Residents Fume Over Plans For 50-Story Tower At Seaport

[hrmjustin]

By: Magee Hickey

The Howard Hughes Corporation showed its preliminary plan for the South Street Seaport to Manhattan’s Community Board 1 on Tuesday night and residents did not like what they saw. Magee Hickey filed the following report.

The so-called new market of the old Fulton Fish Market was built in 1939 by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. It's been vacant and dilapidated for years and, luckily for developers, falls just outside of the historic district of the South Street Seaport.

Developers want to demolish that part of the Fish Market and replace it with a 50-story glass tower, a combo hotel and condo.

“Taller, thinner buildings have less of an impact on neighborhood, they cast less shadows than shorter, squatter buildings that are wider and while we know it’s a large building on a waterfront, it’s necessary in order to do a lot of the other things that the community is asking for,” said architect Gregg Pasquarelli.

http://www.ny1.com/content/news/199032/residents-fume-over-plans-for-50-story-tower-at-seaport

[hrmjustin]

1. I miss the fish market. I remember going with my parents down there.

Never smelled good but the fish tasted good.