Who Will Be New York’s Next Chief City Planner? And Does It Matter? With the New York City mayor’s race not even past the Democratic primary, it’s a bit early to be handicapping By Stephen Jacob Smith
BIG News: Planning Commission Approves Durst’s 57th Street Pyramid Apartments When Douglas Durst began deciding, yet again, what to do with the almost block-long property he owns at 57th Street By Matt Chaban
Keeping It Contextual: City Planning Commission Approves Rezonings in West Harlem, Bed-Stuy It was a busy day at the City Planning Commission Wednesday. Not only did the commissioners debate the upzoning of By Matt Chaban
Good News and Bad News for the High Line as Chelsea Market Expansion Approved by City Planning By Matt Chaban
Midtown Slowdown: Councilman Garodnick Asks City to Take Its Time on Rezoning Midtown for Superscrapers By Matt Chaban
Faulty Towers: Midtown Needs a Makeover, with Twice as Tall Towers, But Can Mayor Bloomberg Get It Right? By Matt Chaban
AIDS Memorial Divides Village People: Tiny Triangle Tears Community Between Reflection and Recreation By Elise Knutsen and Matt Chaban
Don’t Tread on Me: Could Occupy Wall Street Save New York’s Neglected Privately Owned Public Spaces? By Matt Chaban