Merchant's House
The East Village/Bowery is slated for nonetheless roughly other luxury boutique hotel, in addition to this fourth dimension the historic Merchant's House Museum on East fourth Street is nether threat.
They bring issued a call to arms, alongside instructions on how you lot tin help.
Curbed
Not exactly that, but the hotel would hateful goodbye to the piffling one-story garage where the neighborhood's hot domestic dog vendors shop their carts -- roughly other modest slice of New York's character.
The Merchant's House Executive Director, Margaret Halsey Gardiner, writes:
The proposed hotel, at 100 feet tall, is inwards violation of the City's Zoning Resolution. The developer's application for a zoning text amendment – "spot zoning" – would inwards number rewrite the constabulary for a serial of waivers that produce goodness the developer alone.
At viii stories, the proposed hotel towers over the four ½ even out Merchant’s House (completely blocking sunlight to our bring upward garden) in addition to is grossly incompatible alongside the surrounding buildings in addition to neighborhood inwards the Noho Historic District.
If the Planning Commission approves the application, the developer would locomote able to expire on – in addition to our fragile, 186-year-old edifice would endure catastrophic structural harm in addition to probable collapse during construction.
The Merchant's House is fighting for its survival.
Mark your calendars!
Community Board two PUBLIC HEARING
Wednesday, Apr 11, 6:30 p.m.
NYU Silver Building, 32 Waverly Place, Room 520
It is VITAL that nosotros create amount the room alongside supporters. PLEASE attend!
The Merchant’s House is New York City’s exactly menage unit of measurement habitation preserved intact, within in addition to out, from the 19th century. It is irreplaceable.
If the Merchant’s House – Manhattan’s starting fourth dimension designated landmark inwards 1965 – can’t locomote protected, NO New York City landmark volition locomote condom from out-of-control mortal development.
They bring issued a call to arms, alongside instructions on how you lot tin help.
Curbed
Not exactly that, but the hotel would hateful goodbye to the piffling one-story garage where the neighborhood's hot domestic dog vendors shop their carts -- roughly other modest slice of New York's character.
The Merchant's House Executive Director, Margaret Halsey Gardiner, writes:
The proposed hotel, at 100 feet tall, is inwards violation of the City's Zoning Resolution. The developer's application for a zoning text amendment – "spot zoning" – would inwards number rewrite the constabulary for a serial of waivers that produce goodness the developer alone.
At viii stories, the proposed hotel towers over the four ½ even out Merchant’s House (completely blocking sunlight to our bring upward garden) in addition to is grossly incompatible alongside the surrounding buildings in addition to neighborhood inwards the Noho Historic District.
If the Planning Commission approves the application, the developer would locomote able to expire on – in addition to our fragile, 186-year-old edifice would endure catastrophic structural harm in addition to probable collapse during construction.
The Merchant's House is fighting for its survival.
Mark your calendars!
Community Board two PUBLIC HEARING
Wednesday, Apr 11, 6:30 p.m.
NYU Silver Building, 32 Waverly Place, Room 520
It is VITAL that nosotros create amount the room alongside supporters. PLEASE attend!
The Merchant’s House is New York City’s exactly menage unit of measurement habitation preserved intact, within in addition to out, from the 19th century. It is irreplaceable.
If the Merchant’s House – Manhattan’s starting fourth dimension designated landmark inwards 1965 – can’t locomote protected, NO New York City landmark volition locomote condom from out-of-control mortal development.
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