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Call on Borough President Gale Brewer
to Protect Greenwich Village and the East Village in Tech Hub Resolution
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This past week, GVSHP was joined by other preservation, neighborhood, arts, and affordable housing groups in urging Borough President Brewer to include proposed zoning protections for the surrounding Greenwich Village and East Village as a condition of any approvals for the Mayor’s proposed Tech Hub on 14th Street (read the letter here). Without such protections, the proposed Tech Hub will accelerate the current transformation of the area between Union Square and Astor Place into ‘Midtown South,’ with out-of-scale and out-of-character large hotels, office buildings, and high-rise condos proliferating at a rapid pace. Mayor de Blasio has made clear that he has no interest in protecting these areas, and believes the 300+ ft. tall towers and 300+ room hotels rising in the area are a good thing.
Unless such protections are secured as part of the Tech Hub approval process, it is clear that the Mayor will not allow them to be implemented. GVSHP and our allies have called for such protections to be part of any approvals for the Tech Hub. While Borough President Brewer has said she supports such protections, she has thus far declined to attach any conditions to her recommendation, even though tech-related development is clearly a major force behind the growing wave of overdevelopment this area is facing.
Please reach out to Borough President Brewer to urge her to include the proposed protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village as a condition of any approval for the 14th Street Tech Hub.
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Call Borough
President Brewer
at212-669-8300
And say: “I urge Borough President Brewer to include the proposed protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village AS A CONDITION OF ANY APPROVALS FOR THE 14th STREET TECH HUB.” Please be polite and concise.
After the Borough President, the Tech Hub proposal will go to the City Planning Commission and finally the City Council for approval. City Councilmember Carlina Rivera pledged when she ran for City Council that she would, like her predecessor Councilmember Rosie Mendez, condition her support for the Tech Hub upon such neighborhood protections also being provided.
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