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" Three projects that include the construction of four towers and the creation of nearly 3,000 housing units in Two Bridges meet all zoning requirements and can move forward, an appeals court ruled Thursday. The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling that had stopped the Manhattan megaproject from going ahead. "






This is really going to transform the LES skyline. The creation OF a skyline in that node.
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^ We were due for some good news. This sums it up nicely:

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.....in a unanimous decision, the court on Thursday wrote “the buildings described in the applications did not conflict with applicable zoning requirements and that, therefore, the CPC’s approval of the applications has a rational basis and is not contrary to law.”

They wrote that the large-scale residential district (LSRD) proposed and the height of the towers and resulting bulk comply with applicable zoning resolution provisions and a special permit is not required.

“The history of the Two Bridges LSRD site plan, which has been modified at least six times since 1973 without the issuance of a special permit, negates petitioners’ claim that, once a special permit has been issued, a new special permit and ULURP are required for further modifications to a LSRD site plan, even in the absence of a conflict with applicable ZR provisions,” the decision reads.
All of a sudden, because they don’t like what is being proposed, they want to change the zoning. Should have changed it before. They’re not on Sutton Place after all.
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Whoa. The skyline is looking so different. Can't wait to visit again and see the city, one day.
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This little cluster could be like Lower Manhattan's Hudson Yards, a smaller offshoot cluster on the water. Hopefully things get cracking here before too long.
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Oh yes this is great!!!! Lower Manhattan needs to catch up with supertalls
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Old Posted Aug 28, 2020, 1:06 PM
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But wait, there's more! For just $19.95....



https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/8/27/21...-court-battles

Embattled Two Bridges Towers Gets Appeals Court OK — But Two More Cases Await






BY RACHEL HOLLIDAY SMITH
AUG 27, 2020


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A unanimous decision from the Appellate Division reversed a particularly ardent ruling by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron last summer that had said pre-existing development rules for the site did not permit three planned 70- to 100-story buildings on the waterfront.

The higher court ruled that the City Planning Commission had made the right call when it approved tweaks to the development rules the developers requested, and found “no error” with the decision to not put the project through the public review process known as ULURP.
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The appellate decision, however, only applies to a lawsuit brought in late 2018 by Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and City Council members against the city and the City Planning Commission.

A pair of separate legal actions brought by two coalitions of local residents and activists are still pending and have not yet been resolved, noted Paula Segal, an attorney with TakeRoot Justice who represents clients in one of the remaining cases.

“This is definitely not a greenlight for the megatowers to go forward,” she said on Thursday.
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Meanwhile, a wholly separate legal battle over development rights at one of the three would-be buildings — set to rise atop an existing residence for seniors — is ongoing.

And locals have said they hope that case drags on long enough for a grassroots neighborhood rezoning proposal to move forward, which would cap all buildings at about 35 stories in an area from Catherine Street to Montgomery Street between South and Cherry streets.


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^ because lets not only try to nimby the site, what the heck, lets go ahead and nimby the whole neighborhood.
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Excited too soon, it didn't say when the next cases would be happening / if they were likely to clear.

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Oh yes this is great!!!! Lower Manhattan needs to catch up with supertalls
Is this considered Lower Manhattan? Either way I think it's cool that a new cluster could arise / give OMS some company.
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" Three projects that include the construction of four towers and the creation of nearly 3,000 housing units in Two Bridges meet all zoning requirements and can move forward, an appeals court ruled Thursday. The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling that had stopped the Manhattan megaproject from going ahead. "






This is really going to transform the LES skyline. The creation OF a skyline in that node.
Really? These boring and lousy rectilinear designs get people excited?

Just because they are tall does not make them automatically awesome. I would be in favor of waiting it out in this highly prominent location for better design products from developers whom can tastefully add to the skyline, not just plop up whatever is tallest and cheapest to achieve avarice-laden profit.

Imagine something like Torre Verre, or 1 Vanderbilt, or Steinway Tower here not just cookie cutter glass towers that are taller than usual. Something with elegant NYCesque setbacks or some design flair befitting of the waterfront landscape. In other words, not a taller version of Long Island City.
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Old Posted Aug 28, 2020, 5:02 PM
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Those are more or less massing. But we shall see what the final design manifests. These were released a few years ago.

