gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of October 26, 2008, including construction progress at two LEED hopeful residential projects- Neil Denari’s HL23 in Chelsea and the Costas Kondylis-designed 80 DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene, an overview of pending green building legislative initiatives in New Jersey, efforts to green the 2008 New York City Marathon, and a new code of conduct for two aspiring New York State wind power developers.
November 2nd, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Atlantic Yards"
UES Green Wall, Delays at Atlantic Yards, Reviewing the Lucida, & More Spec 8th Avenue Office Space
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of August 3, 2008, including the installation of a living wall above Pure Yoga on East 86th Street, more delays for Bruce Ratner’s controversial Atlantic Yards development, a review of Cook + Fox’ LEED hopeful Lucida condo project on the Upper East Side, and plans for another speculative office tower along 8th Avenue from Boston Properties and Related, in between 11 Times Square and 250 West 55th Street.
August 9th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
“Rampantly Narcissistic” LEED Condos, Paterson Support for Congestion Pricing, & Defiant Atlantic Yards
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of March 16, 2008, including thoughts on New York City’s current crop of high-end condo buildings- many of which will be LEED-certified- from the Times’ Nicolai Ouroussoff, Governor Paterson’s support for congestion pricing in Manhattan, and the refusal of Bruce Ratner’s “green” Atlantic Yards project to disappear, despite ongoing delays and devolving market conditions.
March 23rd, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Steps Forward for LEED Silver Atlantic Yards and Congestion Pricing, Green Amendments to New York Low Income Housing Credit, & Brownfields Redevelopment in New Jersey
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of January 27, 2008, including significant steps forward for the controversial LEED Silver Atlantic Yards development and congestion pricing schemes, as well as green changes from Governor Spitzer to the New York State Low Income Housing Tax Credit and more thoughts on the New Jersey Nets’ green initiative. As always, descriptions and links are after the jump.
February 2nd, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Taking a Hard Look at the New LEED for Neighborhood Development Standard
This month’s Gotham Gazette features a fascinating article by Tom Angotti that explores the new LEED for Neighborhood Development standard (”LEED-ND”). In addition to highlighting the relatively low number of LEED-certified buildings in New York City (of the fifteen certified buildings within the five boroughs, ten are in Manhattan, and three of these belong to public agencies), Angotti explores the relationship between individual projects and the neighborhoods around them. (Full disclosure: Dr. Angotti was one of my favorite grad school planning professors).
January 23rd, 2008 | Meredith Taylor | 2 comments | Continued
(Still N.J.) Nets Shooting to Wash Fans in Green
Leaving aside a foul-baiting flop here and a feigned hit-by-pitch there, sports as they are played are fairly straightforward. It’s when the front offices come into play that it’s time to turn the spam filter on. And so it is with the New Jersey Nets’ new “Shoot To Be Green” initiative. As one of many uninspiring old Nets billboard slogans proclaimed, “You can’t fake a fast break.” Greenwashing a franchise, however, is another story.
January 16th, 2008 | David Roth | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff*: Atlantic Terrace, Brooklyn, New York
Construction on Atlantic Terrace, an eighty-unit residential development at Atlantic and South Portland Avenues in Brooklyn will begin today, according to the New York Observer. Designed by Manhattan-based Magnusson Architects, 50 percent of the units at the $20 million, 10-story condominium will be set aside for affordable housing. (We’ve written previously about Dattner Architects’ 1870 [...]
October 22nd, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued