Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll look at a proposed 5G tower that has drawn fire from some Upper East Siders.
ImageHow crowded is it where Madison Avenue meets East 86th Street?
“This intersection hosts six bus stops,” said Mary Ellen Bianco, who has lived in a building on one of its corners for 40 years. “We’ve got a falafel guy and a coffee guy. We’ve got street furniture. The free newsletter distributors have a big installation, and there’s a Chase bank with an A.T.M.”
That is more than enough, she said. A proposed 5G tower for the LinkNYC program would add to the clutter — and bring an industrial look to a neighborhood of prewar buildings. “You could do no worse than to go to the Jetsons for inspiration, and it looks like that is what they did,” Bianco said, calling the proposed tower “ugly.”
Neighborhood groups on the Upper East Side are waging an 11th-hour campaign against the tower. One group,fef777 casino Friends of the Upper East Side, is circulating a petition that says that the tower will “clash with the special character” of Madison Avenue and that it will be “redundant” because there is a Wi-Fi kiosk across the from the site.
The opponents’ efforts took on new urgency after the New York State Historic Preservation Office said last month that the tower posed “no adverse effect” on the neighborhood. But the preservation office strongly recommended “mitigating the height, bulk and appearance of the tower through design changes,” a spokesman said. The office suggested “a ‘wrap’ in a darker color” instead of silver at the top.
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