[NYguy]

Meanwhile, as expected, the looneys at CB4 voted against the casino proposal...


https://nypost.com/2025/01/07/us-new...mmunity-board/

$12B casino complex in NY’s Hudson Yards rejected by community board: ‘Reeks of greed and disregard’






By Carl Campanile
Jan. 7, 2025

Community Board 4 — which represents the Hudson Yards neighborhood — voted unanimously Monday night against approving a zoning change to allow the project by Related Companies and Wynn to proceed.

Under the city’s Uniformed Land Use Procedure, the local board has a right to weigh in on the zoning change, though the vote is advisory.

.....Joshua David, co-founder of The High Line and former member of CB4, testified that the project “reeks of greed and disregard for the community.”

“A carefully planned mixed-use neighborhood is wiped out for a garish Las Vegas-style monstrosity that has no place on Manhattan’s West Side,” said David, who has lived in Chelsea for 38 years.

“If we wanted to live in Las Vegas,” he said, “we would live in Las Vegas.”

The plan features an 80-story tower overlooking the Hudson River that would house a gaming facility and hotel.

Office buildings, apartment towers and a spacious 5.6-acre park would surround the gleaming casino skyscraper.

In its letter to City Planning Director Dan Garodnick, CB4 said the project slashes about 4,000 planned residential units and the environmental impact statement showed “catastrophic traffic and air quality impacts on our neighborhoods…. This proposal simply isn’t a fit for this site.”

Friends of The High Line executive director Alan van Capelle applauded the board’s rejection of the casino complex that “would do permanent damage to the High Line experience.”

Related Companies defended the project and accused CB4 of being anti-development.

“The community board has a long track record of opposing projects that would bring opportunity to the West Side,” Related Companies said in a statement.

“While many of their ideas are not fiscally feasible to implement, we welcome feedback and elements that can make this project and neighborhood better. We are focused on moving forward with local elected officials, who have been committed to pursuing realistic plans that deliver the jobs, housing and community improvements New York needs today,” the company said.