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WESTERN RAIL YARD ULURP REVIEW MEETINGS:

JUNE 18 - Housing, Health & Human Services/Clinton Hell's Kitchen Land Use
6:30 p.m.
"The Flats", 554 West 53rd Street [map]
1. Discussion: Western Rail Yard ULURP: Onsite and Offsite (48th & 10th/54th & 9th) Affordable Housing

JUNE 25 - Clinton/Hell's Kitchen Land Use/Housing, Health & Human Services
6:30 p.m.
"The Flats", 554 West 53rd Street [map]
1. Discussion: Western Rail Yard ULURP: site planning, density, building form, High Line, and open space

JULY 8 - EXTRA Transportation Planning Committee, 6.30 pm, Community Board 4 Office, 330 West 42nd Street, 26th Floor: Review and Discussion of Western Rail Yard ULURP Draft Environmental Impact Study Chapters 17 & 18 (Traffic & Parking, Transit & Pedestrians).

JULY 8 - Clinton/Hell's Kitchen Land Use/Housing, Health & Human Services
6:30 p.m.
John Jay College - 899 10th Ave., 6th Floor, Rm 630 (b. 58th / 59th) [map]
1. Discussion: Western Rail Yard ULURP: Infrastructure (school, fire, police, sewer, et al.)

JULY 15 - Clinton/Hell's Kitchen Land Use/Housing, Health & Human Services
6:30 pm
Dan Carpenter Room A, Hudson Guild, 441 West 26th Street [map]
1. Discussion/Vote: Western Rail Yard ULURP: Conclusions and Positions

JULY 22- Full Board Meeting
6:30 p.m.
Roosevelt Hospital - 1000 Tenth Av. (b. 58th / 59th). [map]

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement is available here.

The application for the Western Rail Yard is here.

The application for the 54th/Ninth Avenue site is here and for the 48th/Tenth Avenue site is here.

Click here to read the history of the Western/Rail Yard rezoning and an archive of the boards and HYCAC letters.

 

 

 

 
WEST CHELSEA HISTORIC DISTRICT

We are very please to announce that, at the Stated Council meeting of October 23, 2008, following the meeting on July 15, 2008 by the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), the NYC Council voted to designate West Chelsea Historic District. The district is located between West 24th and 28th Streets and Tenth Avenue and the West Side Highway. A map with the exact boundaries and the designation report can be found at the LPC website (www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/home.html).

The West Chelsea Historic District is a rare surviving example of New York City's rapidly disappearing industrial neighborhoods. Despite a decline in industry and freight-related activity during the mid-twentieth century, the historic district still retains nearly all of its historic building stock, and represents a unique en enduring part of New York City's architectural and cultural heritage.

The West Chelsea Historic District is the brain-child of our Landmarks Task Force chair and longstanding board member, Ed Kirkland. We thank Ed for all his hard work and congratulate him with this designation.


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HARBORVIEW AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT SITE

Last year, the City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the New York City Housing Authority Request for Proposals relating to development of affordable housing on several NYCHA-owned parking lots located in Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen. The lots are at: 1) Fulton Houses, 18th Street btwn. Ninth and Tenth Avenues; 2) Elliot Chelsea Houses, Ninth Avenue, corner of 25th Street; and 3) Harborview, 55th to 56th Street btwn. 10th and 11th Avenues.

The Harborview site is the furthest along and is in the Uniformed Land Use Review Procedure stage of the process. The board has many serious concerns regarding this site as it is proposed today and recently released a resolution detailing these concerns.

For further information click on "Building Affordable Housing" in the column to the left this update.

 

 

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In 1999, the US Census counted 87,479 people living in the CB4 area. Today, the population is closer to 100,000. That's about as many people living in the city of Albany.

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