is more new buildings of greater height, but apparently something called the East Midtown Steering Committee, connected to the NYC Planning Commission, is trying to push through new zoning to allow just that in an already monstrously overdeveloped neighborhood. To do so they’ve tried to invent a crisis that at this point is even less than hypothetical: at some time in the future, the area’s office buildings might not be considered posh and new enough. Therefore we must encourage a new era of leviathans.
This is, of course, transparently balderdash.
Winnie Hu in The New York Times makes the mistake of incorporating the Steering Committee’s sales pitch into the body of her article without offering us a independent perspective on their claims. But the real focus of her article is the way that Greenacre Park on East 51st Street is projected to be covered in shadow from the supersized buildings to come. A NYC Planning Commission flack offers a limp, boilerplate denial.
Sounds like the latest NYC real estate boondoggle.
Hu’s piece is a must read.