Good News for Tin Pan Alley?
Colleague, author and historian of fabulousness David Freeland brings us a piece of good news for Tin Pan Alley.
“My friend, tenants rights lawyer Robert Petrucci, who has been representing tenants in the West 28th Street buildings for a number of years, tells me that he has just received a favorable recommendation in his effort to establish the four buildings from 49 to 55 West 28th Street (which, incidentally, are among the most historically significant of Tin Pan Alley’s surviving edifices) as a single unit.
Petrucci explains that the findings will still need to be adopted by the NYC Loft Board, but that in these kinds of cases “acceptance is the norm.” What this means is that it would now be “very difficult,” according to Petrucci, for the individual buildings to be developed separately.”
For full info and historic pictures, see David’s blog: http://www.gothamlostandfound.com/
This is positive movement – but not quite enough. Now that the legal status is getting cleared up, and the buildings’ facades have been worked on, when when will the future be secured?