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By Matt Chaban 7/26/11 11:00pm

Mo’ MA: Museum’s Inspired, Insipid Tower Returns

New York City may have brought down Dominique Strauss-Kahn, but another torrid Frenchman will not be held up by the likes of us. Read More

By Eliot Brown 8/17/10 11:35pm

Sky Wars

Defending the Empire: The Campaign Against the Empire State Building's Giant Neighbor to the West

This past spring, Anthony Malkin, president of Malkin Properties and an owner of the Empire State Building, started paying attention to an office tower planned by Vornado Realty Trust. The giant office landlord was seeking approvals to build a tower up to 1,216 feet high two blocks to his building’s west, on what’s Read More

By Eliot Brown 7/30/10 9:47pm

Better Faster Stronger

City Wants Consultant to Streamline City Planning

The real estate development world, which is full of complaints about government, rarely throws around the term “efficient” when speaking of the Department of City Planning. One of the biggest complaints is that most every developer embarking on a big project must go through what can be a months-long “pre-certification” process (though it can even Read More

By Amanda Cormier 6/07/10 7:58pm

Planning Commission Approves Domino Sugar Housing Development

The City Planning Commission voted unanimously today in favor of a $1.5 billion residential complex along the Williamsburg waterfront. The vote brings the project one step closer to approval — and portends a potentially dramatic change to the Brooklyn skyline.

The project, located on the site of a long-vacant Domino sugar refinery, was hailed by Read More

By Lysandra Ohrstrom 3/10/08 9:15pm

Burden Cries 'Security!' As Planning Commission OKs 125th Street Rezoning

"Amanda Burden is rich, rich, rich! You’re destroying our community and making it white because you can’t find a restaurant! You’re a socialite and a horrible person!"

So shouted Harlem residents at Planning Commission Chairwoman Amanda Burden toward the end of Monday’s contentious commission meeting about the Bloomberg administration’s plan to rezone 125th Street Read More

By Matthew Schuerman 11/26/07 7:38pm

Planning Commission Approves Columbia Expansion

The city Planning Commission voted early this afternoon to approve the expansion of Columbia University into West Harlem. The vote was 10 to 1, with one abstention. The plan next moves to the City Council for approval or rejection.

We’ll have more on the Planning Commission vote very soon.

By Matthew Schuerman 6/04/07 3:37pm

Columbia Expansion Application Delayed

Neighbors who protested the City Planning Commission’s timetable for reviewing Columbia University’s Manhattanville application have been heard—sort of. The West Harlem community board had feared that starting the review process—called ULURP, for Uniform Land Use Review Procedure—as expected today would limit its members' participation, since the deadline for board input would come in two Read More

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Mo’ MA: Museum’s Inspired, Insipid Tower Returns

Defending the Empire: The Campaign Against the Empire State Building's Giant Neighbor to the West

City Wants Consultant to Streamline City Planning

Planning Commission Approves Domino Sugar Housing Development

Burden Cries 'Security!' As Planning Commission OKs 125th Street Rezoning

Planning Commission Approves Columbia Expansion

Columbia Expansion Application Delayed

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