Renderings of the plans of The Olnick Organization to "fill in" parking lots at Lenox Terrace in Harlem with six new residential buildings were shown today at harlembespoke.blogspot.com.

The plans by Davis Brody Bond Aedas "don't quite meet the zoning requirements," the article said, adding that the lowest and highest of the proposed new buildings, 186 and 291 feet high, respectively, "dwarf the original apartment buildings, all 141 feet in height."

One commenter noted that the proposal is somewhat similar to the Columbus Square development on the Upper West Side that also added new buildings to a project's site.

The new buildings are shown in yellow in one of the renderings that is illustrated at the right.

The proposal would allegedly create four acres of "open space" by moving parking on the site underground and also add a considerable amount of retail space.

The Olnick Organization last month made a presentation to tenants of Lenox Terrace, to add six new residential towers to the 1,700-unit apartment complex in Harlem, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal by Wesley Lowery.

The existing, red-brick, six-building complex was built by the Olnick Organization in 1958 on three square blocks between Fifth and Lenox Avenues and 132nd and 135th streets.

"Olnick first developed the plan in 2003, but it languished amid a slow economy and tenant opposition," the article said, adding that the developer indicated that if it was "unable to secure rezoning," it "could move forward with an alternate expansion plan, which would contrast several midrise buildings ranging in size from eight floors to 15 floors" and that plan "described as 'blocky' in the presentation given to tenants, wouldn't retain the current sight lines and offers fewer amenities than the broader plan."

"'We are overwhelmingly and vehemently opposed to the notion of doubling the population in this three-square-block area,' says Delsenia Glover, president of the Lenox Terrace Association of Concerned tenants," the article said.

A spokeswoman for City Council member Inez Dickens, a Democrat who represents the area, said that "though talks are continuing, she still isn't on board, primarily because of the tenant's opposition. 'The councilwoman is concerned about the displacement of current tenants, as well as the ongoing change and gentrification of part of Harlem.'"

"Building six towers around the property would jeopardize the quality of life of the people who life here now," said Jeanette Spencer, a member of the tenants association," the article noted.

The building complex was designed by S. J. Kessler & Sons and is west of Riverton and south of Delano Village. The buildings in the complex have individual names such as Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana and the project reportedly attracted "affluent and professionally accomplished tenants, including Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton," according to "New York 1960, Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial," by Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman.