But the landmarks committee of the community board did not accept this assurance.
You have to pity any architect who appears before the landmarks committee of the Upper East Side's community board.
Evelyn Collier, the chairwoman of the landmarks committee of Community Board 3, read a letter from the board chairman, Henry L. Butler, saying that the residents of the district supported designation.
Sean Sweeney, who runs the SoHo Alliance and is chairman of the landmarks committee for Community Board 2, said he liked the idea of a bike-share program.
"Developers are seeing this as an opportunity to get development through quickly," said Roger Byrom, co-chairman of the landmarks committee of the community board.
Joyce Matz, co-chairwoman of the landmarks committee of Community Board 5, has long lobbied for a historic district encompassing a dozen town houses in the East 50's.
He said Greyhound representatives had met at Mr. Towns's office to discuss guidelines with Tony Ibelli, who heads the community board's landmarks committee.
Gerard F. Vasisko, chairman of the Brooklyn Heights Association's landmarks committee and a partner at the architecture firm Gruzen Samton, applauded the design.
"It almost defined the West Side Highway," said Edward Kirkland, 82, a longtime neighborhood resident and chairman of the landmarks committee at Community Board 4. "It told you where you were".
Mr. Taylor, an architect who opposes the planned tower, is a co-chairman of the board's parks, waterfront and recreation committee; he is not president of its landmarks committee.
