Posted Oct 14, 2018, 3:54 PM
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Looks at these a-holes. Just look at them! 
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Lawsuit to Block 200 Amsterdam Filed: ‘We Do Not Want a Bunch of Safe Deposit Boxes in the Sky’
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The Committee for Environmentally Sound Development (CFESD) filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court on Wednesday, challenging the ruling of the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA), regarding the legality of the zoning lot that will allow a residential building at 200 Amsterdam Avenue and 69th Street to rise 668’ high.
On Friday morning, supporters of the lawsuit gathered across the street from the construction site for a rally/fundraiser that was high spirited and well attended. The sound of hammering was constant in the background; an enormous crane loomed overhead; construction workers covered the two or three floors that have already been built.
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“The fact that you see some concrete going up is not definitive,” said Richard D. Emery, a noted civil rights attorney, who is representing CFESD. “This fight is not over. We have exacted from these people an agreement that nothing they build can be used to their benefit in the legal case to prove how much they have already invested. They’re building at their own risk. They may have to take this down.”
SJP Properties, the developer, doesn’t believe that will happen. In an email to WSR, a spokesperson wrote: “200 Amsterdam’s zoning permits have been exhaustively reviewed by both the Department of Buildings and the BSA, the two city agencies with the highest authority to interpret NYC’s zoning codes. Following thorough analysis and public testimony, both agencies determined that the building fully conforms with the city’s zoning laws.”
Emery doesn’t put much stock in the BSA’s determination. “The Board of Standards and Appeals — a lot of them mayoral appointees — has essentially ceded zoning in any area of the city to the developers, who simply declare what a zoning lot is,” he contended. “That is a very serious degradation of the protections that zoning gives people in this city. And that’s really the essence of the lawsuit.”
Tom Devaney, Senior Director of Land Use & Planning at the Municipal Art Society of New York, which joined the fight against 200 Amsterdam about a year ago, called the BSA’s ruling “a horrible precedent.”
“We depend on zoning to protect our neighborhoods and give us a sense that there are predictable actions that work in our favor and we have a say in,” Devaney said. “The decision by the BSA is an affront to this predictability. Once again, we find the city and the BSA siding with developers and private interests over public interests.”
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