His own house on Woodlawn, built in 1999, has won national awards and is an obvious asset to the neighborhood. The Riggi house will be large, but it will also be a magnificent addition to a great street. It is consistent with other mansions on North Broadway in height, mass, materials, and exterior details. The drawings show the garage doors concealed in an interior court. The other sides of the building present dignified facades to both streets on the corner lot.
Excellence ought to be the prime consideration for new houses on North Broadway.
Neighbors denounced it and the planning board voted it down. We're sure that if the building itself was a better one, activities like this could happily coexist with the homes there. Until very recently Civitas had no firm opinion one way or the other about the Hudson River - PCB issue, which seemed terribly complicated. Mr. GE Spokesman presented the company's case. The US Environmental Protection Agency differs fundamentally with GE on the question of whether the river is, in fact, cleaning itself up.