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“I am real estate,” Eric Adams said on the campaign trail<\/a>. But Douglas Durst actually IS real estate in New York City. The third-generation real estate heir (you might remember<\/a> his late-brother Robert, a convicted murderer<\/a> whom Douglas testified against at trial) has run his family’s eponymous company since 1992, overseeing the development of buildings like the skyline-altering One Bryant Park and the New School University Center on 14th Street. The real estate lobby must have been thrilled when Eric Adams became mayor<\/a>, with Adams championing citywide rezonings<\/a> and huge subsidies for developers to build market-rate and affordable housing<\/a>. Adams was also hellbent on getting workers back to the office<\/a>, which would help landlords like Durst<\/a>, who suddenly had a bunch of empty commercial buildings during the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Heating up after Adams took office, Durst set his sights on changing Local Law 97<\/a>, the City’s landmark climate law, which was passed under the de Blasio administration and aims to drastically reduce the city’s burning of fossil fuels. Because commercial buildings are some of the city’s biggest polluters<\/a>, environmentalists were looking for a strict implementation of the law to meaningfully reduce carbon emissions. Durst’s signature building, One Bryant Park, was billed<\/a> as one of the most environmentally forward buildings when it was built in 2010, but it has one major issue: even with its ecologically-minded design, it still heats itself using natural gas, a fossil fuel that contributes to the global climate crisis. Under Local Law 97, Durst’s Organization would be required to commit to costly retrofits\u2014or pay millions in fines. (SL Green finds itself in a similar dilemma with One Vanderbilt, which opened in 2020.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n