[CPEO-BIF] Building Up Yonkers, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Building Up, Downtown

By CHARLES V. BAGLI
New York Times
July 8, 2007

ERIK A. KAISER plunges through the vine-tangled woods that surround the 
long abandoned Glenwood power plant on the Hudson River in Yonkers as 
rapidly as he talks.

He has big plans to convert the plant, which closed in 1964, into a 
glamorous contemporary art museum topped by luxury lofts, condominiums 
and apartments, combining what he calls "extreme architecture and 
sustainability," the likes of which have never been seen in this 
working-class city.

The first floor, like much of Yonkers's once industrial waterfront, 
offers IMAX-like views of the Hudson River and the Palisades in New 
Jersey. Visible to the south on a clear morning were the George 
Washington Bridge, Manhattan and the Goldman Sachs tower, New Jersey's 
tallest building.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/08Rcover.html?ex=1184558400&en=46c6646d876f138f&ei=5070&emc=eta1

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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