CITYDECEMBER 2010 center forLAND new york city law VOLUME 7, NUMBER 11 Highlights CITY COUNCIL Extell project modified . .165 HPD projects in East Village . .167 Brooklyn supportive housing . .168 BOARD OF STANDARDS & APPEALS East Tremont use variances . .169 LANDMARKS Beekman Place designation . .170 Meatpacking District project . .170 Ladies’ Mile project OK’d . .172 Tribeca project approved . .172 The Landmarks Preservation Commission considered Taconic Investment Partners LLC’s proposed Grand Street designations . .173 seven-story addition adjacent to the High Line in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. See story on page170. Image: Courtesy Morris Adjmi Architects . ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP. Freedom Place South. Brooklyn waterfront RFP . .173 CITY COUNCIL The 8.2-acre project site com- West Harlem bakery site RFEI . .173 prises the three remaining undevel- Text Amendments/Special Permits oped parcels of the Riverside South ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS Upper West Side, Manhattan development plan first approved Architect defeats NOV . .174 Massive Riverside Center by the City in 1992 to govern the Bryant Park contractor NOV . .174 mixed-use project modified redevelopment of the rail yards ex- tending from West 59th Street to COURT DECISIONS Developer agreed to fund larger on- West 72nd Street. To facilitate the site school and provide on-site af- project’s development, Extell sub- UES church ruling affirmed . .175 fordable housing . On December 8, mitted multiple applications in- ESDC criticized by court . .176 2010, the City Council’s Land Use Second Ave . subway claim . .176 cluding requests for modifications Committee modified Extell Devel- to height and setback requirements opment Company’s proposal to CITYLAND PROFILE and special permits for 1,800 below- develop a three million sq.ft. mixed- ground parking spaces. Douglas Durst . .177 use project on a site bounded by Extell will develop the five West 59th and West 61st Streets buildings along the site’s perimeter CHARTS and West End Avenue and Riverside with three towers lining the north DCP Pipeline . .167 Boulevard in Manhattan’s Upper side of West 59th Street. Riverside ULURP Pipeline . .168 West Side. The project, known as Center will provide 2.4 million sq.ft. BSA Pipeline . .170 Riverside Center, will include five of residential space and approxi- Landmarks Actions . .171 buildings, ranging in height from 31 mately 500,000 sq.ft. of office, hotel, Landmarks Pipeline . .173 to 44 stories; 2.75 acres of publicly and retail space, including a ground Citylaw org. New Decisions . .178– 79 accessible open space; and an on- floor car dealership. The proposal site public elementary school. Extell also includes a twenty percent af- will also extend West 60th Street and fordable housing (cont’d on page 167) December 2010 Volume 7 CITYLAND 165 COM M E NTARY The Center for New York City Law receives its first endowment grant The Center for New York City Law received excellent news in December 2010. The Steven and Sheila Aresty Foundation made a grant of $25,000 to endow a stipend for a summer intern to work at the Center for New York City Law. The recipient must be a second year law student who will, after the summer at the Center, continue through the following academic year to complete the work and writing assignment begun during the summer. The grant from the Aresty Foundation is the first grant received by the Center to be designated as endowment. The internship is to be named in honor of Sheila Murphy Aresty, a 1994 graduate of New York Law School who was the first City Law Fellow hired by the Center. The Center during her fellowship year had just been formed. During that year, the Center launched its first newsletter, CityLaw. Sheila co-authored the lead article in the very first issue of CityLaw, an article that detailed registration and reporting requirements for lobbyists. CityLaw is now in its seventeenth year, a lifetime for a newsletter. Sheila assisted in the creation and design of CityLaw, partici- pated in establishing the first CityLaw breakfasts, and, by her work, set the standard for the CityLaw Fellows who followed her in that position. After completing her fellowship year of 1994-95, Sheila began her legal career at the New York City Depart- ment of Investigation. She was promoted and subsequently moved to the Mayor’s Office of Contracts, where she was one of the first lawyers hired during a reorganization of that office led by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Sheila retired from the City to raise her young family with her husband Steven, but maintains a keen interest in New York City government and the Center for New York City Law. The internship in her name recognizes her interest in New York Law School, her loyalty to the Center for New York City Law, and her abiding interest in the integrity of New York City government. Ross Sandler CITYLAND Ross Sandler Eugene Travers ’10 Jesse Denno Professor of Law and Director, Marissa Fierz ’10 Staff Writer, Production Asst . The Center expresses appreciation to the Center for New York City Law Fellows Maryellen Philips Frank Berlen ’07 Lebasi Lashley Administrative Coordinator individuals and foundations supporting the Associate Director Art Director Frank St. Jacques ’11 Center and its work: The Steven and Sheila Aresty Managing Editor Petting Zoo Design Student Writer Foundation, Fund for the City of New York, Peter Schikler ’08 CityLand Editor The Durst Foundation, The Charina Endowment Fund, The Murray Goodgold Foundation, CITYLAND ADVISORY BOARD Jerry Gottesman, The Marc Haas Foundation and Kent Barwick Howard Goldman Frank Munger The Prospect Hill Foundation. Andrew Berman Jerry Gottesman Carol E. Rosenthal Molly Brennan David Karnovsky Michael T. Sillerman (ISSN 1551-711X) is published 11 times Albert K. Butzel Ross Moskowitz ’84 Paul D. 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Barnett ZONING TEXT AND MAP AMENDMENTS responded that the Inclusionary DCP South Jamaica Rezoning, QN Rezone 530 blocks to protect density; 110145ZMQ; Housing Program allows for units to txt. change to expand FRESH program 110146ZRQ be located off-site, but the distribu- SPECIAL PERMITS/OTHER ACTIONS tion had not been finalized. Brewer LPC 190 Grand Street, MN Landmark (190 Grand Street House) 110147HKM noted that the community was look- LPC 192 Grand Street, MN Landmark (192 Grand Street House) 110148HKM ing for more public access and that HPD 9 Second Avenue, MN UDAAP & dispo. to const. 12-story 110140HAM; relocating one of the buildings was bldg.; acq. two bldgs. for demolition 110141PQM still a “high priority.” The Subcom- Dinner Is Ready 84 Seventh Avenue, MN New enclosed cafe with 21 seats 110134ECM mittee’s vote was laid over to allow Soi 30 Inc. 430 Third Avenue, MN New enclosed cafe with 16 seats 110144ECM further negotiations. LPC 23 Beekman Place, MN Landmark (Paul Rudolph Apartments) 110150HKM When the Subcommittee re- Rose Assocs., Inc. 420 East 63rd Street, MN Renew spec. perm. for 290-space grg. 110143ZAM convened it was announced that the Liska NY Inc. 731 Southern Boulevard, BX Spec. perm. for 8-story, 57-unit bldg. 110154ZSX Sheldon Lobel PC project had been modified. Among LPC 1272 Ogden Avenue, BX Landmark (Union Reformed Church) 110149HKX the modifications, Extell agreed to Anton Developers 54-78 82nd Street, QN Reloc. easement for res. development 880710AMMQ Akerman Senterfitt increase the size of the school to LPC 89-31 161st Street, QN Landmark (Jamaica Chmbr. of Com.) 110135HKQ 100,000 sq.ft. and to build 135,000 LPC 146-21 Jamaica Avenue, QN Landmark (Jamaica Savings Bank) 110136HKQ sq.ft. of affordable housing on site. LPC 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, QN Landmark (QN General Court House) 110137HKQ The Subcommittee slightly reduced LPC 155-24 90th Avenue, QN Landmark (Grace Episcopal Church) 110138HKQ the massing of the proposed mid- LPC Ridgewood South, QN Landmark (Ridgewood South HD) 110139HKQ block tower along West 59th Street Block 7207 Corp. 23 Zarelli Court, SI Cert. to subdivide 110132RCR and shifted its footprint 25 feet to Crown Jewel, Inc. 5854 Amboy Road, SI Cert to subdivide one lot into three 110153RCR Calvanico Assoc.