Campaign to Landmark Park Lane Hotel Returns

Last year, the city roundly rejected a push to landmark the 44-year-old Helmsley Park Lane Hotel. Now, despite the fact that rederings have just surfaced for a massive condo building set to rise on the Witkoff- "strangest preservation campaign in history" appears to have returned.
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In February, Juan Reyes (a Queens real estate attorney affiliated with the Save Park Lane NY group) filed another petition with the Landmarks Preservation Commission, who rejected it five days later. But now, according to Crain's, media attorney Charles Glasser has filed a Freedom of Information Law request asking for records related to the LPC's decision.
At the time, the campaign was criticized as frivolous, and some suspected that it was simply an attempt to halt development on Central Park South. [Editor's Note: A previous version of this article misquoted Margaret Newman with regards to this allegation.]

Read the full article at curbed.com. Article courtesy of Rowley Amato.

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