{"id":370030,"date":"2026-10-10T22:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370030\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T22:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T22:48:35","slug":"w57th-street-rezoning-could-open-door-to-another-tower-and-mcb4-nearly-missed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370030\/","title":{"rendered":"W57th Street Rezoning Could Open Door to Another Tower \u2014 and MCB4 Nearly Missed It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For months, members of Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4) had been poring over plans to turn an old Hell\u2019s Kitchen television studio into hundreds of apartments, negotiating everything from affordable housing to the building\u2019s design. But amid the maps and renderings for 515 W57th Street, a thin black dotted line had escaped their attention.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/515-W57th-St_9013.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161558\"\/>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<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI notice everything. I have not noticed this,\u201d said Housing, Health and Human Services Committee co-chair Joe Restuccia when the boundary finally caught his attention at a September board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/kayla-dembrak-2\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Kayla Dembrak\" src=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cropped-Kayla-Profile-Picture-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kayla Dembrak is a trainee reporter at W42ST, covering Hell&#8217;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&#8217;s out on the street chasing a story.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/kayla-dembrak-2\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Kayla Dembrak\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For months, members of Manhattan Community Board 4 (MCB4) had been poring over plans to turn an old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2907,75,84,83,1887,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-370030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-housing","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mcb4","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}