485-x is a corrosive disease. Penalizing larger buildings while supposedly trying to stimulate housing stock growth. SMH.
the third design… by Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Updated Design Revealed for 375 Lafayette Street in Noho, Manhattan - New York YIMBY
So glad we have brave neighborhood preservationists to fight for this city’s historic surface parking lots
On March 10 , the Landmarks Preservation Commission reviewed an application by Minskoff Equities and Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) to build a pair of 19-story, 195-foot-tall buildings at 375 Lafayette Street , which is now a parking lot on the northeast corner of Great Jones Street in the Noho Historic District Extension.
After the presentation, there were nearly two hours of public testimony from elected officials, preservation groups, and Noho residents past and present. Those in favor of the project and those against it both emphasized the need for new housing in the neighborhood, but this aspect is not supposed for factor into Landmarks’ decisions. The majority of opponents objected to the size of the design, finding it out of scale with the surrounding buildings and that it would obscure nearby landmarked buildings. In the end, there was so much public testimony that Landmarks invited the applicant to come back at a later date to talk about what they had heard, at which time commissioners are expected to consider everything and take a vote.