[NYguy]

Somehow, I don't think people are getting it...the tower isn't canceled.


https://www.liberationnews.org/nyc-p...-fight-we-win/


NYC public housing victory: ‘When we fight, we win!’

By Emilie Rose
Jun 18, 2019

Residents of East Harlem’s Holmes Towers are celebrating the news that the New York City Housing Authority will withdraw its Section 18 land disposition application that would have allowed Fetner Properties to build a 50-story luxury tower on top of their development’s playground.

“We, the tenants, never gave up, and we felt strong about fighting to retain our land and playground that the community utilizes. The plan would have deprived and devastated this community,” said Saundrea Coleman, resident of Isaacs Houses and former resident of Holmes Towers. “We urge the city and state to allocate the much-needed funds to restore NYCHA dwellings citywide and stop taking away our playgrounds and parking lots. We will remain united to stop the privatization of New York City Public Housing Land.”

https://patch.com/new-york/upper-eas...50-story-tower

UES NYCHA Residents Celebrate Reversal On 50-Story Tower
The city is going back to the drawing board on a plan to develop part of the Holmes Towers complex on East 93rd Street.

By Brendan Krisel
Jun 18, 2019

Residents who opposed for years a city plan to allow private development at an Upper East Side public housing complex celebrated the city's decision to scrap the plan to conduct more community outreach.

A group of tenants at the Holmes Tower and Stanley M. Isaacs Houses on East 92nd Street between First and York avenues held a victory rally at the developments on Monday following the New York City Housing Authority's decision to rescind a development application for a 50-story apartment tower late last week. Many tenants have protested the plan since it was announced in 2017 because the development will replace a playground and tower over their homes.

The city announced Friday that it will conduct additional community outreach and that it still plans to partner with Fetner Properties to develop a new plan for the site. But tenants hinted Monday that they will oppose any private development at the public housing developments.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer sued Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYCHA in April to force the project through the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. The city is seeking to have the lawsuit dismissed in the wake of the decision to scrap the plan, a NYCHA rep said Friday.

Fetner's plan for the site would have resulted in a 530-foot-tall tower with 339 apartments. Half of the apartments would have been offered at market rates and the other half would have been offered at regulated below-market rates.

Residents had originally planned a protest march around the public housing development for Monday, but quickly shifted to a celebration following the city's announcement.

"We, the tenants, never gave up, and we felt strong about fighting to retain our land and playground that the community utilizes. The plan would have deprived and devastated this community," Saundrea Coleman, a current resident of Isaacs Houses and former resident of Holmes Towers, said in a statement.