The Armory, seen from Park Avenue.
Tempers are flaring on the Upper East Side over plans to convert the Seventh Regiment Armory, which occupies the block between Lexington and Park avenues between 66th and 67th streets, into a cultural-arts center. Area residents turned up en masse to request Community Board 8’s assistance in quashing the plan proposed by the Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy to renovate the building and turn it into—depending on who you ask—a 1,500- to 2,500-seat venue.
“We feel there is going to be a very, very radical re-creation and re-assembly of the building,” said Ret. Col. David Dalva, the president of the veterans group. “They are not doing a restoration.” read more »
Area resident Bruce Lee was more succinct: "Boy are we pissed," he told The Real Estate.
Maureen Connelly
