{"id":2110,"date":"2021-11-10T17:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2021-11-11T23:27:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T23:27:28","slug":"statement-from-speaker-johnson-manhattan-borough-president-brewer-and-council-members-moya-salamanca-and-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2021\/11\/10\/2110\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Speaker Johnson, Manhattan Borough President Brewer, Council Members Moya, Salamanca, and Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Re: New York Blood&nbsp;Center Rezoning<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>New\u00a0York, NY\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;After years of discussion and weeks of challenging negotiations, we now have a project that we&#8217;re enthusiastically supporting and which will build a new world class research space for the New York Blood Center, helping to cement New York City as a hub of biomedical research.\u00a0 The project that the Council\u2019s Zoning subcommittee and the Land Use committee will vote on this afternoon\u00a0has been reduced in height by over 100 feet, will include additional funding for St. Catherine&#8217;s Park and the Julia Richman Educational Complex, and measures to ensure that the only building of this size that can be built here will be for life sciences research.\u00a0\u00a0We all want to sincerely thank the Blood Center, the de Blasio administration and the many members of the community that we have heard from in this process.\u00a0 Finally we would like to thank and acknowledge our colleagues &#8211; Council Member Ben Kallos, State Senator Liz Krueger, Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright and Congress Member Carolyn Maloney &#8211; for their tireless advocacy on behalf of this community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>###&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Re: New York Blood&nbsp;Center Rezoning<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>New\u00a0York, NY\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;After years of discussion and weeks of challenging negotiations, we now have a project that we&#8217;re enthusiastically supporting and which will build a new world class research space for the New York Blood Center, helping to cement New York City as a hub of biomedical research.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2021\/11\/10\/2110\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}