Gothamist: Critics Say Trump SoHo Not Transient Enough

gaycurmudgeon

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:57:23 -0500

Aren't there zoning laws in New York City anymore?!!! If you live in this neighorhood and allow crap like this to go up, you deserve it.

chair

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:56:41 -0500

The company I work for is going to be moving into the building on the NW corner of that intersection. Needless to say, I'm not psyched about the mostrosity they're going to be throwing up there. You can see from the picture how much taller it is than anything else in the neighborhood. I'm also curious to see how the traffic is going to work there, what with all the tunnel traffic that will be going right by the building. I can only assume the building is going to make a bad situation worse.

Robot

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:20:37 -0500

I feel bad for the folks who work on the west side of 155 6th Avenue. I used to work there and we would see the most beautiful sunsets. Now the lucky ones will be in the new building. I hope they appreciate those views more than the overpriced restaurants and shops a few blocks away.

anonymous

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:22:36 -0500

#2/11: cockroach? die of cancer? Check yourself into therapy. This is a discussion about a development, those words you use are unnecessary. This will get built and all of you will buy the entire Apprentice back catalog on blue ray DVD.

progress? hardly...

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:00:17 -0500

#7 will you die of cancer already? thanks

Jangler

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:00:00 -0500

I walked past 246 Spring St. earlier today and construction has already started.

Princess Coldstare

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:39:58 -0500

Alas! Will Misshapes ever be the same again with this monument to poor taste at our doorstep? This is Gawker, right?

Miquel

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:57:50 -0500

You anti-NIMBYists would be singing a different tune if it were a shelter... captalista-imperialista

anonymous

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:44:15 -0500

#2: this isn't "unchecked". If there were the slightest case for anything to hold this up, the nimbots would find it. The "transient" claim is the best example of this.

no Trump

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:23:25 -0500

I don't understand why NIMBY is such a bad thing? Are people not allowed to have a say about what happens to their community anymore? Should we just passively accept any development no matter how big and ridiculous? NIMBY is just a quick and easy retort used by people who don't know what they are talking about. NIMBYism is a pain in the ass when the projects in question are things people DO want (i.e. not another Trump project). People want criminals off the streets but they want the prisons built elsewhere. They want trash and recycling but the transfer stations have to be "somewhere else". They want convenient public transportation but they don't want the bus depots or subway construction on their block.

Jersey City Mafia

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:13:58 -0500

I think high density development makes sense for a middle class condo, where most people take the subway, but this is a car centered rich person's condo. Not to mention, the people who at these developments probably will all have a parking space in the basement garage. These are rich people, they drive everywhere or take car services everywhere! They will clog up the street with long lines of SUVS entering and exiting the basement parking garage and taxicabs idling out front.

park

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:31:19 -0500

MissPinkKate

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:31:17 -0500

Transient hotel, my ass. Like some rich person is going to pay for a "condo" and then rent it out to other people when they aren't there. Yea, right.

populism is right

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:10:23 -0500

dear anonymous, i sincerely hope that our (unchecked) "free market" economy smashes you like the cockroach you are.

anonymous

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:32:28 -0500

Who cares if its a hotel or a condotel? If it were a straight hotel, these nimbys would find something else to latch on to as the "crime of the century". Nimbys, get over yourselves.