All Posts Tagged With: "Mayor Bloomberg"
Mega-Rich Go Green, Bloomberg’s Global Warming Task Force, MTA’s Green Escalators, & Randall’s Island Green Roof
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of August 10, 2008, including developer Joseph Moinian’s 1500-foot-deep geothermal well on Park Avenue, Mayor Bloomberg’s Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, difficulties as the MTA turns on its new green escalators, the installation of a 7000-square-foot green roof on Randall’s Island, and more green legislation for both New York City and New Jersey.
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17Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Cabbies Concerned Over Bloomberg Bid to Turn Fleet Hybrid
Early last week, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the city has struck a deal with several major automobile manufacturers to guarantee a monthly supply of hybrids to New York City’s taxi drivers, securing 200 Altima hybrids from Nissan, 50 Malibus from Chevy, and 50 Ford Escapes. The purpose of the deal is to place New York cabbies at the front of the line for the hybrids, which are currently in high demand all over the country. 1300 of New York’s taxis have already gone hybrid, saving drivers precious fuel money and, of course, reducing the city’s carbon emissions. The 300 figure was crafted to exceed the 210 per month that the Taxi and Limousine Commission estimates are necessary to satisfy new fuel efficiency standards for the taxicab fleet (25 miles per gallon beginning in October). Still, the plan is being met with some resistance.
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21Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Power at Ground Zero, Midtown Office Vacancies, & PlaNYC Brownfields Office
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of June 8, 2008, including the Port Authority’s selection of a fuel cell provider for clean power at the World Trade Center redevelopment, an increase in Class A Midtown office vacancies since the start of the year thanks to an influx of new and subleased space from, among others, Bank of America Tower, the creation of a new office to expedite the redevelopment of New York City brownfields, and the first-ever America-Israel Green Buildings Conference held in the Meadowlands.
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15Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Merrill Lynch at Ground Zero? Grant for Greenbelt & High-Speed Link to D.C.
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of May 25, 2008, including a report that Merrill Lynch may anchor one of Larry Silverstein’s LEED Gold-seeking Greenwich Street towers at the World Trade Center site, a $15,000 grant for the Greenbelt condo project in Brooklyn from local utility company National Grid, and a push from Mayor Bloomberg for high-speed rail service under two hours between New York City and D.C.
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31May2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
NYC Green Building Competition Opens, Office Building of the Year in Westchester, & Green Efforts Lagging Upstate
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of April 6, 2008, including the launch of the 2008 New York City Green Building Competition, BOMA’s award of Office Building of the Year to Westchester One in White Plains, which will seek LEED certification, sustainable initiatives at the historic Duke Farms outside of Princeton, New Jersey, and concern from the Buffalo News that green building practices are lagging throughout Western New York State.
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13Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Handel Architects’ Millennium Tower Residences in Battery Park City
The 35-story Millennium Tower in Battery Park City (”BPC”), developed by Millennium Partners and completed last year, was one of the first residential high-rises to earn a LEED Gold rating in New York City (The Solaire & The Helena). The unassuming brick-and-aluminum-clad condominium building, designed by Handel Architects with Steven Winter Associates serving as green consultants, incorporates an honest commitment to cleaner water and air and lower energy costs. gbNYC recently discussed the building in the aftermath of its installation of the first microturbines in the city pursuant to the new rule which was enacted by Mayor Bloomberg last December.
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7Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Forum Launches for Preservation Efforts Across New York City
gbNYC is a frequent advocate that the most sustainable of construction practices is to respect existing buildings, particularly in as dense a place as New York City where our stock is diversified across every sector of the real estate market. Now, New Yorkers interested in preservation have a new outlet to help shape the future of the city’s historic treasures over the next 22 years. Preservation Vision: NYC’s 15-minute online survey aims to gather input from the entire preservation community as the first phase of a program designed to analyze successes and form a short-list of ideas, come up with recommendations based on these findings, and issue a report by the end of the year to be circulated among a wider audience.
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3Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
New PAC to Recycle Local, Lazy Politicians
A new political action committee (”PAC”) will earmark funds to help elect local politicians that fight global warming—and “recycle” those that do not. The Climate Action PAC, set up by the non-partisan New York League of Conservation Voters, will target New York’s state legislature this year, and in 2009 plans to contribute to local races across the state, including New York City’s. The PAC will offer both “direct financial support and independent campaign expenditures,” according to the group, and has set up a web site to recruit new members and outline its goals. In addition to pursuing sources of renewable energy, the PAC wants to support congestion pricing (which of course passed a significant hurdle yesterday at the City Council level), the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and power-plant siting reform.
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1Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
David & Joyce Dinkins Gardens: First Green Exclusively Affordable Housing Development in Harlem
On Monday, Jonathan Rose Companies and the Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement (“HCCI”), co-developers of David & Joyce Dinkins Gardens, opened the $19.5 million, 85-unit green building at 263 West 153rd Street, just across the Harlem River from Yankee Stadium between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Macomb Place. The project is named for former New York City Mayor David Dinkins and his wife- Mr. Dinkins is the only African-American to serve as mayor in Gotham’s history- and the development is part of Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to build 165,000 units of affordable housing for 500,000 New Yorkers over the next ten years.
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1Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 4 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.
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2Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Deadline Approaching on Congestion Pricing Recommendation
Back in April of last year, Mayor Bloomberg proposed implementing congestion pricing in Manhattan as part of his PlaNYC initiative. As the day for a recommendation to Governor Spitzer draws near, it seems an opportune time to check in on how the process is going. The Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission, a 17-member state authority appointed in July, is charged with evaluating the Mayor’s plan and four other alternative plans. On January 10, the commission released an interim report examining each of the five proposals and outlining their pros and cons.
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25Jan2008 | Meredith Taylor | 0 comments | Continued
Tishman Speyer Wraps Rockefeller Center in Green for Holidays
Just in time for the holidays, and as a nice complement to the efficient LED lights that will grace this year’s Christmas tree, Tishman Speyer has installed 363 solar panels on the roof of 45 Rockefeller Plaza. Last week, at the same press conference announcing both of these initiatives, Tishman, which has owned the complex […]
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27Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
10,000 Sq. Ft. Green Roof Approved for Village’s P.S. 41
Public School 41 received approval last Thursday from the School Construction Authority (”SCA”) for a 10,000-square-foot green roof. The school, located at 116 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, will begin installing the roof next summer. P.S. 41 has retained the Jonathan Rose Companies to supervise the project, which is known as Gell- the Greenroof […]
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15Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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