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By: Curbed
15Jul2010Today in the countdown to the wrecking ball showing up at the Hotel Pennsylvania: zoning approvals! The City Planning Commission approved the variances needed for developer Vornado to replace the shabby loved/hated Midtown hotel with 15 Penn Plaza, t...
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23Jun2010The City Planning Commission approved controversial Queens development Flushing Commons today, sending the $850 million mixed-use project to the City Council for the next round of debate. If all goes as planned, a big parking lot will become 600 apar...
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7Jun2010The City Planning Commission voted 13-0 in favor of plans for the New Domino development today, sending the controversial conversion of the old Williamsburg waterfront sugar refinery into a 2,200-unit mini village to the City Council. The area's coun...
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24May2010EAST VILLAGE—What good reason could we possibly have to bring up the St. Ann's abomination that is NYU's 26-story Fourth Avenue dorm? Here it is: The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation reports that the City Planning Commissi...
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23Apr2010Vanity Fair has a mini-profile on Amanda Burden—city planning commissioner, sometime socialite and link in a prominent family chain—calling her, "arguably the most influential figure in New York City government, next to Mayor B...
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22Mar2010NYU's Furman Center is releasing what it calls the first statistical analysis of the Bloomberg administration's rezoning policy, and the analysts were surprised by the lack of new housing created by the measures. That's because 86% of the rezoned lot...
