Goodbye Overbite Building: St Vincent's Can Demolish Landmark O'Toole Building!

After a long, bitter public battle, St. Vincent's hospital has won permission from the Landmarks Preservation Commission to raze the distinctive O’Toole Building in the West Village and build a 299-foot-tall medical tower. The hospital applied for, and was granted, a “hardship-status” exemption, which allows nonprofit landlords to demolish landmark buildings if they can prove that the building is preventing them from carrying out their charitable mission. Community groups, preservationists and local celebrities like Susan Sarandon have opposed the scope of the project, which also calls for a 235-foot-tall luxury condominium (in partnership with the Rudin Management Company). In a statement, hospital officials said they can now take "another step forward to building a 21st century, technologically advanced hospital for Manhattan’s West Side and Downtown."

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By John Del Signore in News on October 28, 2008 12:36 PM

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tsol

Buh-bye to brutalist architecture!

soopaman

I was blocked on my last message because I said Obama is a dooosh. If he wins NYS we belong to the middle east in 2yrs. Bin Ladin will have a penthouse on Park ave.

soopaman

fuck Obama and all the Obama-bots. If this moron wins NYC will belong to the midle east.

fun22watcher

Yes, Yes this has Nothing to do with Obama but some people want to eat their sour grapes early.
Down with the ugly building and put up something the people actually use.

rhonda718

anyone else struggling to find the connection between Obama and this story?

HUGO_MEGO

The are going to tear down a crappy building and put up a bigger and taller crappier building, and yes it will have a CVS, Starbucks, Chase and Duane Reade downstairs. Welcome to Obama's America.

NannyState

#4 is on the boards with a double!

soopaman

this is terrible. morons like you just want to see another garbage developer builing. This city is being deytroyed by all the imports who dont give a shit about its history. I bet you want to see a Starbucks and CVS go up there too right?

KiljoyWasHere

Ummm...does nyc need another luxury condo?

ed_Extinct

botu time! knock that junk down.

kapusta

you guys are right-on. that building's an ugly piece-o-crap. rip it down. the problem here is the faceless bureaucrats will just replace it with another ugly piece-o-crap... and the great circle of piece-o-crap life will continue...