Posted Jan 24, 2008, 10:55 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Borough of Jersey
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No plans yet, but they're already coming out against this one...
http://chelseanow.com/cn_69/hudsonyardsstill.html
Monumental and intimidating
In its letter to MTA, HYCAC starts by pointing out that “the scale of the buildings is overwhelming.” While the MTA, hoping to promote extensive amounts of residential and commercial development, allowed in its RFP buildings with a floor area ratio (FAR) of as much as 11, the results from the developers’ proposals were far denser than that number suggests. “Excluding open space and streets, [the same way] as parks and streets are excluded elsewhere in the city,” the letter points out, “the effective density of these proposals is in the neighborhood of 25 FAR.”
Unprecedented anywhere in New York City, such density “far exceeds what can be considered good planning for the future of the city or the local community,” the committee said. “An environment dominated by monumental and intimidating buildings,” such as Durst’s 80-story home for Conde Nast or Brookfield’s proposed 100-story tower on Eighth Avenue, is seen by HYCAC as incompatible with a livable city.
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