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Packed BSA Room Debates 51-Story West Side Apartment Tower’s Fate

New York City’s Board of Standards and Appeals held a hearing on whether the permit for the proposed 668-foot condo skyscraper should be revoked.

Full House BSA The BSA played the hearing on speakers in the hallway as the number of attendees was beyond the room’s capacity./ (photo by Betsy Kim)

NEW YORK CITY—Community members and local government representatives came in full force to the Board of Standards and Appeals hearing to oppose the proposed 51-story, $700 million condominium development, a joint venture of SJP Properties and Mitsui Fudosan America.

Construction of the 668-foot condo skyscraper is underway at 200 Amsterdam and 69th Street but had been stalled, due to the Committee for Environmentally Sound Development’s challenging the project.

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Betsy Kim

Betsy Kim

Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.

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