Here's a piece of advice. If you're going to spend a bunch of money on renovating and building a fancy hotel in New York, we recommend you don't change some of your architectural plans at the last minute without the city's consent, even if you are Robert De Niro. The actor is trying to convince the Landmarks Preservation Commission to allow him to build a swanky new penthouse at the top of his Greenwich Hotel. They'd already given him the okay a few years back, but then he and his developers and architects decided to switch the look of the thing around a bit, maybe not so in concert with the Commission's ideas of what the neighborhood should look like. So now the penthouse could be torn down and ordered to be rebuilt, which is clearly something De Niro is not looking to have done and he's approaching the Commission to take it easy and not do anything rash. Personally, we recommend that the actor hire a write to put together an Oscar-caliber monologue that he can deliver, maybe with a really good arc that involves yelling at one point and crying at another. That stuff always just kills.