Posted May 12, 2014, 4:27 PM
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Neighbors: Silverstein's West Side Mystery Project Is Too Tall
Monday,
May 12, 2014,
by Curbed Staff
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Neighbors want active developer Silverstein Properties to tone down the height of its Mercedes Benz dealership-replacing development, planned for the far West Side. This opinion on 520 West 41st Street—known in the past as 514 Eleventh Avenue—quietly gained traction last week at a Community Board 4 meeting of the Hell's Kitchen Land Use Committee, which resulted in a draft letter (warning: PDF, pages 5-6) to the Department of City Planning requesting that the project's pre-application height of 1,100 feet get chopped down. The letter also emphasizes that that the 20 percent affordable housing the project may contain "must be evenly distributed in location and type throughout the building and contain an equal level of apartment finish and equal and affordable access to all building amenities."
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Seems like there have been some huge changes here, time to update the thread title! Anyway, what are the odds that NIMBY's succeed?
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