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Consents & Variances

Newsstand application # 1256607, N/W/C of 6th Avenue & West 49th Street and # 1256609, N/W/C of 6th Avenue and West 50th Street

WHEREAS, Community Board Five takes its role in the review of applications for Newsstand seriously; and

WHEREAS, A member of the Consents & Variances Committee visited the requested location, and based on observation of pedestrian traffic pattern, the placement of a newsstand at the above locations will further impede pedestrian flow; and

WHEREAS, The applicant for the above referenced request was invited, yet failed to attend Community Board Five’s Consents & Variances Committee meeting on Thursday, June 14, 2007, at 5:00p.m. to answer any questions the committee may have; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That Community Board Five recommends denial of the application for a newsstand at the N/W/C of 6th Avenue & West 49th Street and N/W/C of 6th Avenue and West 50th Street.

The above resolution passed with a vote of 35 in favor, 0 opposed, 1 abstention.  

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