Will probally be a rectangle, but we'll see when final designed are released in due time.
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247 Cherry, which we have seen more details on, will be a very nice tower designed by SHoP Architects.

https://jdsdevelopment.com/cherry-street/

http://ackermandevelopment.com/cherry-st




https://citylimits.org/2020/08/28/an...pment-schemes/

Another Court Win for City Hall Against Critics of Development Schemes
It was the second legal victory in as many months for City Hall in a matter involving a development project approved over community opposition.






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August 28, 2020


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An appeals court on Thursday sided with the de Blasio administration in one element of a tangled legal dispute over a proposed development in the Two Bridges neighborhood.

It was the second legal win in as many months for City Hall in a matter involving a development project approved over community opposition. In July, an appeals court ruled that the 2018 Inwood rezoning, which a local judge had annulled, had been proper. That case could now go to the state’s highest court.

This week’s ruling in Two Bridges addressed just one of three lawsuits against the plan.

The controversy is over a joint application filed by four developers for three new mixed-use high-rise projects involving four towers: a 1,008-foot rental tower at 247 Cherry Street by JDS Development Group, a 798-foot dual-tower project at 260 South Street by L+M Development Partners and CIM Group, and a 730-foot building at 259 Clinton Street by Starrett Corporation.
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The de Blasio administration welcomed the ruling.

“New York is more than ready for 700 new affordable homes, new and improved open spaces, an ADA-accessible subway station and $12.5 million in improvements to NYCHA. This ruling now makes it possible. The Planning Commission was on firm legal ground as it moved these important projects forward without subjecting them to ULURP procedures. The Court reached the right result and New Yorkers will reap the benefits sooner because of it,” said James E. Johnson, Corporation Counsel for the city’s Law Department, in an email statement to City Limits.

In a statement, the developers said, “We applaud the court’s decision, which makes clear that these projects were lawfully approved and comply with zoning that’s been in place for more than 30 years. Private investments in affordable housing and essential community infrastructure are even more critical as the city emerges from the COVID-19 crisis.”
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The project’s critics did not say whether or not they planned to appeal.

“We, the City Council and the Manhattan Borough President, sued the administration here because we believed that the community needed a seat at the table for a proposal which would add close to 3,000 units of majority luxury housing within a three block radius in a historically affordable and diverse waterfront neighborhood, and will pierce through a low-income senior building,” said City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Chin and Brewer in a statement to City Limits. “We’re disappointed in today’s decision to overturn the lower court’s ruling in our favor and are evaluating our options.”
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The four-judge panel wrote in their decision the Zoning Resolution, which establishes the zoning districts for the city and the regulations governing land use and development, allows the City Planning Commission to issue special permits to waive, vary or modify certain zoning resolution provisions relevant to large-scale residential districts (LSRD) and the zoning resolution provides for “greater flexibility” within LSRDs. It also said the petitioners, in this case the City Council and Brewer’s office, had plenty of opportunities to mitigate the issues and concerns raised by the community beforehand.

“In reaching this result, we are mindful of petitioners’ concerns that their constituents have had limited input on the proposed development’s potential effects on their neighborhood, including increased density, reduced open space and the construction of a large number of luxury residences in what has been a primarily working class neighborhood of low to medium rise buildings. However, existing law simply does not support the result petitioners seek,” wrote the judges.

“Petitioners could have taken steps to amend the [Zoning Resolution] to prohibit buildings of this scale in the area, and/or to amend ULURP to add to the categories of land use actions requiring review, through legislation and/or referendum. In addition, petitioners could have taken steps before expiration of the Two Bridges Urban Renewal Plan by its own terms in 2007 to amend the [Zoning Resolution] to include the Urban Renewal Plan’s greater restrictions, including a preference for low to medium rise buildings. Petitioners could have also sought to change the zoning classification of the Two Bridges neighborhood. Having failed to do so, petitioners cannot seek a remedy in the courts,” read the decision.
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“The appellate division made it very clear that the City Planning Commission has the right under the current law to do what they did. I think this is just another indication where the Appellate Division is saying to the lower courts, ‘You cannot legislate.’ If groups believe that the law is wrong, then they have ample recourse through their local City Council to change the rules. But you can’t change the rules through the courts,” said Ross Moskowitz, a real estate and land use partner at the law firm Stroock. “This decision, plus the recent decision allowing Inwood rezoning to proceed are all positive news for development going forward. Hopefully, this will give lower courts some pause before rendering these decisions that are getting overturned.”




