Village Preservation is pushing back on the City’s rushed plan for a 60-Story, 600 ft. tall, 600-unit apartment tower on public land at Little West 12th and West Streets in the Meatpacking District, which would include 300-450 units of super-luxury housing and 150-300 housingunits of questionable “affordability.” We’re demanding that the process be slowed down (important decisions are expected in January), the height of the apartment tower be dramatically reduced, and all super-luxury housing be removed from this public site.

Read our letter to Councilmember Erik Bottcher HERE. 

We’ve created a brief slideshow that illustrates how dramatically out of scale the proposed tower would be, how ludicrously densely the City is seeking to shoehorn housing units into this site, and how unaffordable the relatively small number of “affordable” units would be to most New Yorkers. 

It’s critical that we get decision-makers to rethink this plan and this process. While driven by the City, it ultimately has to be approved by the City Council, which will largely defer to the local City Councilmember, Erik Bottcher. 

You can use the sample letter in the first button as your basis for your testimony before the Community Board.