Anybody have a link to the judge’s ruling?

Edit: South St. Seaport Coalition, Inc. v Landmarks Preservation Commn. of the City of N.Y., via https://therealdeal.com/2023/01/13/judge-stops-howard-hughes-seaport-project-again-citing-quid-pro-quo/

Summary: LPC has landmarked a parking lot for decades, and now they have no good explanation why it’s suddenly no longer landmarked.

If it’s another monstrosity mega building that only the super rich can afford, then I’d prefer the parking lot too

70 affordable housing units would have been built. How many affordable housing units will the parking lot have?

I wonder what the proposed building would have looked like. It'd be nice not to have another Anytown, USA cookie cutter.

Smh

This is a super biased headline. Howard Hughes Corp and city agencies colluded:

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Judge-Says-Landmarks-Ruling-Doesn-t-Hold-Water.html?soid=1101992539878&aid=Ns6wxbp05fo

End judicial immunity, so that the judge can be sued personally for infringing the constitutional housing rights of New Yorkers.

It’s interesting because I quite literally just read a long article from this sub talking about not only warehousing but property management software that quite literally controls the market by creating artificial scarcity. To be fair I just scanned the article but it seemed like pretty obvious price-fixing as far as I can tell.

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If you hate “monstrosity mega buildings” you should probably live basically anywhere except New York.

/based/ headline

The judge doesn’t care about a parking lot or the views. Judges are human beings they sometimes have an agenda or biases, but most cases they don’t have any dog in the race.

Used to be the cheapest lot in fidi to park, even cheaper than the tenant “discount” for the garage at my building. I miss it 😢

Its the city council fault they set the zoning they can change the zoning.

You can fit way more than 70 tents there

Too many people are trying to make the housing issue a black and white problem. The reality is it’s not as simple as just build more or stop the software. There are thousands of factors at play here and all of them are against the regular people just trying to rent a place.

Example #18,467 of this sub not understanding what supply and demand is

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Why is this downvoted lol

Who tf landmarks a parking lot? What is so historic about it,

City council should step in and amend regulations such that something as ridiculous as a parking lot cannot be considered historical and is exempt from decision making or input from the LPC.

The people who get the parking lot landmarked are the people across the street enjoying the nice views of Brooklyn. If it's landmarked, no one can build a tall building that would block that view.

Just build some mid density apartments like in Park Slope tf

Ban cars and restrictive zoning.

I have no idea what's wrong with this city, anyone walking in that area, can see that parking lot is an eyesore. It has no character, and in my view little to no historical value, just a paved over piece of land. If they made it into a much needed park, that would be a much better idea over any building.

It's in a "historic district" so everything within is landmarked

Tf that’s dumb

Yeah the landmark commission goes way overboard. At this point they're trying to justify the continued existence of their jobs.

A landmark commission should still exist but this parking lot shouldn’t be part of it, heck any parking structure shouldn’t be included

a lot of landmarks should be rolled back. Why do we need to landmark a building so unique it looks exactly like every other building around it? Everything worth landmarking has already been landmarked.