[NYguy]

These people need to move already. If a 25-story building in Manhattan will destroy your way of life, just move.



https://www.otdowntown.com/news/in-blow-...s-ok-d-by-appeals-court-ruling-AC2576112

In Blow To Community Opposition, South Seaport Tower Is Ok’d By Appeals Court Ruling
A new twenty-five story tower located in the South Street Seaport area can move forward with construction





JACK AHERN
09 JUN 2023

In a victory for Howard Hughes Corp., their behemoth twenty-five story residential tower in downtown Manhattan is expected to move forward with construction after a favorable appeals court ruling.

The project was initially halted after a successful lawsuit by opposition group Seaport Coalition in October of 2022, prompting Judge Arthur Engoron to issue an injunction on the project.

Now, in a demoralizing blow to stalwart critics of the project such as the Seaport Coalition, the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the project can move forward. This all but confirms that the twenty-five story skyscraper will loom over Pier 17, in a location that the Landmarks Preservation Committee had prevented from being developed for decades until the Hughes Corp.’s successful bid to change their minds in May of 2021.

.....The South Seaport Tower is projected to stand up to 324 ft. tall and will contain 399 housing units. 100 of these units are intended to be affordable and family-oriented, with 90 of those 100 being priced at 40 percent of the area’s median income (roughly equal to $50,840 for a family of three) and the remaining ten priced at 120 percent of the AMI (roughly $152,520 for a family of three).