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    City Council Overwhelmingly Passes Tenant Harassment Bills Package

    Tenant Protections  •  Citywide

    Council Member Helen Rosenthal Gets a “High-Five from a Constituent. Image credit: NYCC/William Alatriste

    City Council passes a package of bills intended to strengthen protections for tenants subject to harassment by landlords. Since the mid-2000s and largely due to the housing bubble, predatory equity has become a metastasis on the New York City housing market. The expulsion of both rent stabilized and market-rate tenants is accomplished through means both legal, by abusing technical loopholes in State law, and illegal, by dangerous living conditions and intimidation. (read more…)

    Tags : Council Member Antonio Reynoso, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Council Member Mark Levine, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito
    Date:08/11/2017
    Category : City Council
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    Tenant Harassment Bills Package to be Considered by Committee

    Tenant Protections  •  Citywide

    Chair of the Committee on Housing and Buildings, Council Member Jumaane Williams. Image credit: NYCC/William Alatriste

    City Council Committee to hear testimony on a package of bills intended to strengthen protections for tenants subject to harassment by landlords. Since the mid-2000s and largely due to the housing bubble, predatory equity has become a metastasis on the New York City housing market. The expulsion of both rent stabilized and market-rate tenants is accomplished through means both legal, by abusing technical loopholes in State law, and illegal, by dangerous living conditions and intimidation. (read more…)

    Tags : Council Member Antonio Reynoso, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, Council Member Margaret Chin, Council Member Mark Levine, Council Member Rosie Mendez, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito
    Date:04/11/2017
    Category : City Council
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    Subcommittee Lambastes City for Withdrawing Beneficial Theater Contribution Increase

    Theater Subdistrict Fund  •  Theater Subdistrict, Manhattan

    Image Credit: Wikipedia

    The City’s Planning Department withdraws its proposal to increase contributions to the Theater Fund, which supports local, off-Broadway theater productions. On February 27, 2017, the Department of Planning withdrew its application to raise the contribution rate for air rights sales within Manhattan’s Special Theater Subdistrict right before the City Council’s Zoning Subcommittee was set to vote on the issue. The proposed text amendment would have instituted a higher contribution rate, established a floor sale price, altered the sale review process, and changed the parameters of the Theater Fund’s authorities. (read more…)

    Tags : City Planning Commission, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Council Member Donovan Richards, Theater Subdistrict Fund
    Date:03/01/2017
    Category : City Council
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    City Council Subcommittee Hears Testimony on the Rezoning of Water Street’s Privately Owned Public Space

    POPS  •  Lower Manhattan
    Proposed rezoning of the Water Street POPS. Image credit: Department of City Planning

    Proposed rezoning of the Water Street POPS. Image credit: Department of City Planning

    Council Members voiced concerns over the proposal’s provisions stripping the City Council of its review over future applications brought pursuant to the proposal. On May 4, 2016, the City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises held a public hearing on an application submitted by the Alliance for Downtown New York, the NYC Economic Development Corporation, and the Department of City Planning to amend the zoning text controlling the Water Street corridor in lower Manhattan. For CityLand’s previous coverage on the proposed rezoning of the Water Street POPS, click here.

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    Tags : Alliance for Downtown New York, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Council Member David G. Greenfield, Council Member Donovan Richards, Council Member Margaret Chin, Council Member Ritchie Torres, Jessica Lappin, Manhattan Community Board 1, Manhattan Community District 1, NYCEDC, POPS, Privately Owned Public Space, public plaza, Special Lower Manhattan District, the Department of City Planning, Water Street
    Date:05/27/2016
    Category : City Council
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    Ford Foundation Atrium and Doors to be Altered for Handicapped Access and Code Compliance

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  East Midtown, Manhattan
    Garden Landscape rendering. Image Credit: Gensler.

    Garden Landscape rendering. Image Credit: Gensler.

    Alterations part of larger renovations that will see greater handicapped accessibility, non-hierarchical office organization, creation of a visitor center, and space for associated non-profits. On April 19 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission considered and approved an application for work to the Ford Foundation Building, at 320 East 43rd Street in Manhattan. The 1967 building is an individual City landmark, and its atrium is also a designated interior landmark. The proposed work, which will alter the entrances, windows, and the atrium, was driven by programmatic needs, the necessity of code compliance, and handicapped accessibility. Currently, certain entrances to the building and portions of the garden are not handicapped-accessible. (read more…)

    Tags : Christabel Gough, Congress Member Carolyn Maloney, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Docomomo, Ford Foundation, Higgins Quasebarth, Historic Districts Council, Municipal Art Society, New York Landmark Conservancy, Studio Museum Harlem
    Date:05/03/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Neighborhood Coalition Proposal is Most Comprehensive Zoning Plan Ever Submitted by a Community Group

    ULURP Application  •  Upper East Side, Manhattan
    Council member Ben Kallos with Herndon Werth, a rent-stabilized tenant who refused to sell his home to developers. Image credit: The Office of Council member Ben Kallos

    Council member Ben Kallos with Herndon Werth, a rent-stabilized tenant who refused to sell his home to developers. Image credit: The Office of Council member Ben Kallos

    The proposal would protect neighborhood aesthetics with height caps on new developments and provide additional benefits to affected communities.  On January 21, 2016, the Department of City Planning received a zoning proposal from the East River Fifties Alliance, a neighborhood coalition led by City Council members Ben Kallos and Daniel Garodnick, which is the most comprehensive residential re-zoning proposal to ever be submitted by a community group. The proposal seeks to safeguard the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan from the construction of skyscrapers.  Council members Kallos and Garodnick, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and New York State Senator Liz Krueger are also co-applicants on the proposal, which can be found here.

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    Tags : Council Member Ben Kallos, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Department of City Planning, East River Fifties Alliance, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 6, Senator Liz Krueger, Upper East Side
    Date:01/27/2016
    Category : City Planning Commission
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