Rudin Management presented revised plan for residential component. Having approved the design of a new St. Vincent’s hospital on the west side of Seventh Avenue between West 12th and 13th Streets, Landmarks considered an associated residential development for the east side of the avenue. The development would occupy land currently home to St. Vincent’s hospital complex in the Greenwich Village Historic District. When first presented, the residential component garnered significant criticism. Local residents, elected officials, and preservationists opposed the height and bulk of the proposed tower along Seventh Avenue, as well as the destruction of historically significant buildings within the hospital complex. 5 CityLand 61 (May 15, 2008).

At the hearing, Rudin Management president Bill Rudin testified that it reduced massing of the Seventh Avenue tower in its new plan. Rudin then emphasized that the new plan would preserve and reuse four historically significant structures, the Nurses’ Residence and the Spellman, Smith, and Raskob buildings. The company would also work with P.S. 41 to create a new elementary school. (read more…)