1. Zoning for Lifestyle
Implementation Tools in New York City
Professor Raquel Ramati
NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate
New York City
September 26, 2013

2. The High Line
Redevelopment initiated by Friends of the Highline, a
local community activist group

3. The Fund for Park Avenue
A private fund sponsored by area developers

4. Central Park
Central Park Conservancy

5. Bryant Park
Redevelopment initiated by the Bryant Park Restoration
Fund, paid for by local developers and businesses

6. Privately-Owned Public Spaces
The Apple Store Plaza

7. Through-block Arcade
Sony Building

8. Covered Pedestrian Space
Former IBM Atrium

9. Covered Pedestrian Space
Trump Tower

10. Street Planting
Mandatory every 25 feet

11. Fifth Avenue Special District

12. Retail Pedestrian Environment

13. Mandatory retail on 50% of lot frontage

14. Sidewalk Cafes
Lower Manhattan, Madison Avenue

15. Subway Easements
Lexington Avenue at 59th
Street

16. Visual Corridors
The Edge in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

17. Visual Corridor
59th
Street towards the Hudson River

18. Respecting Context
The Copper Building, Stephen B Jacobs
Avenue B at 13th Street

19. Context: LVMH Headquarters
Christian de Portzamparc

20. Mixed Use Buildings
Bloomberg Tower
Cesar Pelli

21. Time Warner Center
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

23. One57
Christian de Portzamparc

24. Moderate Income Housing
Williamsburg

25. Landmark Buildings
Grand Central Station, 1871

26. The Plaza Hotel, 1907, converted in 2008
Henry Janeway Hardenbergh

27. Hearst Tower
Built in 2006 over 1928 original
Lord Norman Foster

28. Preserving the Theatre District
Amsterdam Theatre, 1903

29. Upper East Side Brownstones
Historic Districts limit height and floor area

30. Thank you!