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UES 94th Street Rezone Gets Mixed Review At Community Presentation
Many welcomed the more than 100 affordable units at a proposed mid-block Yorkville tower. Others said it would destroy the neighborhood.

Many welcomed the more than 100 affordable units at a proposed mid-block Yorkville tower. Others said it would destroy the neighborhood.

Weill Cornell Medicine's new tower will replace a prominent East 74th Street church purchased years ago.

The 46-story, 452 unit mid-block development in Yorkville seeks to rezone a former manufacturing district
"Like you're on stage at the Hollywood Bowl," said a neighbor of the late noise and lights that kept an entire building awake for months.
The new 75-foot-tall building is one of the few new residential developments on the Upper East Side this year.
Sephardic Academy of Manhattan's renovations at their East 74th Street school caused "substantial damages" to their neighbor, claims a suit.
Critics rallied against Northwell's plans for a "Hudson Yards building"at Lenox Hill Hospital in a packed Wednesday night meeting.
A new interactive map details NYC's housing stock — and the Upper East Side gained 148 housing units as demand increased across the city.
The developer had previously said they were waiting for a new state tax break to be signed, but it appears they are done waiting.
The plans show a small increase to the 22nd floor from the plans first filed in 2022 and an overall slight decrease in size.
A new report compares the median one-bedroom rents in over 80 NYC neighbs, and shows 29 of them are more expensive than the Upper East Side.
A planned replacement building will have 20 fewer units as the current Spitzer-owned building, but will be more "contextual," he argued.
With 550 active permits for sidewalk sheds, the Upper East Side is tied with Midtown for having the most scaffolding in the city.
A Third Avenue Building on 97th Street used to house CUNY students. Now it will house 500 families.
Two sleep disorder diagnostic rooms qualify the Third Avenue medical development for a program meant for housing.
Most residents and passerby's on the traffic-snarled part of the neighborhood only first noticed the billboard when Patch pointed it out.
Community Board 8 voted to set up a task force to rezone several lots in upper Yorkville in an attempt to build affordable housing.
The corner of East 86 Street and First Avenue was slated for demolition late last year. Now it's getting flipped.
Memorial Sloan Kettering is seeking to finish a zoning plan that was originally scheduled to be discussed on September 12, 2001.
The cancer hospital officially filed plans Tuesday for a new 31-story inpatient hospital first announced last spring.
A 24-story residential building will replace a rat-filled lot on First Avenue neighbors had hoped to turn into a community garden.
The fate of a plaque on the old building's facade marking the Yankee star's birthplace was uncertain last fall.
The Council Member said that after many neighbor complaints, the site will utilize "hammer blankets" to try to mitigate the heavy noise.
Many community members responded with derision to plans to expand Lenox Hill hospital: "Basically, this is a vanity project."
Demolition permits were filed for two buildings more than a year after the owner declared intent to demolish most of the block.
A cannabis store on the first floor just opened there two months ago.
The hospital has submitted new zoning documents that largely pick up where they left things back in late 2020.
The late author's sprawling four-bedroom apartment on East 71st Street can be yours for $7.5 million.
"We just simply asked the church to love thy neighbor," said one East 91st Street resident. "And be somewhat compassionate."
The billionaire-owned mansion, where a woman was infamously trapped for days in 2019, has allegedly been damaged by a next-door doctor.
A nearly 100-year-old Yorkville building, home since the 1990s to a mental health facility, will be demolished by its nonprofit owner.
A Gilded Age landmark is allowing its lush ivy to grow out of control, damaging a next-door townhouse, according to a new lawsuit.
Unlucky tenants of two Upper East Side buildings can claim that their landlord is the worst in New York, a new Public Advocate report found.
A luxury Yorkville condo building broke promises when it gave a woman a parking spot too small for her bulky SUV, she alleges in a new suit.
A 15-story tower with just nine apartments may soon be coming to a Yorkville block where a small store building has stood since 1895.
This week, city inspectors found 130-degree water on the Upper East Side, roaches in Crown Heights, and more.
This week, city inspectors found mice in Astoria, no heat in Chelsea, no gas in Forest Hills, and more.
The island's 357-unit Riverwalk 9 building will mark the completion of a nine-building complex set in motion decades ago.
This week, city inspectors found roaches in Astoria, no heat in Forest Hills, lead paint in Washington Heights, and more.
"It's heartbreaking," says the owner of Aero Locksmith, one of a dozen businesses being displaced by Yorkville's latest major teardown.