Good morning. Today is Tuesday. Tonight’s All-Star game means we’re halfway through the baseball season, and the Yankees and Mets are in first place. We’ll see what one of our sports editors has to say about an October Subway Series. But first we’ll take a look at a popular Upper West Side church asking for permission to tear down its structure. its nearly 140-year-old structure to make an apartment building.
Today it will hold a meeting about doing the opposite – allowing the demolition of a landmark building, which the owner claims, imposes a hardship. The commission has done that just 13 times in the 57 years since it was founded.
The problem is class West Park Presbyterian Church, has dominated a corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 86th Street since the 1880s. The church wanted to go ahead with a deal worth more than $30 million that would replace the structure with an apartment building. Inside the new structure will be a 10,000 square foot community center that the church can use or rent out, just as it now leases its building to an arts group, West Park Center.
The church’s proposal has been at odds with conservationists and lawmakers, including City Council member Gale Brewer, whose county includes the site.
Building owners often grumble about landmark condition, which forces them to clean up even routine repair jobs with the landmark committee. But West Park needs more than the usual repairs. Roger Leaf, Chairman of the West Park Administrative Committee, estimates that fixing all of the building’s problems will cost $50 million, money he says the church doesn’t have.
As in many guilds, the number of people on the benches gradually decreased: Leaf said West Park had 12 members. The church has not had a full-time minister for several years. It asked New York City’s Presbytery, which oversees 89 churches and 14 communities of worship in five boroughs, to form an administrative committee in 2010.
It was 10 years after the West Park building was designated a landmark in the face of church objections. By then, concerns about the building were nothing new. It was surrounded by scaffolding across the sidewalk for many years, and still is now.
The scaffolding makes the building difficult to judge from a distance, but the site committee says it is “one of the finest examples of a Romanesque Renaissance religious structure in New York City. ” The committee praised the “particularly bold color of the red sandstone” and its “unique and monumental presence,” making it “one of the Upper West Side’s most important buildings.” .
But the church’s leadership voted in 2020 to sell the building.
Leaf said the building “no longer serves the needs of the church” and is “in our view beyond repair.” Their deal with Alchemy Partners, which converts the top 30 floors of the Woolworth Building in Lower Manhattan into condominiums, cost $33 million.
Michael Hiller, a lawyer representing the center, said: “The problem we have here is the lack of will on the part of the owner and the developer because they have invested more in destroying the building. this house so that it can be replaced with luxury apartments. which is going against the proposal of the church. “This development is a hit with the money.”
Hiller said the center offered $3.5 million for the building and would let the shares share in the profits if it sold the rights to the air or the building itself. He said the church had not responded. The church, through a spokeswoman, said the center had not shown that it had the money to buy or make repairs that would be needed.
Leaf said the new building will reorient the church. “With the right resources, this church can recover on its own, if you will,” he said, adding that if the proposal to demolish the church stalls, “it will almost certainly fall apart.” .”
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Well, what about the Metro Series?
The All-Star – midway through the baseball season – seems to be the right time for you to wonder about a Subway Series. Is that what we should expect for October? I ask Benjamin Hoffmana senior sports editor who manages the section’s baseball coverage, to weigh prospects.
It started feels like destiny. Yankees are a overwhelming powerexcelled in all aspects of the game, while Mets keep winning no matter how much damage piled up. The idea of the season ending in a Metro Series began to take shape, with seemingly few obstacles for both teams.
But as May turns to June, and June to July, the magic of Mets season begins to wear off. Unnamed Batters Pete Alonso began to falter, close wins turned into narrow losses, and the Atlanta Braves – who returned to beat the Mets for the National League East last season, eventually winning the World Series – began filming. shot-for-shot remake.
Even the Yankees, who had the best record in baseball for most of the season, starting to show some wear and tear in recent weeks.
But with the All-Star taking a break here, it’s still easy to look at both clubs and see the possibility of this year’s World Series being solely New York City’s affair.
The Yankees seem unstoppable. With two Big win against Boston Red Sox At the end of the first half, they are leading 64-28 and 199 times ahead of the opponent. Their pitch has concerns about durabilitybut there is no doubt that the team is talented enough to win them all.
The Mets have so far held Atlanta and went on a break at 58-35, good enough for the second-best record in the NL behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Recently they have Max Scherzer back on the wounded list, and his teammates, Jacob deGrom, is getting close to the start of his first major tournament in over a year. The Mets Factor Is Tied To Every Trade Rumor, Thanks To Owner Steven Cohen’s ready to spendand team attack problems can go away overnight.
However, expectations should be reduced. While the Subway Series has been a fact of life for Major League Baseball – the Yankees have faced the New York Giants or the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series 13 times since 1921 to 1956 – since then has been a rarity. The only publication since the Giants and Dodgers’ arrival in California prior to the 1958 season was in 2000, a World Series so much remembered for Roger Clemens’ decision. throw a broken stick at Mike Piazza of the Mets (Clemens claimed he thought it was the ball) because it was for the actual competition (The Yankees won the series in five games).
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Dear Diary:
I visited my brother in New York in the winter of 2004. He took me to dinner at Honmura An in SoHo.
The two were soon seated next to us.
“Yoko Ono,” Matt opened his mouth. “Sean Lennon.”
We thought New York was great, without interrupting or acknowledging them while we all enjoyed a delicious Japanese noodle dinner.
A few nights later, we were at the Park Avenue Arms Workshop for a winter antique show. And there she is again: Yoko Ono.
