Can you point specifically to where in the budget librarys were cut to pay for NYPD vehicles?

the biggest flex would be I live in a pizza shaped studio

Yeah but these buildings are not priced to sell. They're priced to price. If they wanted to price to sell there woudl be no full floor units they would just cram 7 2 bedrooms on every floor. They price to price on purpose, because it's an investment building not a residential building. Literally nothing about standard residential development or real estate dynamics applies here. You talking about "2nd floor doesn't have a kitchen and that's weird" like whoever buys the top 3 floors of this building give a shit about the cost of building a kitchen. Who is buying the top two floors and being like "damn it I have to spend $2M and wait 9 months for my kitchen, to move in!"

See: the election of Eric Adams and Kathy Hochul. Progressives haven’t won in any state or citywide elections.

But let's cut $37M from the library budget.

You would be right if it wasn't for the fact that you're wrong. Progressive "defund" politicians won their races in landslides and moderates lost seats.

Interesting, maybe ev makes sense for their use case. Plus acceleration!

Again, I said nothing of what you said. Im aware of what LPC does I’m currently dealing with them for my building. I’m talking about “significant development” meaning turning it into a tower. Not sure why you’re still confused.

> it’s impossible to do significant development.

Changing the building's interior layout, utilities, demising walls, or changing the use represents significant development. You can do these things with LPC designation. You'd apply for a Certificate of No Effect, if I recall from the few times I did this as a project manager in the city.

Edit: The original poster changed their tune and claimed it couldn't be developed into a tower. They'd still be wrong though; see Hearst Tower as an example.

I literally said none of what you said.

Ay Yo! You think you're some kind of Ninja Turtles? Oh!

There aren't many interior landmarks registered with the LPC, and this building is not one of them. Exterior landmarks are required to preserve the facade and appearance; you can still do significant upgrades and modifications to the interior.

It would be impossible to build with modern construction techniques.

Not sure what your first sentence has to do with anything I said. I didn’t say it didn’t have any of those things.

My point is they should have gone with one full floor and a duplex, thus lowering the price point so they’ll be easier to sell, people willing to drop 100m for an apartment is already slim pickings and 250m is even smaller even for NY.

What could happen is these two are on the market, and if someone actually does want a triplex, they buy both and combine them. Doing a triplex makes their options much more limited.

Also, in terms of them splitting, it’s certainly a possibility. However, they built themselves into a corner as they’re not designed to be two apartments. The first floor doesn’t have a BR worthy of being a primary. Second floor doesn’t have a kitchen nor living room. This will require significant work to convert not to mention moving of plumbing.

The children yearn for the mines.

*its

Even still. If you need 60 mil in repairs you're still at the same price as one of the billionaire's row penthouses. Given the choice, I know what I'm spending my tax return on.

Redditors literally want high rises to be built in prime village lol.

First of all, even if a huge development is in the village, like Greenwich Lane, it will not be affordable and do anything to solve housing problem. Secondly, there are already developments in the village, they’re on far west village and there are many huge developments including Superior Ink.

Good. Sick of those whiners always asking for more money.

Yup. What’s happening here is very simple. The owner purposely neglected the building so that they can make DOB force a demolition so they get around Landmark. Developers have used that tactic for ages along with “accidental” fires that force them to destroy the building.

More like the owner purposely neglected it so they can get around Landmark and demolish it. The same happened to the oldest house on Chelsea.

Converting the floor plans for use as condos could be a little awkward, but I have to think it would be easier than converting the postwar super wide office towers to condos, no?

I couldn'd afford to live in J. Heights anymore and i so loved the area. T_T

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the only thing i dont like about it is i wouldnt be able to afford the penthouse.