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West Side Story II
West Side Story II, the spring 2007 issue of the Newman Real Estate Institute’s journal Properties, actually began to germinate after the New York City Department of City Planning published a document entitled “Far West Midtown: A Framework for Development” that dealt with the area from 24th to 42nd Streets, from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River a few years ago.
This is highly valued real estate due to its proximity to the Midtown central business district and its great potential for future growth of the office economy. And it had been many years since the city had launched an extensive planning campaign for such a significant space. So the Newman Real Estate Institute, acting on the concept that design needed to be integrated with the basic issues of land use and zoning, held a series of public programs addressing these issues with scholars and critics and industry leaders coming together.
Please read the Introduction to the journal for a much more comprehensive history and updating. Then we think you will want to know more about the lively and diverse dialogs that ensued, one of the highlights being the academic/ professional teams from such notable universities as Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and the City University of New York, as they paired with the best architects the city has to present their plans for this fabulous city.
Contents
Spring 2007:
West Side Story II
INTRODUCTION
PUBLIC AGENDAS
The Preferred Plan of the City of New York
The Hon. Daniel Doctoroff
The Hon. Amanda M. Burden and Vishaan Chakrabarti
The Office of the Former Borough President of Manhattan
The Hon. C. Virginia Fields and Paul Buckhurst
Community Board 4 of Manhattan, Statement of Priorities
Walter Mankoff, Chair
INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES
The Future of the Penn Station District
Steven Roth
David Greenbaum
CIVIC CONTRIBUTION
The High Line
Robert Hammond
ALTERNATIVE INVESTIGATIONS
The Harvard Team
The Harvard School of Design
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Samuel Lindenbaum and Michael Sillerman, Esqs.
The Columbia Team
Columbia School of Architecture
Polshek Partnership Architects
Robert Davis/Margery Perlmutter, Esqs.
The Princeton Team
Princeton School of Architecture
Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects
Norman Marcus, Esq.
The City University of New York Team
City College School of Architecture
Davis Brody Bond Architects
Howard Goldman, Esq.
Academic and Professional Credits
COMMENTS
Richard Ravitch
Bold Visions/Public Investment
Steve Malanga
The Far West Side––Toward the Future
James Parrott
Some Economic and Fiscal Implications of the West Side Plan