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yes 247 cherry will be the true crowning beauty of these towers. it won’t be using the company that made the green tile for the neo-deco chelsea fitzroy and white tile trim for one vanderbilt, but it seems it will have that appearance. really looking forward to that one especially!
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^ Yeah, it should really be nice.























And these towers will face 9 DeKalb, across the bridge...(not pictured)



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https://nypost.com/2020/08/30/lower-...ourt-approval/

Court defeat for Lower East Side tower projects’ foes





By Steve Cuozzo
August 30, 2020


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A bombshell court ruling means that the opponents of plans for a massive Lower East Side development project have lost their battle to chop the planned towers down to size.

The state appeals court last week decided that the towers planned for Clinton, Cherry and South streets don’t need to go through the city’s tortuous Uniform Land Use Review Procedure because the plans comply with zoning. Had the appellate judges not overruled a lower-court ruling, the projects would likely have been reduced in size and development delayed by the City Council.

The ruling paves the way for four towers of between 63 and 80 stories to one day soar above the low-rise Two Bridges neighborhood’s mostly 19th-century tenements.
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Councilwoman Margaret Chin, who represents the district, and Speaker Corey Johnson oppose the plans, as does Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. They said in a statement that they were “disappointed” by the ruling and “are evaluating our options.”

Problem is, they appear to have no options because the appellate judges ruled unanimously 4-0 — making it virtually impossible to bring the case to the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest.
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Mass model rendering via member "bmosborne".

Idea of potential impact of LES Towers, and others (80 South if that ever happens).


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https://nypost.com/2020/09/12/city-h...erately-needs/

City Hall needs to fight harder for the construction NYC desperately needs


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September 12, 2020


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Another state appeals court has overruled ridiculous “Not In My Back Yard” objections to a development project that’s fully in legal compliance with zoning rules. It’s welcome news for a city looking to bounce back from the economically debilitating impact of the coronavirus.

Late last month, a Manhattan appellate court unanimously overturned an absurd ruling that halted the Two Bridges project. An important takeaway from the decision should guide lower courts in similar cases: “It is undisputed that they do not violate any applicable zoning regulation” — meaning judges need to stop trying to override city officials’ exercise of their lawful discretion.
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Two Bridges gets the greenlight for three apartment towers ranging 70 to 100 stories along the Lower East Side waterfront. The project will include one of the single-largest infusions of new affordable housing in Manhattan in decades, $40 million in upgrades to the East Broadway subway station that will make it handicap-accessible, $12.5 million in repairs to a nearby NYCHA complex and $15 million in upgrades to three public parks in the neighborhood.

Next on the court docket is the 200 Amsterdam appeal. Other pending projects include 1510 Broadway and an affordable-housing project and rezonings in Soho and Gowanus.

Unfortunately, the city recently withdrew from a promising public-private waterfront rezoning in Long Island City’s Anable Basin that would’ve produced up to 12 million square feet of commercial, residential and open space.
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City Hall’s foot-dragging on restarting the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure or ULURP, a multi-step public-review process, is an added crimp on development when New Yorkers badly need new housing and construction jobs — and with private investment even more critical now that the city’s own coffers are badly squeezed.

This is the only hope for Mayor de Blasio’s ambitious affordable-housing plan to create or preserve 300,000 housing units by 2026.

So City Hall needs to push hard — fighting bad judicial rulings and moving faster on other administrative blocks to building. Get New York City building — and growing — again.
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Appellate Court to Hear Community Lawsuit that Halted Development of Two Bridges Towers



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Down on the Two Bridges waterfront, the future of three super-tall residential projects will soon be decided. Indeed, it took a year, but a community-led lawsuit is now on appeal, with a court date set for next week.

You’ll recall that a consortium of community groups under the banner of Lower East Side Organized Neighbors (LESON) filed a lawsuit in March 2019 to reverse the City’s approval of four new towers along the coast. A year later, State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over the case, ruled in favor of the community, and found that the slate of skyscrapers stood in direct contradiction to the underlying Two Bridges Large Scale Residential Development zoning.

The Appellate Court set a date to hear the case – January 27.

