This project is being done by Fields Development of Hoboken. Mayor Fulop lives in one of their buildings. These guys are preferred developer with Steven as the were with Healy. So much for change. When are you going to realize all zoning is for sale. The improvements they are proposing are what they would normally have to do in NY to do a project. Here they play the shell game and get what they want. Say what you want about the suburbs, but they wouldn't tolerate these absurdities.

lol, ok. based on that, with Brooke Hansen making 61,000, her lack of discipline and common sense is to be expected and anticipated!

That would be fine with Healy or Jerry McCann, but Steven promised a change in the old pol system. It turns out that Steven is learned well from Jerry McCann and Healy, say one thing and do another.

The video says it all!!! Roll the tape as they say!

The hypocrisy is stunning!!! Dave Donnelly is and has been a marginal city employee for his entire career with the city. Steven talked about getting away from the political paybacks and moving to a more professional city government. He failed miserably with that promise. He never made an effort to even fulfill it. As I have said, the hypocrisy is stunning!!!

She is just what is needed. She is smart and has spunk!

He just didn't say it, he railed against it!!

I don't think it make any difference. The mayor has gone underground on this issue. The the Chief of Staff, who is very close to her and buried the issue. case closed!!! One good thing did come out of this, a new term is being used in city government, "a brooke" as in the mayor threw a "brooke" today about this issue or that issue.

So Morrell's merit is she sucked up to Steven and sold Healy down the drain during the campaign. So that is the standard, such up and having sold Healy down the drain. Steven was going to bring in a new wave of professionals in city government, not the old hacks-as he said!! So far, nothing but political hacks!!!

After an exhaustive national search(according to Morrell), the Mayor picks the guy in the next office. Steven/Ralando, what ever became of bringing in the best and brightest!! More political hacks. Everything Steven accused Healy of doing, he has done in spades! The only think missing hear is Healy!

lets hope so! She did a great job at Grove Street. Unfortunately, she didn't get the support she needed. And apparently, she didn't have the support of the Mayor or the new head of Cultural Affairs.

People live and work above substations in NY all the times, they are incorporated into the design, as the PA is doing in JC. Follow Jkims post, the planning board will be hearing two 38 story building later in the month.

One additional point, developers are still planning this city! nothing has changed, just the attorneys and fixers have changed. On any given day in city hall the developers and their attorneys are in a holding patterns waiting for their meetings with the mayor and staff to pitch higher and higher buildings that will overburden, and already overburdened street and Path system. The sad reality is nothing has changed, except everything now is compressed to fit into the mayor's run for Governor.

The numbers are correct. First, the legal settlement with Goldman gave him over 600 feet. Its in the court order. That is the court settlement. Second, what the PA builds and what they have the right to build are two separate things. You are correct to say the substation will be 8 stories, but they have the rights-zoning- to go much higher. The substation will be built so the air rights can be sold and built, that is according to brokers who have been shopping it. The air rights will bring them up to about 18 stories. And unfortunately, you are right, the skyscrapers have jumped Marin in a big way. And you can blame that one on both Healy and Steven, they both supported that one. Its nuts. All the more reason to save the powerhouse, and not bury it with a wall of skyscrapers!!1

put it this way, if Healy was mayor and she worked in Healy's office, Steven would be all over this, this morning. Crying that she needs to go and its a continuing sign of the incompetence and ineptitude of the Healy administration and the need for change. Well Steven, add Brooke to Razzolli, the Chief, and a slew of others over the last year. Here is a reminder for you, YOU ARE THE CHANGE YOU HAVE BEEN SCREAMING ABOUT FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS.

take a look at that rendering, now put the 600 ft 111 first street building in the picture across the street, the second tower of trump, the 18 stories on the triangle, the balance of Toll and the three URL buildings on the Harborside lots. With all that development going on around the Powerhouse, do you believe we can't fund a 40 million dollar gap to do the right thing at the Powerhouse. The city can do that in a heart beat. The question as
Ada Louise Huxtable put in in the obit for Penn Station:

"Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn?t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tin-horn culture. And we will probably be fudge not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed."

The city found 30 million for the Loews, they can bond off the increased taxes from the PAD to save this icon.

The the announcement by the Mayor's office of the imminent paste on tower to the Powerhouse, has marked the end of era in Jersey City. One can't help but think that this marks the end of the preservation movement in Jersey City. Make no mistake about it, if we can't save the Powerhouse, we have been completely compromised as a community. Perhaps Ada Louise Huxtable, the architectural critic for the New York Times captured it will in the "Farewell to Penn Station". This obituary for Penn Station, could be written today for our Powerhouse!

Farewell to Penn Station

Until the first blow fell no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Somehow someone would surely find a way to prevent it at the last minute-not-so-little Nell rescued by the hero-even while the promoters displayed the flashy rendering of the new sports arena and somewhat less than imperial commercial building to take its place.

It?s not easy to knock down nine acres of travertine and granite, 84 Doric columns, a vaulted concourse of extravagant, weighty grandeur, classical splendor modeled after royal Roman baths, rich detail in the solid stone, architectural quality in precious materials that set the stamp of excellence on a city. But it can be done. It can be done if the motivation is great enough, and it has been demonstrated that the profit motivation in this instance was great enough.

