Friends Of The Upper East Side Historic Districts: The Fight Continues: Make Your Voice Heard Once Again On July 29 At The City Planning ...

Press release from Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts:

July 26, 2021

Our battle to stop the New York Blood Center/Longfellow 334 foot tall commercial tower continues. Last week, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer held a public hearing on the issue, and while her recommendation isn't due until July 28th, the City Planning Commission has already scheduled its public hearing for July 29th. It is crucial that you attend the hearing and voice your concerns, even if you already spoke at the previous Community Board and Borough President hearings.

The hearing will be a hybrid between in-person and on Zoom. Instructions on how to participate either in-person or online, and testimony registration will be made available here, on July 29th, at 9:00 am. We expect this to be a long hearing and the Blood Center will be the second item on the agenda for the day, so for those who are planning to attend in-person, please be reminded that you may need to commit the entire, or much of, the day. The Coalition to Stop the Blood Center Tower is collecting information to have a sense of how many speakers will be testifying against the project, we encourage you to fill out the form here.

City Planning Commission Public Hearing

Thursday, July 29
10:00 am

Location:

City Planning Commission Hearing Room, Lower Concourse
120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271

This press release was produced by Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts. The views expressed here are the author’s own.