Send the NIMBYs somewhere far worse than Staten Island or any other island... Send them right to New Jersey...

They would only find something else to whine about. The problem fo them is no one would care as much. Why they're always taken so seriously in Manhattan is an issue for the media.

Petition to get the second station on the 7 line extension into Hudson Yards built...
http://www.buildthestation.com/

While I agree the decision to not even build a shell for the 10th Avenue station was stupid and shortsighted, I wonder if this REBNY petition is too little too late. Where were they last year or two years ago when the digging started? It's my understanding that the TBMs will be finished digging the tunnels by this summer. Does anyone know how this will affect the MTA's ability to excavate this station?

In fact, according to the Times article, there's a building going up on the site where the station entrance is supposed to be. If I remember correctly, the original design for the station had it integrated with the new building. How are they going to do that now?

From the NY Times:

so what will happen when NYC is out of developable space?

Simple: Beautiful old buildings get torn down for plain glass boxes

Or ugly, old, and impractical buildings get torn down for towers to house the city's economic growth. The alternative is to have a dead city, and New York has shown over the years that it will be anything but.

Queens will get some love.

juuuuust being cynical...:D

The City has been pushing to create the city's fourth largest business district in Long Island City, but it has been slow to develop. Even Downtown Brooklyn has seen more residential than commercial towers develop. But the boom times will return, and the drought in new office construction now will be force a flood of new construction.

for the first time ever im gonna be a nimby on this project it needs to be shorter so its not blocking the empire state building. They need to keep buildings away from it and shorter than it for ones that are close. I like right now how its in the center and theirs buildings on the otskirts and behind it but no supertall should be up farther than downtown than esb. The new proposal is perfect the original one was definately too big.

your entitled to your opinion but i think this site has to be built big...the ESB has held is place for almost 80 yrs. its time for a change and i think the Hudson Yards is the perfect place for supertalls that will rival the ESB. This is NYC's last piece of developable space,lests do it right and build HUGE towers that will rival some of the worlds tallest structures. :notacrook:

The area is already zoned for large towers, that is what we'll eventually see here. How tall though? That's another question.

Staten Island better than Jersey? :haha:

Sure is! Don't hate, appreciate, bitches. :banana:

P.S. The last thing we need here in Staten Island is more NIMBYs. Pass!

Not to continue this off topic business, but check out the movie "Staten Island". It does for Staten Island what the "Sopranos" did for Jersey...:tup:

if only building over the railyards wasnt so super-complicated, time consuming and expensive.

lets dont forget the other and even more practical site for supertalls is over on the eastside of manhattan south of the united nations.

we are out of the worst of the financial crisis -- which site will get built up first? :shrug:

There's no immediate subway service there, and the area is mostly residential, which is one of the reasons there was only one commercial tower planned there in the con ed redevelopment plan.

http://www.observer.com/2010/real-es...s-go-1200-foot

For Steve Ross, Rail Yards Rent Starts When Apartments Cost $1,200 a Foot

By Eliot Brown
April 26, 2010