Monumental problems almost a big as the building itself stood in the way of preservation; but it is a shame of New York, of its financial and cultural communities, its politicians, philanthropists and planners, and of the public as well, that no serious effort was made. A rich and powerful city, noted for its resources of brains, imagination and money, could not rise to the occasion. The final indictment is of the values of our society.

Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn?t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tin-horn culture. And we will probably be fudge not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.

Ada Louise Huxtable, October 30, 1963, New York Times

Bingo!! I think you are on to something. The corner is a couple of blocks from the national model and highly successful prisoner reentry program! I wonder is Nancy and company walked down to that corner today!!

The trash aside, was she saying that the trash made police brutality acceptable? You can see that she is drunk and unhinged, but what does police brutality have to do with it.

The Woman represent the mayor!! She works in his office and has been his community rep since he took office. It looks like she was drunk or high or both. Its not a normal reaction. And what is she doing on the drive at 3 in the morning in the first place!! Very strange or she will collecting comp time for working over time.

I guess, the Bostwick residents having bought into "stop the drop". This woman is a representative a the Mayor and its a disgrace the way she has acted. Mike Razzoli move over in the office of emergency management, Mayor Fulop will need to bury Brook in that office as well!

I think the triangle will get like 18 stories!! on that small piece of land. and we will have 40 right across from it. That is just crazy.

My point is the the developers always pull the bait and switch. Cordish came because he sold the Jerry Healy on he fact that he could save the powerhouse. And he continued with that for the last 5 years, now all of a sudden, he can't do it. He needs 40 story towers to do. That is BS. If a tower is needed to save the building, Cordish should be the last person who's word you would take for it. And if a tower is really needed, the project should go out to bid. Allow the entire development community to be able to respond to it. And the mayor should establish a community panel to review those proposals and recommend one to the city council. That will take pay to play out of it and give the community a voice in the selection, for the first time. If we wanted a Healy developer to BS us, we would have voted for Healy!

The mayor has taken the word of Baltimore based developers, who haven't put a dime into the powerhouse. Not a dime to help save it!!! Has the mayor hired independent consultants and advisors to help put together a financial plan to save this important icon. The answer to that is NO. He has thrown that responsibility onto the community. Its careless and irresponsible for the Mayor not to hire real experts and come to the community with a plan to save the Powerhouse, not destroy it!

The the announcement by the Mayor's office of the imminent paste on tower to the Powerhouse, has marked the end of era in Jersey City. One can't help but think that this marks the end of the preservation movement in Jersey City. Make no mistake about it, if we can't save the Powerhouse, we have been completely compromised as a community. Perhaps ???????????Ada Louise Huxtable, the architectural critic for the New York Times captured it will in the "Farewell to Penn Station". This obituary for Penn Station, could be written today for our Powerhouse!

Farewell to Penn Station

Until the first blow fell no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Somehow someone would surely find a way to prevent it at the last minute-not-so-little Nell rescued by the hero-even while the promoters displayed the flashy rendering of the new sports arena and somewhat less than imperial commercial building to take its place.

It?s not easy to knock down nine acres of travertine and granite, 84 Doric columns, a vaulted concourse of extravagant, weighty grandeur, classical splendor modeled after royal Roman baths, rich detail in the solid stone, architectural quality in precious materials that set the stamp of excellence on a city. But it can be done. It can be done if the motivation is great enough, and it has been demonstrated that the profit motivation in this instance was great enough.

Monumental problems almost a big as the building itself stood in the way of preservation; but it is a shame of New York, of its financial and cultural communities, its politicians, philanthropists and planners, and of the public as well, that no serious effort was made. A rich and powerful city, noted for its resources of brains, imagination and money, could not rise to the occasion. The final indictment is of the values of our society.

Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn?t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tin-horn culture. And we will probably be fudge not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.

Ada Louise Huxtable, October 30, 1963, New York Times
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Its clear by the Judges decision that he was sending a message to the city and the community that the law trumps the politics. This is a very strong opinion to grant automatic site plan. Perhaps if the Mayor had hired a professional to run HEDC, he would have had better advice. Instead, Anthony Cruz comes off looking like a political hack of the first order.


http://www.brightandvarickcourtdecision.com/decision.pdf

What happened to the preservation community in JC. They helped save the Powerhouse from demolition. They have been silent on the powerhouse in recent years.

having followed this project for the past few years, this looks like a typical bait and switch on the part of the developer. Nothing has changed for the developer, Cordish has been the developer for over 5 years, so why now the need for a tower? I don't really trust any of these guys and their numbers. Who is checking the numbers. We see this bait and switch all the time and now the Fulop administration with its world class team of professionals is fall for the crap. With all the development that has taken place in JC, we are entitled to at least on decent project that we can be proud of. Just one!! The Powerhouse was to be that one and now the guys from Baltimore have BS the mayor and we are going to get the Jersey City version of the Atlantic City TAJ Mahal!!!

The planner followed the local and state laws, as they have done for years. The same laws that rebuilt the city and made it desirable for guys like you and other finger pointers to live here. Without their work, you would be living in Maplewood!

Dan, so, are you saying that the planners lied to the community.That the planners deliberately deceived the community to up zone the lot on Varick and Bright Street, because they are part of a vast development conspiracy to change the city to resemble Manhattan! You know better. The planners wrote the plan the way they saw it. Many of then live in the neighborhood and own homes in the neighborhood. They wrote the plan as they saw it. And in the process tried to address the critical need to entry level housing. That is what we pay the planners to do, plan and address the needs of the city!