Credit: FX Fowle Architects

After City Council modifications, Rudin returned to Landmarks for approval to enlarge and reuse Reiss Pavilion. On March 28, 2012, the City Council modified the Rudin Management Company’s plan to redevelop the former St. Vincent’s Hospital Complex on Seventh Avenue in the Greenwich Village Historic District. The modified mixed-use residential project includes a new residential tower along Seventh Avenue, five townhouses along West 11th Street, and the preservation of the Reiss Pavilion on West 12th Street, which was slated for demolition. In addition, Rudin reduced the number of residential units from 450 to 350 units, and the size of an underground parking garage.

The project, which originally included a new hospital building for St. Vincent’s on the site of the O’Toole Building, has undergone multiple revisions over its four years of public review. The saga began in 2008, when Rudin and St. Vincent’s Hospital sought Landmarks approval for a joint proposal to redevelop the site. The plan included replacing the 1964 O’Toole Building on Seventh Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets across the street from St. Vincent’s Hospital with a new (read more…)