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    New York Law School Hosts Open Community Meeting on the Future of Tribeca Following the Pandemic

    COVID-19 Recovery  •  Webinar

    Panelists discuss options on how to organize and plan for Tribeca’s future post pandemic. Image credit: CityLand

    Panel welcomed small business owners, residents, and other interested parties for a discussion regarding Tribeca and the neighborhood’s ongoing economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.  On March 4th, New York Law School’s Dean Anthony Crowell published an open letter in the Tribeca Citizen that discussed the economic impact of the pandemic on the Tribeca community and NYLS’s commitment to helping the neighborhood navigate its recovery following Covid-19. Dean Crowell wrote: (read more…)

    Tags : Community Boards, COVID-19, COVID-19 Recovery, New York Law School, small businesses, Tribeca
    Date:04/01/2021
    Category : Events
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    City Planning Commission Hears Application for Building Addition in Tribeca Historic District

    Special Permit  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

    Diagram shows proposed additions for 51 White Street. Image Credit: NYC CPC

    Building next to unique synagogue will have two additional stories and mezzanine. On November 14, 2018, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing for a special permit application for 51 White Street in Tribeca, Manhattan. The special permit would allow for the addition of two stories to the top of the building and the construction of a mezzanine between the first and second floor. The building has been vacant since 2016 but formerly had a ground floor retail tenant and twelve residential apartments on the other floors. (read more…)

    Tags : City Planning Commission, Tribeca, Tribeca East Historic District
    Date:12/06/2018
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    Tenant Waived Right to File Challenge Against Loft Board

    Loft Board  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

    329 Greenwich Street in Manhattan. Image Credit: CityLaw.

    Loft tenant filed a petition to annul a New York City Loft Board’s amended final determination that the fourth floor consisted of two separate and distinct apartment units, claiming he was the occupant of the entire floor. SMC Associates, the owner of a loft at 329 Greenwich Street, filed plans to legalize two units on the fourth floor of the building. Longtime tenant Stephen Grant challenged the legalization plan, claiming that the space on the fourth floor was actually only one unit, not two. (read more…)

    Tags : Greenwich Street, Loft Board, Tribeca
    Date:04/04/2017
    Category : Court Decisions
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    Mayor Bill de Blasio Announces New Crane Safety Plan, Effective Immediately

    Crane Safety  •  Citywide
    View of Worth Street from New York Law School. Image credit: CityLand

    View of Worth Street from New York Law School. Image credit: CityLand

    New plan subjects crane operators to additional safety regulations and increased fines for non-compliance.  On February 7, 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a four-prong safety plan to be taken by large crane operators.  The new set of safety measures arose in response to a fatal crane collapse incident, which occurred on February 5, 2016 in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan.

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    Tags : Council Member Margaret Chin, department of buildings, Department of Transportation, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 1, Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York Law School, Tribeca
    Date:02/09/2016
    Category : Department Of Buildings
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    HDC Identifies Six Preservation Priorities for 2013

    Historic Preservation  •  Citywide

    Advocacy group selects areas in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island as meriting preservation attention in 2013. The Historic Districts Council announced its “Six to Celebrate” list of preservation priorities on January 3, 2013. The areas identified by HDC consist of the Bronx Parks System, Manhattan’s East Village/Lower East Side and Tribeca neighborhoods, Brooklyn’s Greenpoint and Sunset Park neighborhoods, and Harrison Street in Staten Island.

    The six areas were chosen from applications submitted by neighborhood groups around the city. The selected preservation targets will be commemorated at an event held by HDC on January 29, 2013. (read more…)

    Tags : Bronx Park System, East Village/Lower East Side, Greenpoint, Harrison Street Historic District, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Sunset Park, Tribeca
    Date:01/10/2013
    Category : Historic Districts Council
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    Landmarks Declines to Designate Heavily Altered Federal-Era Rowhouse as an Individual Landmark

    Decalendaring  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

    177 West Broadway

    Early 1800s rowhouse on West Broadway had undergone extensive ground-floor reconstruction and gained an additional floor. On June 26, 2012, Landmarks declined to designate a three-story Federal-style rowhouse at 177 West Broadway in Tribeca as an individual landmark. The rowhouse was built circa 1802 as a two-story building. It is one of the neighborhood’s earliest structures, and one of the few remaining Federal-style buildings in Manhattan. The building served as private residence in its early years and, according to Landmarks, also served as a brothel for a period of time. The building is currently occupied by a ground-floor pet store and actor Harvey Keitel’s production company. The building retains its original Flemish-bond brick and splayed lintels at the second floor. The existing third floor of the building was added in the mid-1800s, and the ground-floor infill is non-historic after undergoing extensive alterations.

    At Landmarks’s hearing in June 2010, Attorney Valerie Campbell, representing Shiloh Company LLC, which owns the building, opposed designation. Campbell argued that the heavily altered building did not merit designation because it retains only a “single one-story swath of original brick,” and lacks many of the features commonly associated with the Federal style.

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    Tags : Decalendaring, Federal-era rowhouse, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Tribeca
    Date:06/28/2012
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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