A plan to replace St. Vincent’s Hospital with a residential complex
will likely be approved when it comes back to the Landmarks
Preservation Commission for a vote next month, commission members said
yesterday. Commission Chairman Robert Tierney said the current St.
Vincent’s proposal, which lowered the height of the tallest residential
building, is essentially appropriate. But Andrew Berman, director of
the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, said
preservationists are still worried that the Rudin Organization’s
development will not match the character of Greenwich Village. [more]