is paying off really big for developers, who are slowly turning it into midtown.
Ex-Mayor De Blasio aggressively and duplicitously pushed through the district’s upzoning in 2018 to please his developer funders, and local Councilmember Rivera reneged on her campaign promise to oppose upzoning without landmark and rent-regulation protections. Then her craven, compromised fellow members of the City Council waved it on though.
The NYC Landmarks “Preservation” Commission, disabled and coopted by De Blasio, has obstinately refused landmark designation for the district, despite the National Register of Historic Places citing it as highly significant.
Our municipal media is itself so much in the tank for big finance and development that it has barely covered this issue at all.
But Village Preservation is urging us to sign a petition to the City supporting designation.