Plan for Fulton Fish Market Condo Tower Gets Filleted

Dec. 17, 2015 — Score one for the little guy – and maybe for little buildings.

After a drumbeat of recent news about condo towers slated for hallowed New York City ground – on the campus of Union Theological Seminary in Morningside Heights, at Frederick Douglass Circle in Harlem, and on the site of the Brooklyn Heights public library branch – we now get the shocking news that a controversial condo tower will not be built at the former site of the Fulton Fish Market in lower Manhattan.
 
“There will be no residential tower on that site,” Christopher Curry, executive vice president of development for the Howard Hughes Corp., told a Community Board 1 meeting on Tuesday night, as reported by DNAinfo.
 
The scuttling of the proposed 494-foot condo tower – scaled back from its original 600 feet – marks a significant victory for Seaport Working Group and assorted residents, preservationists and activists who howled at the prospect of a high-rise tower disrupting the low-rise waterfront neighborhood and blocking views of the nearby Brooklyn Bridge.
 
Score one for the little guy. For now, at least.