A new proposal would add a huge spaceship-like glass addition atop the historic, landmarked “Triangle” building at 675 Hudson Street (13th/14th Streets + 9th Avenue) in the heart of the Meatpacking District’s Gansevoort Market Historic District — a landmark designation which Village Preservation secured in 2003. The oversized, outlandish rooftop addition would destroy the integrity of one of the neighborhood’s defining historic buildings, which dates in its earliest sections to 1849; is the oldest industrial building in the Meatpacking District; and predates its taller “Flatiron” cousin at 23rd Street and Broadway by over fifty years. As a landmarked building that defines this historic district, such a change would drastically and negatively alter the design and character of the building, and should be rejected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission when heard at their public hearing on Tuesday. 

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