East Midtown zoning map showing proposed maximum FARs by the NYC Department of City Planning, courtesy of YIMBY.
This in-person program will also be streamed online.
The goal of the rezoning of East Midtown – the 78-block district that stretched from East 39th to East 57th Street, from Third to Madison Avenues – was, in the words of the New York Times when it was passed in 2017, “to revitalize what was once the core of corporate activity in New York City.” Now, nine years later, we’ll revisit that history and assess the impact of East Midtown Rezoning.
First proposed by the Bloomberg administration in 2012 and ultimately adopted by the City Planning Commission and the City Council in August 2017, East Midtown Rezoning was a public policy measure designed to tip the shifting scales back from the government-subsidized competition of the new, Class A towers of Hudson Yards and Ground Zero and toward the transit-rich, but aging office district anchored by Grand Central and Park Avenue – the original Terminal City.
The program will bring together a panel of experts who helped to frame the draft and details of the East Midtown Special District, as well as those who have designed buildings within its borders. They will explain the challenges of its process and evaluate the outcomes to date.
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