As was anticipated, City Planning certified Extell's Riverside Center mega-project. Certification is not approval -- it is the start of the formal process towards approval, modification or denial, as explained here.
Although there are many grounds to object to the project as currently laid out (just scan through this blog), one issue that has come to prominence recently is parking. As noted earlier, NYPIRG and the Straphanger's Campaign have come out strongly on this point. Streetsblog.org has a good post laying out the parking issue, as well as a brief review of the meeting itself.
UPDATE:
The process rolls along. Here is the notice of the SEIS, with a link to the statement itself.
Riverside Center Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
On May 21, 2010, the New York City Department of City Planning, on behalf of the City Planning Commission as lead agency, issued aNotice of Completion for a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Draft SEIS) for the Riverside Center project.
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