The new face of a portion of Governors Island has been narrowed down to three proposals for its Center for Climate Solutions — amid ongoing legal fights over the island’s rezoning.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.The new face of a portion of Governors Island has been narrowed down tofor its Center for Climate Solutions, Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday — amid ongoing legal fights over the island’s rezoning.
Three final proposals have made the cut for the development of the research center, which will be tasked with exploring potential solutions to climate change and eventually located on the southern part of the island. The proposals, which were unveiled Thursday without identifying their respective authors, came from three teams spearheaded by universities that became finalists in December 2021.
The newly public renderings and overview of the final proposals were released against the backdrop of ongoing controversy over the southern half of Governors Island, which saw pivotal zoning changes approved by the New York City Council last year. Environmentalists and others had pushed back against the rezoning, the approval of which has laid the groundwork for new office, hotel, and retail space.
A lawsuit filed in September 2021 by Robert Manning, a Lower Manhattan resident and a leading opponent against rezoning efforts on Governors Island, said the overhaul of the area’s zoning “violates both the letter and the spirit of the” that originally transitioned federal ownership of the island into local control for the price of $1.
The agreement specified certain restrictions that included preserving public access and maintaining the island’s historic character for educational purposes. Manning’s case is ongoing in Manhattan Supreme Court, and has
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