Posted Jan 4, 2006, 1:24 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Borough of Jersey
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He (Witkoff) presented schematic designs for the hotel, which would occupy not just his parcel between 36th and 37th streets but also a concrete plaza to the south controlled by the state agency that is in charge of the Javits expansion.
“It looked a little like the U.N. building, a big north-south slab,” said Anna Levin, co-chair of Community Board 4’s land-use committee for Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen. “There is a bridge over 36th Street, and the hotel entrance would be under the bridge.”
The resemblance to the United Nations tower didn’t go over well, according to Ms. Levin, but the idea of putting the hotel somewhere along 11th Avenue instead of on 42nd Street did.
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I'm very interested in seeing a rendering of that particular proposal.
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