The New York State Appellate Division unanimously approved plans of the Sanitation Department to go ahead with a large facility including a salt-storage shed at Spring Street and the West Side Highway yesterday, according to an article by Dareh Gregorian in today's edition of The New York Post.
A celebrity-led coalition of SoHo and TriBeCa residents, hoping for a last minute reprieve from the construction of a Sanitation garage, had salt rubbed in the wound yesterday - and a lot of it," the article said, noting that actors Jennifer Connelly, Kirsten Dunst and James Gandolfini had campaigned against the facility.
"The ruling paves the way to move much of Sanitation's facilities from Gansevoort Street to near the entrance of the Holland Tunnel, much to the chagrin of those who live in the area and are concerned about a fleet of garage trucks in the neighborhood" and who felt that the city "should have broken the $400 million,120-foot-tallgarage down into smaller pieces around the city," the article said.
"The appeals court found that many of the group's objections were filed too late and that the city handled the matter properly," the article said.
A celebrity-led coalition of SoHo and TriBeCa residents, hoping for a last minute reprieve from the construction of a Sanitation garage, had salt rubbed in the wound yesterday - and a lot of it," the article said, noting that actors Jennifer Connelly, Kirsten Dunst and James Gandolfini had campaigned against the facility.
"The ruling paves the way to move much of Sanitation's facilities from Gansevoort Street to near the entrance of the Holland Tunnel, much to the chagrin of those who live in the area and are concerned about a fleet of garage trucks in the neighborhood" and who felt that the city "should have broken the $400 million,120-foot-tallgarage down into smaller pieces around the city," the article said.
"The appeals court found that many of the group's objections were filed too late and that the city handled the matter properly," the article said.
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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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