535 West End Avenue -- plans filed

Kewl. Any other condo decs that include fps?

It made my day. Usually I don't bother looking at the map filings, but 22 pages seemed a lot for so few units, and lo and behold.

A few weeks ago some condo filed amended plans when one owner sold space to a neighbor, but that was the only set of actual plans I've seen filed.

I guess we'll have to start looking instead of just assuming they're only the cover pages.

Remembered another one, 838 Fifth, where the plans are in the declaration, starting at page 208: http://a836-acris.nyc.gov/Scripts/DocSearch.dll/Detail?Doc_ID=FT_1890007355089

DOB instituted a new rule a few months ago. All plans for construction projects must be scanned and posted on the city's website for 45 days. Don't think this a gift for the citizens of NYC, though. The new rules provide that after the posting period is over, it is almost impossible to complain about or oppose the developer's project. This means you and I need ESP to know when a developer is going to post their project on the DOB website. Also, any complaints made during the posting period go to the Board of Standards & Appeals, which has never seen a developer it didn't like.

Der Fuhrer at City Hall rammed this one through in one of the more blatant Nazi pogroms of the second administration (2nd REich?). There is supposed to be a public hearing at DOB about any proposed new rule, with a stenographic record made. Then the agency is supposed to consider the public's opinions before deciding whether to implement a proposed rule. In this instance, the public hearing was scheduled for the afternoon of Friday, March 6, 2009. At 9 AM on March 6th, BEFORE the hearing was held,Der Fuhrer held a press conference and announced the rule was going into effect on Monday, March 9th, i.e., the following business day. So much for public opinion.

I was at the hearing, along with several hundred others. There was no microphone and few seats. Every single person at the hearing spoke against the proposed rule for one reason or another. Because of the opposition, DOB postponed putting the rule into effect for a few months. In the interval, they had a DOB dog-and-pony show trotting around from one community board meeting to another. The stated purpose was to "explain the new rule," not to find out whether the community thought it should go into effect.

Thanks, generalogoun. I'd read about that in CityLand or somewhere and then forgot about it since it wasn't effective yet.

I just now went digging through DoB's site and think I found it, but what a PITA. One lousy zoning doc that's on ACRIS anyway.

The DOB rule generalogoun is referring to is a separate thing. That get's posted on DOB's BIS system, and it doesn't show floorplans. What you found are the plans that are recorded with the tax map unit. As of about 6 months ago, it's Dept. of Finance policy to scan them to ACRIS. Very nifty for research but a pain in the ass to comply with, frankly.

How does one search the city website for such great floor plans like those?