Topic: Department of City Planning
The New York Observer | 2009-02-03 16:02:50
<div><p>The Bloomberg administration today launched an initiative to overhaul a portion of the South Bronx, as the Department of City Planning began the public review for its “Lower Concourse” rezoning. The proposed plan would allow for about 3,400 new apartments in a 30-block area surrounding the southern end of the Grand Concourse, which ...
The New York Observer | 2008-11-26 16:02:04
<div><p>If their paper trail is any evidence, the ungodly economy is not preventing Mort Zuckerman and Stephen Ross from moving forward with plans to build an enormous office tower at 740 Eighth Avenue.
</p><p>Word of the tower has been seeping into the news since last year, when Boston ...
The New York Observer | 2008-09-13 16:01:32
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</p><p>The Department of City Planning has named department insider Edith Hsu-Chen as its new director of the Manhattan office, which is currently seeking to rezone a large swath of the Lower East Side.
</p><p>Ms. Hsu Chen's promotion--she was previously deputy director ...
