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They can rezone all they want; doesn't matter when permits have already been pulled. Heck, the developers might even be covertly funding the NIMBYs; as a downzoning would make this project more valuable by blocking all neighboring towers except their own.

But the Department of City Planning doesn't do spot-rezoning, DeBlasio has come out against building height limits in this part of Manhattan, and the Planning boss (Carl Weisbrod) has been even more emphatic in his support of sliver towers. But NIMBYism is a good way to score political points, so I'm sure the local councilperson will continue to whine and cry long after the building is built (as you see in Brooklyn Heights right now, where NIMBYs are still railing against the height of an already completed building).