Work Halts at NYC Condo Tower After Council Rules It's Too Tall
- Developer Gamma seeking an exemption to East 50s rezoning
- Changes cut height of planned 67-story tower by about half
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Workers building a Manhattan condo tower were in the middle of pouring concrete Thursday afternoon when the city’s building department came to shut everything down.
Fifteen minutes earlier, the New York City Council voted to rezone the neighborhood along the East River where the Sutton 58 development is located, capping the height of all new buildings in the area. Gamma Real Estate’s project, slated to rise 799 feet (244 meters), was suddenly illegal.