Fashion Week to leave Lincoln Center ordered by Supreme Court Justice Margaret
IMG Fashion Week shall vacate the premises and remove all tents and other Fashion Week equipment from the park,” according to the settlement, ordered by Supreme Court Justice Margaret Chan on Tuesday.It also stops Fashion Week organizers from renewing a contract with Lincoln Center, which would have allowed the show to be held at the popular venue until 2020.
[Lincoln Center] shall not renew the IMG Fashion sublicense agreement… [and] shall make best efforts to minimize damage to perennial shrubs and paintings, it states.
Fashion Week — which generates an estimated $865 million for the city annually — is now eying event spaces in downtown Manhattan, an insider told the Post.
The settlement comes after NYC Parks Advocates and other green space advocates sued the city Parks Department in 2013, for misusing Damrosch Park.
Fashion week workers allegedly killed dozens of trees while staging the show, according to NYC Parks Advocates.
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The tents of Fashion Week will have to be pitched somewhere other than Lincoln Center.
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Lincoln Center must also install planters and trees and is forbidden from allowing events similar in size to Fashion Week, according to the settlement. It also requires the city to hang a sign indicating the space is a public park.
Damrosch Park belongs to the City of New York not Lincoln Center,said Geoffrey Croft of NYC Park Advocates.
Some neighbors also cheered the terms of the settlement.
Almost 5 years ago I woke up to the sound of power saws and watched helplessly as our beautiful neighborhood Park was destroyed by the monstrous Fashion Week, said Cleo Dana, Chair of Friends of Damrosch Park, a plaintiff in the suit.
We are thrilled at the current settlement and that the Park will be rebuilt,” Dana said, according to the parks
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