[NYer34]

It always makes my blood boil that development like this - decent new construction in a God-forgotten, miserable, butt-hideous corner of the city, an area not so much pock-marked by the hideousness of bad 1950s-70s architecture and urban planning as it is defined by it, an area that has only one direction to go (up), should be in any way slowed or excessively scrutinized by the city ... while pre-Civil War buildings are bulldozed multiple times per year Downtown; entire blocks of classic pre-war NY get demo'd wholesale on a regular basis on the UES; and the travesties of Gene Kaufman are allowed to proliferate in place of the brooding Gotham Gothic of the Garment District - all without a peep or care by the city. WTF.