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CITY COUNCIL HEARING
ON TECH HUB
TUESDAY, JULY 10 at 9:30 AM,
CITY HALL —
DEMAND PROTECTIONS
FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD!
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This is it: the City Council’s only public hearing on the rezoning for the Mayor’s proposed 14th Street Tech Hub, which will accelerate out-of-scale, largely commercial development in Greenwich Village and the East Village between Union Square and Astor Place, making them an extension of Silicon Alley and Midtown South to the north.
DEMAND that the City Council ONLY approve the 14th Street Tech Hub IF protections for the adjacent Greenwich Village and East Village neighborhoods are provided as part of the deal!
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TO HELP:
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ATTEND the hearing on Tuesday, July 10 at 9:30 am at City Hall Council Chambers (2nd fl) to show support
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WRITE to members of the City Council urging them NOT to approve the 14th Street Tech Hub UNLESS protections for the adjacent Greenwich Village and East Village neighborhoods are included — click here.
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BACKGROUND: The area of Greenwich Village and the East Village between Union Square and Astor Place, along the University Place, Broadway, and the 3rd and 4th Avenue corridors are unique within these neighborhoods for having almost no landmark protections and inadequate zoning protections. As a result, woefully out-of-scale and out-of-character developments are rapidly rising throughout the area, including 300+ ft. tall office and condo buildings, and 300+ room hotels. This is in part fueled by NY’s rapidly expanding Tech industry, which has identified this area as the new beachhead for ‘Silicon Alley,’ the concentration of tech businesses for many years located to the north of here in Union Square and the Flatiron District in Midtown South.
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Developments Planned or Underway in the Area:
(top, l. to r.) 285 ft. tall tower at 110 University Pl. (former Bowlmor site); one iteration of possible commercial office building at 799 B’way (St. Denis) – could be 300+ ft. tall; (bottom, l. to r.) 232 ft. tall office/residential tower at 809 B’way (11th/12th); 313 rm. Moxy Hotel, 112 E. 11th St. (3rd/4th Ave. – under construction); 300 ft. tall office tower at 827-831 B’way (now blocked due to landmarking).
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GVSHP and our allies have been fighting for years to get zoning or landmark protections for the area, but the de Blasio administration has adamantly refused. Now, Mayor de Blasio wants to worsen the situation by constructing a huge new “Tech Hub” at the northern end of this area, on 14th Street just east of 4th Avenue, where it will accelerate and broaden the overdevelopment of our neighborhood to the South.
BUT there is a silver lining — the Mayor’s Tech Hub plan CAN’T advance without City Council approval. And when she ran for City Council last year, Councilmember Carlina Rivera publicly pledged to GVSHP that she would ONLY approve the Tech Hub IF protections for the Village and East Village were included. GVSHP has been working closely with CM Rivera, who has been pushing for these protections. And while there are some signs of progress, the de Blasio administration has not yet agreed, and they and others are applying tremendous pressure to CM Rivera and other Councilmembers (who will generally follow the vote of the local Councilmember on land use issues, in this case, CM Rivera) to simply vote for the Tech Hub without any neighborhood protections.
THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO GET OUR NEIGHBORHOODS THE PROTECTIONS THEY NEED!
WE MUST ENSURE THAT COUNCILMEMBER RIVERA HONORS HER CAMPAIGN PLEDGE AND THE CITY COUNCIL FOLLOWS HER LEAD, AND THE TECH HUB IS ONLY APPROVED IF NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTIONS ARE PROVIDED. |
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