The New York City Economic Development Corporation, the city entity spearheading the Gansevoort Square development, is holding two “public engagement” meetings on their plan to develop a 600-foot super-tall tower just north of the Whitney Museum in the Gansevoort Market. The meetings will be this coming Tuesday and Wednesday, January 7th and January 8th. The presentations at both meeting should be identical.

The City is rushing to invite developers to bid on this project (called a Request for Proposals) by late January. Demand that the City delay this Request for Proposals until there has been time for genuine community input and for that input to be incorporated into the plans. The current plan to build a giant tower containing as much as 75% luxury market-rate apartments is unacceptable on this city-owned lot. The City should focus on constructing a smaller building with 100% permanent affordable housing. And the site plan, which forces all of the housing into a supertall tower in one corner of the lot, is also not acceptable. The City negotiated this site plan with the Whitney and the Friends of the Highline with no community involvement; it may meet the needs of these two institutions, but it does not meet the needs of the community. The two meetings will be:

Tuesday, January 7th, 6:30 PM
Pier 57, Daffodil Classroom, also accessible via Zoom.

Wednesday, January 8th, 5:00 PM
Zoom only

To register for either (or both) sessions, go here.