Hudson Yards and Battery Park City: should they be models for development around the White Plains train station?

hydc.org

Hudson Yards is the area of Manhattan bounded by West 42nd and 43rd Streets, 7th and 8th Avenues, West 28th and 30th Streets, and Hudson River Park.

Since 2001, the City of New York, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the State of New York have collaborated on extraordinary planning initiatives to create a development program that will transform the Hudson Yards area into a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly, transit-oriented mixed-use district. The new Hudson Yards district will accommodate a major and vital expansion of the Midtown central business district, as well as job growth and new housing for the City's growing population.

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bpca.ny.gov

http://bpca.ny.gov/about/who-we-are/

"Battery Park City is the premier model of modern city living. An urban oasis, our parks, programs, and waterfront perspective offer residents and visitors an unrivaled experience of New York."

SHARI HYMAN President & COO

Rector Park

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Why reinvent the wheel or simply issue building permits for ever more mundane, unrelated, unimaginative buildings?