As Village Preservation reported in 2021, State Senator Hoylman-Sigal didn’t do nearly as much as he could have to stop the unadulterated plunder of our city engendered by that year’s infamous Soho-Noho-Chinatown upzoning hustle.
Now Hoylman-Sigal has signaled his acquiescence to a developer-run city by advocating for the lifting of the FAR density cap and his CO-SPONSORING the Tech Bros bills to strip religious properties of landmark protection.
I recently had a conversation with a staffer in Sen. Hoylman-Sigal’s office who insisted that lifting the density cap wouldn’t result in overiding height limits. He mansplained to me that I had it all wrong. In reality he wasn’t telling the truth, as I pointed out to him. When you lift the density restrictions in a city as logjammed as NYC, you have only one way to go–up.
Our pols think that we’re stupid.