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A Call to Action for Supporters of the Human-Scale City A Picket at the REBNY Gala in Midtown on Jan 21st, 6:30. Please come. Is your neighborhood harmed by reckless and out-of-scale real estate development? Are you troubled by the tall towers shadowing Central Park? Are you outraged at the way unregulated air rights […]
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Happy New Year to all! We have been on hiatus since the Christmas holidays, but we are back with all the news we can squeeze in. Read on… New Yorkers for a Human-scale City is an alliance of 86 community, civic, tenant, parks, public space, and preservation groups across all five Boroughs. Our unifying petition […]
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Seasons Greetings To All Who Seek a Human-scale City! Lots of news this week, but first sign the petition for a humans-scale city here if you have not yet done so. Thanks go to Darcy Riley, Tribeca Trust intern for help on this week’s round-up. This round-up is several days late due to a family […]
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First things first, we need you to help slay some real estate dragons, and at present, a petition is the way to go. Have you and your spouse, friends and neighbors all signed the most important petition circulating in the city now, the petition for a Human-Scale City? If not detour here to sign: www.humanscale.nyc […]
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Here are two short movies (7.5 minutes and 4 minutes). They are glorified slide shows, but move quickly along. We added narration to the first. It shows all the unprotected buildings in Tribeca that ought to be added to the existing historic districts. The second movie showcases “lost” buildings of Tribeca, lost as recently as […]
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The fight for a human-scale city continues. This is week 4. There is a LOT to catch up on. Refill your coffee. Lean in. Or maybe read this on Saturday morning while your kids are asleep. But first things first. If you haven’t signed the petition for a human-scale city yet, do that first here. […]
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01 Dec '15
A letter from Christabel Gough Answers Some of Our Questions about the Environmental Impact Statement for ZQA/MIH Last week we were scratching our heads at Gale Brewer’s hearing: where was the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for all these controversial zoning proposals? That document was going to explain the impact of the Mayor’s zoning ideas on […]
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25 Nov '15
Aside: the new petition to sign if you haven’t done so yet is here www.humanscale.nyc To encourage gratitude for what we still have, here is a 4 minute movie of lost buildings of Tribeca. It is not a comprehensive inventory, but does convey the scope of the destructive forces that are periodically unleashed here. If […]
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25 Nov '15
Looking north along West Broadway from Warren Street
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25 Nov '15
Drag the slider to compare before and after shots (this might load slowly and is probably best viewed with a browser on our website directly rather than looked at from inside an email) First up, the triangle house on Reade Street. Then, the NW corner of Thomas and West Broadway, looking north along West Broadway […]
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