New York State Supreme Court Judge Jeffrey Oing granted a temporary restraining order today on the construction of a large city sanitation garage on West Street and Spring Street, according to an article at crains.com today by Marine Cole.
He will hold a preliminary hearing March 11.
The order was prompted by a suit brought by the St. John Center against the Department of Sanitation over a disputed property line of the site, which is located at 353 Spring Street, the article said, adding that "the St. John Center, at 340 West St., is a neighbor of the site of the planned sanitation garage, which the Department of Sanitation is leasing from United Parcel Service."
"St. John Center has pointed out there's a discrepancy about the property line," said Michael Kramer, who represents the plaintiff. The St. John Center, along with some of the local community boards, have opposed the sanitation garage because they consider it oversized.
"Since 2007, we've been fighting this garage," Mr. Kramer said. "Not the location, but the idea that it should house three sanitation districts instead of two." He said that the sanitation garage, which will be used to store and wash garbage trucks, house employees' facilities and temporarily store trash, should not house the midtown district equipment. That district runs from 14th to 59th Streets and from Lexington to Eighth avenues. "Why should we have trucks that service midtown?" he asked. Instead, it should be limited to District 1 on Canal Street and District 2 on the lower west side of SoHo and the West Village, he said.
The Department of Sanitation's plans call for a 427,000-square-foot, 120-foot-tall facility. The St. John Center and the local community boards have come up with their own design with an angled green roof called Hudson Rise Plan, which is 285,000 square feet and 75 feet tall.
"We're hoping the restraining order will give the mayor a chance to change its plans," Mr. Kramer said. "We're hoping it will force the city to design a smaller building."
Richard Dattner, the architect best known for the very popular P.S. 234 in TriBeCa, is the architect for the proposed garage facility as well as nearby proposed salt shed that is close to the James Brown house at 326 Spring Street that was erected in 1917 for an African-American aide to George Washington during the Revolution and some new residential condominium projects on Spring Street.
He will hold a preliminary hearing March 11.
The order was prompted by a suit brought by the St. John Center against the Department of Sanitation over a disputed property line of the site, which is located at 353 Spring Street, the article said, adding that "the St. John Center, at 340 West St., is a neighbor of the site of the planned sanitation garage, which the Department of Sanitation is leasing from United Parcel Service."
"St. John Center has pointed out there's a discrepancy about the property line," said Michael Kramer, who represents the plaintiff. The St. John Center, along with some of the local community boards, have opposed the sanitation garage because they consider it oversized.
"Since 2007, we've been fighting this garage," Mr. Kramer said. "Not the location, but the idea that it should house three sanitation districts instead of two." He said that the sanitation garage, which will be used to store and wash garbage trucks, house employees' facilities and temporarily store trash, should not house the midtown district equipment. That district runs from 14th to 59th Streets and from Lexington to Eighth avenues. "Why should we have trucks that service midtown?" he asked. Instead, it should be limited to District 1 on Canal Street and District 2 on the lower west side of SoHo and the West Village, he said.
The Department of Sanitation's plans call for a 427,000-square-foot, 120-foot-tall facility. The St. John Center and the local community boards have come up with their own design with an angled green roof called Hudson Rise Plan, which is 285,000 square feet and 75 feet tall.
"We're hoping the restraining order will give the mayor a chance to change its plans," Mr. Kramer said. "We're hoping it will force the city to design a smaller building."
Richard Dattner, the architect best known for the very popular P.S. 234 in TriBeCa, is the architect for the proposed garage facility as well as nearby proposed salt shed that is close to the James Brown house at 326 Spring Street that was erected in 1917 for an African-American aide to George Washington during the Revolution and some new residential condominium projects on Spring Street.
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Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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