One57 at 157 W. 57th St. Towers Over Central Park (Evan Joseph)

Manhattan Community Board Five has voted in favor of a resolution calling for an immediate, temporary moratorium on new construction of all buildings 600 feet and higher that are not undergoing public review, especially those with heights sufficient to cast shadows over Central Park. 

The board outlined its concerns in a new policy brief, noting that seven new supertall buildings are already under construction along 57th Street and five more along the 57th Street corridor are already in the planning stages.

"There's actually such a lack of transparency that it is difficult to understand what developers and property owners are actually planning," said Layla Law-Gisiko, chair of the Central Park Sunshine Task Force of Community Board Five. "There's no mechanism for us or the city for us to understand ahead of time what's in the planning" .......Continue Reading

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