Elected Officials Attend CB 7 Meeting on Riverside Center

We were pleased to see that time and attention that key elected officials are giving to Extell's Riverside Center project.

Councilwoman Gale Brewer attended most of the meeting, and paid close attention to the many views expressed.

NYS Senator Tom Duane attended, in spite of a very bandaged thumb. He had to leave after awhile, but a couple of his assistants stayed for the meeting, paying attention and taking notes.

While NYS Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal couldn't attend personally, I met Lindsey Allison, her chief of staff, who attended most of the meeting with another member of staff.

The issues with this development are plain, and laid out in earlier posts in this blog. They include:

• Keeping to the density limits of the Restrictive Declaration, which is still in force.
• Extell plays games with density calculation.
• The plans violate long-standing city policies.
• Extell plans a discredited towers-in-a-park design concept by a celebrity architect.

Thank you! We appreciate it! We'll remember!