VF editor angling to convert Con Ed building

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is lobbying city officials and developer Douglas Durst to convert the former IRT Powerhouse building on the Far West Side to a new Manhattan home for the George Eastman House, the Rochester-based photography museum, the Observer reported. The Beaux-Arts property, on 59th Street and 11th Avenue, is owned by Con Edison, which uses it as a steam-generating plant and isn’t exactly amenable to the plan. Carter isn’t the first to eye the building: several preservation groups have tried to get it landmarked and converted in the past. But despite the media mogul’s influence, the company still says it has no plans to leave. [NYO] and [NYO]