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New Developments in the News

OCTOBER 19, 2009




TriBeCa residents craft a community-friendly version of a trash-truck garage; Nouvel MoMA tower gets its wings clipped but grows fins.

Plans for a massive 3-district sanitation truck garage in TriBeCa have met with opposition from local community activists. The opponents of the original plan–including musicians Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed and a handful of celebrity residents–have proposed an alternative plan, which they're calling "Hudson Rise." The smaller, more complex alternative plan proposed by the community group includes green space, community facilities and connections to Pier 40 which were not provided in the original version.

The controversial mixed-use tower planned for the area just to the west of the Museum of Modern Art has been in the news again recently. The tower, originally planned to rise to 1,250 feet, lost 200 feet in a vote by the City Planning Commission. The Commission argued that the tower's top was not up to the "aesthetic standards of a building that would compete in height with the city's most famous towers." Architect Jean Nouvel has reportedly unveiled a new proposal for the building's zenith that includes "reflective fins."