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St. John's Terminal Project Gets Go-Ahead: Developer to Pay $100M for Pier 40 Air Rights
A historic City Council decision Thursday will enable a massive new development to go up at 550 Washington St. in Hudson River Park.

A historic City Council decision Thursday will enable a massive new development to go up at 550 Washington St. in Hudson River Park.

Preservationists are hailing this final phase of South Village historic designation as a big win for them.

They're resigned to the massive development happening in their neighborhood, but they're trying to get whatever they can from it.
The revised plan took away tall glass and concrete towers after preservationists said they had no place in the neighborhood.
Community board members aren't happy with all of them.
The owner plans to demolish 3 older buildings to construct a 6-story residential building in their place.
The original plan for two historic brownstones on Jane St. to be transformed into a mansion did not belong in the neighborhood, they said.
The sellers are hoping Hamilton fandom will raise their offer.
Sean Lennon has to remove a tree he allowed to grow outside his pad after being sued by his neighbors, actress Marisa Tomei's parents.
The lot has seen a handful of hotel and apartment plans over the past decade, but the Department of Buildings approved a new plan Aug. 26.
Housing prices are still going up but not at the pace they have been the past three years, according to new data from StreetEasy.
A large strip of W. 10th St. is now Sean Parker's.
Hudson River Park Trust wants to sell Pier 40's air rights to developers, but community members are wary of the developer's massive plans.
Gale Brewer wrote a proposal to deny land use and development rights to the developers of the St. John's Terminal site in Hudson Square.
The buildings, all owned by William Gottlieb Real Estate, were approved for demolition last week.