For months, members of Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4) had been poring over plans to turn an old Hell’s Kitchen television studio into hundreds of apartments, negotiating everything from affordable housing to the building’s design. But amid the maps and renderings for 515 W57th Street, a thin black dotted line had escaped their attention.
The proposed rezoning to turn a three-story television studio into a residential development also includes a large office building to the west. Photo: Kayla Dembrak
“I notice everything. I have not noticed this,” said Housing, Health and Human Services Committee co-chair Joe Restuccia when the boundary finally caught his attention at a September board meeting.
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Kayla Dembrak is a trainee reporter at W42ST, covering Hell’s Kitchen community board meetings, local events and neighborhood life. A Penn State graduate, she joined the team after attending public meetings as a Centre County Documenter in Pennsylvania, and is happiest when she’s out on the street chasing a story.