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Manhattan is nowhere near full. There are huge swaths of the city that don't have tall buildings due to overly restrictive building codes. #UpzoneTheWestVillage
by harryh 8y ago
Manhattan is nowhere near full. There are huge swaths of the city that don't have tall buildings due to overly restrictive building codes. #UpzoneTheWestVillage
- jen20 8y agoI’ve previously been told (I’m not sure if it entirely true or not - it was by a west village resident!) that the west village has ground unsuitable for high rise construction.
- harryh 8y agoThere are issues with building the kind of skyscrapers you see in the FiDi or Midtown, but there is till plenty of room to grow. Huge chunks of the West Village have buildings of only 4-5 stories when it's definitely possible to build 3-4x higher.
- zjaffee 8y agoThe west village isn't primed for tall buildings (they can certainly be taller than they currently are) and is much denser than most people think it is, since the brownstones are often multifamily. But more than anything else, streets are much narrower there than other parts of Manhattan. I'd argue that the east village is more adequate for upzoning than the west village even though the east village is taller.
- harryh 8y agoI agree with your EV vs WV comparison. I just like the highlight the WV because it's such a rich person enclave with a community board that way way overdesignates buildings as "historic" as a way to stifle development.