Had the connection not been made, all traffic from West 59th to 72nd Street would have had to use West End Avenue, creating traffic havoc on WEA. CFESD forced Lincoln Center to restore and reopen the Park.ĬFESD also forced the developers of what was known as the Trump Buildings on the Upper West Side to connect Riverside Drive to Riverside Boulevard, the road onto which many of these buildings open. Lincoln Center also closed the Park to the community for 10 months a year. In 2010, Lincoln Center razed its neighboring Damrosch Park, a New York City park, by destroying nearly all of the trees and removing the famous Dan Kiley gardens, in order for Fashion Week to take it over. CFESD advocates for quality of life and a human-scale city, with access for residents to sky, sunlight, parks, and open space. That means true compliance, not simply manipulating the rules. For development to be environmentally sound it must comply with all applicable regulations, including those that relate to land use, open space, shadows, hazardous materials, transportation, air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, noise, and public health. The outcome was that we won the war, but lost the battle.ĬFESD has been advocating for environmentally sound development in New York City for nearly 30 years.
We showed that their zoning lot, made up of pieces of tax lots from other zoning lots on the Lincoln Towers super block, was illegal. The Committee for Environmentally Sound Development (CFESD)ĬFESD and MAS (Municipal Arts Society) initiated a lawsuit on October 25, 2017, when 200 Amsterdam Avenue was only a hole in the ground, in order to stop this oversized structure.
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