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Development Battles: Flushing Commons, the controversial mixed-use Queens...

By: Curbed

28Jul2010

Flushing Commons, the controversial mixed-use Queens megaproject, has gotten its first thumbs-up, from the City Council's zoning and franchises subcommittee and land use committee. The full City Council is set to vote tomorrow afternoon, so we expect...

Development Battles: Riverside Center Gets Official Community Board Thumbs-Down

By: Curbed

23Jul2010

Community Board 7 has finished its completely non-binding review of Extell's Riverside Center, the proposed megaproject that will turn a parking lot into a 2,500-unit development with a hotel, retail, water scrim, school, and more. And CB 7's verdict...

CurbedWire: NYU Gets an Angry Letter; 'Burg's 34 Berry Unveils Penthouses

By: Curbed

15Jul2010

GREENWICH VILLAGE—It begins. Or rather, it continues. Community Board 2 has issued a press release and open letter directed at NYU, admonishing the school for its neighborhood-bullying 2031 expansion plan and for ignoring the recommendations...

Arrested Development: Developer Wants to Downsize Stalled LES Building

By: Curbed

14Jul2010

The CurbedWire alarm was sounded way back in April 2007 regarding construction going on across the street from the Lower East Side's Seward Park. Back then a tipster wrote: "Does anyone know anything about the 13 story junky condo building...

Development Battles: Small Crowd, Big Anger at Landmarks Commission's Mosque Hearing

By: Curbed

14Jul2010

Yesterday our humble little Landmarks Preservation Commission got involved in what's become an international story—the proposal to tear down a 9/11-scarred former Burlington Coat Factory store at 45-47 Park Place and replace it with a 15-sto...

Development Battles: Decade-Long Fight Over UWS Building Incredibly Not Over

By: Curbed

14Jul2010

A proposed 17-unit development at 330 West 86th Street was finally approved by the Board of Standards and Appeals in April after 11 years (!) in court system purgatory. The delay was sparked by a lawsuit from a neighboring 15-story...

Development Battles: It might be death by delays...

By: Curbed

13Jul2010

It might be death by delays for the controversial Broadway Triangle plan on the Williamsburg/Bed-Stuy border. A judge has ordered the city to prepare "reams of housing demographic data" to counter claims by opponents that the affordable hou...