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November 20, 2024 By Layla Law-Gisiko, President. The City Club of New York “Buy land; they're not making it anymore” Mark Twain. The...

November 19, 2024 By John Massengale, AIA CNU NY DAILY NEWS " The future of New York’s neighborhoods is being decided behind closed...

November 18, 2024 By John Low-Beer, J.D., PhD. City Club Law Committee Chair The New York City Planning Department presents the City of...

November 12, 2024 Honorable Kathy Hochul Governor NYS State Capitol Building Albany, NY 12224 Dear Governor Hochul, We write today as a...

THE NEW YORK TIMES September 27, 2024 BY ANA LEY & WINNIE HU "Supporters of the tolling program want Gov. Kathy Hochul to bring it back...

CRAIN'S NEW YORK BY KATE BOICOURT New York City is at a crossroads; the decisions we make now will determine the city’s livability in a...

Lowland Protection Paired With Upland Upzoning A proposal by the City Club of New York June 2024 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Six feet of sea level...

Our full brief (2016) is available as a .pdf at the end of the post. THE CITY CLUB OF NEW YORK'S MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE URBAN...

The City Club has helped shape the future of Manhattan's West side waterfront for the past half century. We successfully opposed the...

NY POST July 25, 2024 BY: CARL CAMPANILE, CRAIG MC CARTHY, MATT TROUTMAN "Powerful congestion pricing supporters plan to sue Gov. Kathy Hochul over her 11th-hour pause of the first-in-the-nation tolls, according to two lawsuit drafts obtained by The Post Wednesday. The two lawsuits — which sources said will be filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court — will mark the first legal challenges to Hochul’s decision that scrapped the plans just days before $15 tolls were to be impo