading the plaza to lower its overall height, and adding two reflecting pools, tables and chairs, trees and planters, and a wide stone ledge around its perimeter for added seating. Renovations will also take place on the Madison Avenue side of the building, which will lose its open area when the retail space is extended out to the property line.

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    Tags : 767 Fifth Avenue, General Motors Plaza, Manhattan Community Board 5
    Date: 07/15/2005
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    High Line/Chelsea Rezoning Gets Go Ahead


    City Council  •  Rezoning  •  Chelsea, Manhattan

    Rezoning crafted to transform High Line into elevated open space; no mandatory affordable housing requirement set, despite community’s request. On June 23, 2005, the City Council approved the complicated rezoning and land acquisition plan for West Chelsea that has as its central goal the transformation of the High Line, an elevated rail line, into a 1.45-mile open space.

    The approved rezoning impacts the area between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues from West 17th to West 30th Streets and on West 16th through West 18th Streets, east of Tenth Avenue to the mid-block. The area’s zoning had been M1-5 manufacturing except for the West 23rd Street corridor, which was rezoned in 1999 for commercial uses. Under the approved rezoning, only a small portion remains zoned manufacturing, in order to preserve lots for additional Chelsea art galleries, with the remaining blocks permitting commercial and residential uses.

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    Tags : High Line Transfer Corridor, Manhattan Community Board 4, West Chelsea/High Line
    Date: 07/15/2005
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    Lincoln Center to enliven West 65th


    City Council  •  Map Amendment/Acquisition  •  Lincoln Center, Manhattan

    Changes include street level restaurants and retail, new film center, and expansion of Juilliard and Alice Tully Hall. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts sought approval for the large-scale redesign by New York firms Diller Scofidio+Renfro and Fox and Fowle Architects of its West 65th Street frontage, requiring an amendment to the zoning text and map and acquisition of an easement over City property.

    Under the plan, Lincoln Center’s three parking and loading entrances and the loading berth on West 65th Street will be eliminated and the pedestrian bridge spanning the street removed. Access to the Lincoln Center Garage will be gained by a tunnel to be constructed beneath the street, connecting the Lincoln Center Garage, on the south side of West 65th, to the Rose Building garage. With the changes, Lincoln Center will use its West 65th Street frontage as main entries to its venues.

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    Tags : Diller Scofidio+Renfro, Fox and Fowle Architects, Lincoln Center
    Date: 07/15/2005
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    Court dismisses late challenge to Museum’s renovation plans


    Court Decisions  •  Parks/Landmarks  •  Upper East Side, Manhattan

    Opponents filed claim 31 months too late. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which leases the land in Central Park from Parks under an 1871 directive of the state legislature, proposed to renovate the museum in 2000 and presented a detailed plan to Parks and Landmarks. The plan called for a new loading dock, the addition of public cafeterias and new auditoriums. Parks Commissioner Henry Stern signed off on the plan in December 2002, noting that the proposal would not expand the museum beyond its existing footprint, and Landmarks approved in early 2001. Due to September 11th, the Museum scaled back its plans, reducing the proposed addition from 200,000 to 40,000 sq.ft. and abandoning the loading dock plan.

    After the Museum started work, the Metropolitan Museum Historic District Coalition, a group of Upper East Side residents concerned about the renovation’s potential traffic, pollution and safety problems, sent a letter to the Museum and the City, complaining that the Museum’s renovation work violated a long-standing commitment against expansion onto additional Parks land. The Museum responded by letter in July of 2003.

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    Tags : 2005 NY Slip Op 04344, In re Metropolitan Museum Historic District Coalition v.De Montebello, Metropolitan Museum Historic District Coalition, Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Date: 06/15/2005
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