Mt. Sinai Hospital is seeking variances from the city's Board of Standards & Appeals at its July 1 meeting to permit it to erect an 11-story Medical Center for Science and Medicine on Madison Avenue between 101st and 102nd Street and a 600-foot-high, mid-block residential building at 4 East 102nd Street that would be built by the Durst Organization Inc., and Sidney Fetner & Associates.
The residential building, which be about 40 stories tall, would be on property owned by the hospital and its sale to the residential developers would help pay for the new medical center.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is the architect for both projects.
Community Board 11 recently voted to oppose the variances. In his report to the full board meeting May 20, 2008, Robert Rodriguez, chairman of the community board, said that "While Mt. Sinai made a very strong effort to engage the community and this board, in the end the board felt that the positive aspects of the development would not outweigh the potential negative effects on the community," adding that the hospital had "not met the requirements that are set" by the Board of Standards and Appeals."
Previously, Mr. Rodriguez had noted that the project has "no provision for affordable housing
The new tower, if built, would be considerably taller than the Annenberg Building in the center of the hospital complex in a courtyard off Fifth Avenue, a dark, metal-clad building that is one of the tallest buildings east of Central Park.
Documents on file with the Department of Buildings indicated that the residential tower would have 81 units but documents that are part of the New York City Environmental Quality Review for the project said it would have about 312,660 "zoning square feet" and that "to account for a reasonable maximum build scenario, a unit size of 1,000 zsf has been assumed, resulting in a total of 313 dwelling units."
Jordan Barowitz, a spokesman for The Durst Organization, told CityRealty.com that the number of apartments would be approximately 150.
The site is now occupied by four buildings, only one of which, the 12-story, mid-block, Nurses' Residence, would remain under the plan.
The new medical building would have an atrium along Madison Avenue and contain about 50,000 square feet of clinical facilities, 8,000 square feet of research imaging space, about6,000 square feet of meeting rooms and education spaces, about 20,0000 square feet of core lab and lab support space, about 169,200 square feet of research laboratories and related functions as well as about 5,500 square feet of conference and lunge area and 70,000 square feet of below-grade imaging and lab support space.
The environmental review study indicated that the proposed project would have no significant adverse impacts on shadows, community facilities, open space, air quality, and traffic.
An article by Gregory Beyer in the June 15, 2008 edition of The New York Times said that the Durst and Fetner groups plan "an adjacent condo tower" next to the 11-story medical building.
The residential building, which be about 40 stories tall, would be on property owned by the hospital and its sale to the residential developers would help pay for the new medical center.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is the architect for both projects.
Community Board 11 recently voted to oppose the variances. In his report to the full board meeting May 20, 2008, Robert Rodriguez, chairman of the community board, said that "While Mt. Sinai made a very strong effort to engage the community and this board, in the end the board felt that the positive aspects of the development would not outweigh the potential negative effects on the community," adding that the hospital had "not met the requirements that are set" by the Board of Standards and Appeals."
Previously, Mr. Rodriguez had noted that the project has "no provision for affordable housing
The new tower, if built, would be considerably taller than the Annenberg Building in the center of the hospital complex in a courtyard off Fifth Avenue, a dark, metal-clad building that is one of the tallest buildings east of Central Park.
Documents on file with the Department of Buildings indicated that the residential tower would have 81 units but documents that are part of the New York City Environmental Quality Review for the project said it would have about 312,660 "zoning square feet" and that "to account for a reasonable maximum build scenario, a unit size of 1,000 zsf has been assumed, resulting in a total of 313 dwelling units."
Jordan Barowitz, a spokesman for The Durst Organization, told CityRealty.com that the number of apartments would be approximately 150.
The site is now occupied by four buildings, only one of which, the 12-story, mid-block, Nurses' Residence, would remain under the plan.
The new medical building would have an atrium along Madison Avenue and contain about 50,000 square feet of clinical facilities, 8,000 square feet of research imaging space, about6,000 square feet of meeting rooms and education spaces, about 20,0000 square feet of core lab and lab support space, about 169,200 square feet of research laboratories and related functions as well as about 5,500 square feet of conference and lunge area and 70,000 square feet of below-grade imaging and lab support space.
The environmental review study indicated that the proposed project would have no significant adverse impacts on shadows, community facilities, open space, air quality, and traffic.
An article by Gregory Beyer in the June 15, 2008 edition of The New York Times said that the Durst and Fetner groups plan "an adjacent condo tower" next to the 11-story medical building.
Architecture Critic
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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