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“It’s easy to cast all opposition to developments as NIMBY, but this ignores crucial racial and economic differences between neighborhoods and disparities in who has the power to decide the…

ByChris Walters 0Comments

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Feb 2021

Housing and Homelessness Justice Land Use and Development News

Lawsuits Seeking to Stop Two Bridges Development Overturned in Appellate Court

A panel of appellate judges on Tuesday reversed an earlier injunction halting the contentious Two Bridges project — a major setback for Lower East Side community groups, which have been…

BySadef Ali Kully 2Comments

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Jan 2021

Housing and Homelessness

City Looks to Appeal Decision Halting Two Bridges Towers — Again

The city’s Law Department argued their second appeal in court Wednesday against two lawsuits which resulted in an earlier injunction stopping the project, which would build four new skyscrapers on…

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

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Aug 2019

Housing and Homelessness

Court Ruling Rebuffs De Blasio Admin Over Manhattan High-Rises

A state Supreme Court judge’s decision released Thursday could send the developers behind proposed four high-rises in Manhattan’s Two Bridges neighborhood back to square one.

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

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Jul 2019

Housing and Homelessness

LES Groups Try to Revive Rezoning that De Blasio Admin. Rejected

Community groups and elected officials hoping to stop four high-rises planned for Two Bridges have taken the city to court. Win or lose there, they are also pursuing elements of…

BySadef Ali Kully 2Comments

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Mar 2019

Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Embrace it? Channel it? Or Try to Stop It Altogether?
Two Bridges is Divided Over Responding to Change

Concerns about tenant harassment, rising rents and sudden neighborhood change frame the intense debate about the proposed development of three buildings along the East River in Two Bridges.

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Feb 2019

Land Use and Development Opinion

CityViews: The Two Bridges Development Mess has a Two-Letter Answer—No!

‘If the tower proposal violates the deed, shouldn’t the city then rescind the permit for the tower?’

ByDavid Tieu

ByZishun Ning 2Comments

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Dec 2018

Housing and Homelessness

Fight Over Land-Use Powers in Council’s Two Bridges Lawsuit

The suit by the City Council and Manhattan Borough President is one of three possible cases involving the proposed skyscrapers.

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Dec 2018

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Planning Commission OKs Two Bridges Development Plan

But three members voted no, voicing objections over the plan and the process.

BySadef Ali Kully 0Comments

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Oct 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Proposed Mega Towers an Affront to Lower East Side Residents

‘Building supertall finger buildings that allow high sales prices based on the views they let inhabitants own hurts neighborhoods by blocking light and air from other buildings and public streets.’

ByDaisy Echevarria

ByPaula Z. Segal 0Comments

Opinion: To Protect Chinatown and the LES, Pass the Two Bridges Community Plan

Lawsuits Seeking to Stop Two Bridges Development Overturned in Appellate Court

City Looks to Appeal Decision Halting Two Bridges Towers — Again

Court Ruling Rebuffs De Blasio Admin Over Manhattan High-Rises

LES Groups Try to Revive Rezoning that De Blasio Admin. Rejected

Embrace it? Channel it? Or Try to Stop It Altogether?
Two Bridges is Divided Over Responding to Change

CityViews: The Two Bridges Development Mess has a Two-Letter Answer—No!

Fight Over Land-Use Powers in Council’s Two Bridges Lawsuit

Planning Commission OKs Two Bridges Development Plan

CityViews: Proposed Mega Towers an Affront to Lower East Side Residents

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