Preservation group opposes conversion and remodeling of Columbus Circle modernist building. The First Department has affirmed the lower court’s decisions on Landmark West’s challenge to EDC’s sale of Two Columbus Circle to the Museum of Arts and Design. 2 CityLand 141 (Oct. 15, 2005). The appellate court ruled that the group’s challenges to the legality of the Landmark Preservation Commission’s procedures were improperly raised for the first time on appeal. The court also rejected the … <Read More>
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Court rejects challenges to sale of Two Columbus Circle
Preservation group opposes conversion and remodeling of modernist building. Landmark West, a historic preservation group, seeks to stop the EDC’s sale of the nine-story modernist building at Two Columbus Circle to the Museum of Arts and Design. In February 2005, it lost its first two challenges to the sale, (2 CityLand 28 (Mar. 15, 2005)), when the First Department ruled that the Landmarks Preservation Commission was under no obligation to hold a public hearing on … <Read More>
Sale of Two Columbus Circle gets go ahead
Environmental study ruled proper; Landmarks not obligated to hold public hearing. Two Columbus Circle, the white marble-clad, nine-story modernist building fronting Columbus Circle, was at the center of two suits filed against the City. The building, commissioned in 1964 by the A & P Supermarket heir Huntington Hartford for the Gallery of Modern Art, was donated to the City in 1980 after the Gallery closed. In 2003, the Planning Commission approved its sale from the … <Read More>