A developer has filed plans for an outrageously out-of-scale 538-ft.-tall tower at 5 West 13th Street/8-12 West 14th Street in Greenwich Village, claiming zoning rules under Mayor Adams’ new “City of Yes” — approved by the City Council — allow it. The building will contain just 36 super-luxury apartments, most likely not even primary residences for their owners. No affordable housing nor any public amenities of any sort will be included. It would be almost twice the height of the currently tallest building in Greenwich Village. 

Is this what our new zoning rules are supposed to allow and encourage? In a filing to the Department of Buildings, we and neighbors are arguing they don’t and the plans should be rejected. Whether or not they are accepted will determine what the zoning rules we will all have to live with really mean and allow moving forward.  The City must respond to this challenge and either affirm that the zoning rules allow this development or deny the permit. 
 

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