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In June, City Council member Helen Rosenthal, State Senator Brad Hoylman and State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried issued a missive to Extell Development, declaring they knew something wasn’t right with the 25-story building the company had filed plans for at 36-40 West 66th Street.

Community members had become suspicious of the developer’s intentions and rumors swirled that air rights were in play, which “led to the belief that plans for a much larger building may be in the works,” the elected officials wrote.

Extell’s plans for the site came as no surprise to Council member Rosenthal’s legislative and land use policy director, Sean Fitzgerald. However, he said that there were remaining questions about how rights from the Jewish Guild for the Blind, which come from an R-8 zoning district, could be applied to Extell’s development site, which is under R-10 equivalent zoning.

“We’ve been waiting to see what actually gets filed,” Fitzgerald said.

So all these NY politicians, instead of solving the city’s many issues, are now anti-development watchdogs and building size monitors.