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    Dear PlanNYC Users:

    Thank you for visiting PlanNYC.

    As of July 7, 2010, we have suspended daily news updating on this website, and will not be adding new developments or policy and legislative debates.

    PlanNYC, a student-run website based at NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, has proudly served New Yorkers for five years. During that time, the growth of online information on land use and development issues, along with advances in technology such as RSS feeds and news alerts, have created many opportunities for New Yorkers to stay informed about housing and land use debates in the City. As a result, the daily news updating on this site has become less unique and less critical to our users.

    We are pleased to keep the existing PlanNYC content online as a resource; all content on the site is current of July 6, 2010, but will not be updated after that date.

    We hope you continue to use the data and research available at the Furman Center (which you can find at www.furmancenter.org), and we welcome your ideas and suggestions for how we can continue to provide objective information and analysis about land use and housing policy debates in New York City.

    For additional information or questions, please email furmancenter@nyu.edu.

    NYC 2012 Olympic Bid

    Led by Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, and the nonprofit group NYC2012, the city launched a $50 million dollar bid to host the Olympics. NYC's bid was denied on July 6th, 2005. The plan had significant citywide planning implications, from new stadiums to transportation demands to environmental cleanup.

    Proponents of New York City hosting the 2012 Olympics cited economic benefits from tourism, the worldwide recognition the city will receive, and the hard development deadline (Summer 2012) that will foster more efficient public-private development partnerships. Opponents of the bid argued that it will cost city residents too much, hastily designed megaprojects won't fit into their neighborhoods and will drive others out, the Games will create transportation bottlenecks, and policy makers will be distracted from more critical problems like schools, crime, and jobs. New York lost its bid to host the 2012 Olympics.