The news follows just a few months after the Appellate Court overturned the lawsuit brought forth by City Council that would have forced developers into the public land-use process.

In a protest action yesterday, the plaintiffs demanded City Council support the fight to stop the renewed effort toward towers.

Christopher Marte, candidate for City Council in District 1, said, “When this coalition stood up to the city, and stood up to developers, it made our neighbors stand up and fight,” Council candidate Christopher Marte said in a statement. “It made people from across our city from Inwood, to Flushing, to Sunset Park say, ‘this is our land, not your land.’ We are working class New Yorkers who built this city so it shouldn’t just serve the people who live in the Extell tower.”


If overturned, a wall of glass on the waterfront is a near certainty. JDS and Two Bridges Neighborhood Council propose a 1,008-foot rental building that cantilevers over a senior center, designed by SHoP Architects (247 Cherry Street); L+M and CIM propose a 798 and 728-foot tower beast in the parking lot behind Lands End II, designed by Handel Architects (260 South Street); and Starrett plans a 724-foot tower, designed by Perkins Eastman (259 Clinton Street).
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City Looks to Appeal Decision Halting Two Bridges Towers — Again

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The city’s Law Department and developers behind the contentious Two Bridges proposal appeared before a panel of judges in state appellate court Wednesday, arguing their second appeal against two lawsuits which resulted in an earlier injunction that halted the project from moving forward.

The focus of the argument — waged between members of the Lower East Side community against the de Blasio administration, and the developers who want to build four skyscrapers there — hinges on the specifics of a special designation the city gave the neighborhood in 1972, when it was deemed a Large-Scale Residential Development (LSRD) area, where the city allows flexibility from normal land-use regulations to facilitate the most space-efficient uses for large apartment buildings that span multiple property lots.
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The controversial project would include a 1,008-foot rental tower at 247 Cherry St., a 798-foot dual-tower project at 260 South Street, and a 730-foot building at 259 Clinton Street. The four towers would bring in 11,000 square feet of retail and over 2,700 new residential units, 25 percent of which would be affordable, with 200 of those 690 affordable units set aside for seniors. The development project would also come with $40 million in upgrades to the nearby East Broadway subway station, $12.5 million in repairs to the nearby NYCHA complex and $15 million in upgrades to three public parks in the neighborhood.

The city argues that the CPC is not required to make any findings under the LSRD designation, as the community’s lawsuit attests. “[The plaintiffs] contend that a special permit issued in 1972 imposes an ongoing requirement that the commission make findings. This argument finds no home in the text of the special permit itself, the text of the zoning resolution or the history of the LSRD,” Jamison Davies, senior counsel for appeals at the city’s Law Department, said to the judges panel Wednesday.
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Davies cited the city’s legal win in a separate lawsuit against the Two Bridges project last year, in which an appeals court sided with the de Blasio administration. That suit, brought by the City Council and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, argued that because of the proposed project’s large size, it required a special permit, which would trigger the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), the city’s public land use review process. A judge in that case granted a temporary restraining order halting the development in 2019, but that decision was reversed last August in Appeals Court.

In a statement to City Limits, the developers behind Two Bridges — JDS Development Group, Starrett Corporation, L+M Development Partners and CIM Group — also pointed to that earlier court reversal as proof that their projects comply with existing zoning regulations.
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Two Bridges residents involved in the lawsuits spoke at a press conference Wednesday evening, saying they are wary of the size of the project and the impact on longtime residents.

“This was an undesirable area 20, 30 years ago, and all of a sudden we’re prime real estate,” said Elaine La Penna, who lives in the building next to One Manhattan Square, a luxury condo development completed in 2019 by the company Extell. The developers built affordable housing as part of the project in order to benefit from a 20-year tax abatement through the state’s 421-a program, but residents have raised concerns about disparities between the affordable units and luxury condo building. While One Manhattan Square has its own security, La Penna’s building’s doors are broken, she says.

“The disparity is just disgusting. I hate to see that continue throughout the neighborhood. I think there has to be better zoning laws in place,” she said.
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Oh man, still dragging this process on. Between appeals and courts and dismissals and resubmission of legal challenges, the saga continues.
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At least the city supports the developers, for once. The NIMBYs can delay, but they can't stop a city-approved project.
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