Trump SoHo a go, for now
The city’s Board of Standards and Appeals voted unanimously today to deny an appeal by preservationists and neighborhood groups to halt the construction of the towering Trump SoHo condo-hotel.
Residents opposed to the construction of the building have said that it subverts area zoning requirements by masquerading as a hotel that will permit owners to stay there for a limited amount of over the course of a year.
“It would be in one of the few quiet parts of the neighborhood that reminds you what it was like before the pioneers moved here,” said Sean Sweeney, president of the SoHo Alliance, a local advocacy group. “The sheer enormousness of it is completely out of scale with the neighborhood.”
Sweeney and others dismissed the BSA’s dismissal as unsurprising. The ruling cleared the way for the case to be brought before the New York State Supreme Court.
Phone calls to the Trump Organization were not immediately returned.
---David Freedlander
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Who is on this Board of Standards and Appeals a bunch of billionaires like Trump and our Mayor Billionaireberg. While we watch another neighborhood destroyed in the name of progress, our elected officials stand by with closed eyes and mouths shut. The fault that lets this and other neighborhoods fall to the billionaires developers of this world is that we elect billionaires to office to begin with. To look at the stadium deals for both the Yankees and Nets is all anyone has to look at to see you gets what they want and you doesn't. Billions of dollars in tax breaks,with promises of jobs and low income housing are promised but are always last to be delivered. To see this building being put up in this area is just another example of the rich getting what they want and to hell with the people that will have to live with it or move. Ronnie from MorrisPark