City Planning

Photograph from 'City of Yes' affordable housing announcement, via nyc.gov

Mayor Adams Announces Proposal To Lift Floor-To-Area Ratio For New Developments

7:00 am on April 7, 2024 By Max Gillespie

Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new initiative within the “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” proposal that seeks to generate tens of thousands of affordable homes in New York City. The new initiative is targeting areas previously out of reach for many working-class New Yorkers due to an outdated floor-to-area-ratio cap, which historically has restricted the construction of new homes in high-demand zones. The proposal is seeking to lift the floor-to-area-ratio cap in these areas, such as in Midtown, Manhattan.

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247 Cherry Street and 252 South Street, image from JDS

NIMBY Lawsuits Fail Against Two Bridges Supertalls, On Manhattan’s Lower East Side

8:00 am on April 2, 2021 By Vanessa Londono

This week the New York State Court of Appeals shut down a lawsuit opposing the development of four new skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan’s Two Bridges neighborhood, as reported in The Broadsheet. This legal move upheld the August ruling by Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court in favor of a group of developers, including JDS Development Group, CIM Group, L+M Development Partners, and Starrett Corporation, to build four more towers along the Two Bridges waterfront on the Lower East Side. The site is bound by Cherry Street to the north, South Street to the south, mid-block between Pike Slip and Rutgers Street to the west, and mid-block between Clinton and Montgomery Streets to the east.

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Rendering shows Two Bridges waterfront with several proposed large-scale buildings. Credit: SHoP Architects.

Supertall Two Bridges Towers Awarded Major Victory Over NIMBYs in New York Appellate Court Decision

8:00 am on August 28, 2020 By Vanessa Londono

The New York Appellate Court ruled in favor of a group of developers, including JDS Development Group, CIM Group, L+M Development Partners, and Starrett Corporation, to build four more towers along the Two Bridges waterfront on the Lower East Side. One Manhattan Square, a similarly-scoped neighbor, was completed in early 2019, and stands alone as the rest of development came to a halt despite approvals from the City Planning Commission in 2016. Yesterday, the ruling found the buildings described in the applications did not conflict with applicable zoning requirements, with all four Judges siding against Manhattan Borough president Gale A. Brewer and the New York City Council, which challenged the approval in 2018, arguing that the new construction required special permits and had to go through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) process.

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