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Originally Posted by phoenixboi08
[SIZE="2"]Wait...I thought a good portion of Clinton was upzoned, during the process the city undertook to plan the Hudson Yards (people seem to forget it's much more than the railyards).
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Yes, parts were upzoned, but I'm talking about Clinton, which is between 42nd and 57th Streets.
There have been some modest upzonings in Clinton, but nothing coming close to rolling back the mega-downzoning of the Koch administration (a huge planning mistake, IMO, probably costing the city billions over time).
I would guess, very LONG term, the neighborhood will be upzoned. At some point it becomes absurd, surrounded by huge towers on all sides. The community will resist, but at some point the NIMBYs will have died off enough that a mayor will be able to get something passed, at least for major towers along the avenues. Bloomberg kinda tried a compromise plan, and it didn't go far.