Developers of Upper West Side Condo Tower May Have to Deconstruct 20 Floors (Amsterdam: sales)
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A judge has ordered that the city revoke the building permit for 200 Amsterdam Avenue.
In an extraordinary ruling, a State Supreme Court judge has ordered the developers of a nearly completed 668-foot condo tower on the Upper West Side to remove as many as 20 or more floors from the top of the building.
The decision is a major victory for community groups who opposed the project ...
A judge has ordered that the city revoke the building permit for 200 Amsterdam Avenue.
In an extraordinary ruling, a State Supreme Court judge has ordered the developers of a nearly completed 668-foot condo tower on the Upper West Side to remove as many as 20 or more floors from the top of the building.
The decision is a major victory for community groups who opposed the project ...
The headline and what's bolded are assertions made by you and the NYT. What was actually said was:
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Justice W. Franc Perry ordered on Thursday that the Department of Buildings revoke the constructing allow for the tower at 200 Amsterdam Avenue close to West 69th Street and take away all flooring that exceed the zoning restrict. Exactly what number of flooring would possibly want to be deconstructed has but to be decided, however underneath one interpretation of the legislation, the constructing may need to take away 20 flooring or extra from the 52-story tower to conform to the regulation.
Later in the article it states:
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What comes subsequent is unclear. While additional litigation would successfully postpone any disassembly of the tower, gross sales on the luxurious rental would even be held up...Even if the choice is upheld, partially deconstructing a tower of this dimension presents its personal set of logistical quandaries: How a lot of the constructing violates the zoning legislation? How will the flooring be eliminated?
Basically stating, As it's already built then how does one "un-build" it. Past times this type of ruling happened, happened before the floors were built.
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