This past Tuesday a crew with jackhammers dug up the foundation for the 100 Horatio Street 5G tower. They confirmed that they were removing the foundation and repaving the site with fresh concrete. The foundation for the 100 Jane Street tower has also been removed.

We have received no communication from Boldyn Networks, but they appear to be walking away from these locations. This follows the FCC rejecting Boldyn’s appeal of the State Historic Preservation Office’s findings that these towers would have adverse effects on the adjacent Greenwich Village Historic District and Gansevoort Market Historic District. These proposed towers have previously risen from the dead, but this particular battle now seems to be over. It’s been a long fight.

This may help set a precedent against siting 5G towers so close to historic districts. At a minimum, it may make Boldyn leery of attempting to do so in the future.

Boldyn previously withdrew or suspended their applications for two other West Village 5G towers, at 445 West Street and 771 Greenwich Street.

A huge thank you to the New York State Hi storic Preservation Office, State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Assemblymember Deborah Glick, City Councilmember Erik Bottcher, Rep. Jerry Nadler, Village Preservation (which has worked particularly hard on this issue), the Municipal Art Society, the Historic Districts Council, the Landmarks Conservancy and every single person who sent letters and comments!!!

UPDATE 10/17/24: Declarations of victory may be premature—Boldyn has informed us that despite paving over the tower foundations they have not yet made the decision to withdraw these applications, and may continue their attempts to construct towers at these sites. As always, stay tuned…