New York City Councilmember Ben Kallos was stumping against super-tall towers at last weekʼs B’nai B’rith luncheon at the Cornell Club. Kallos is among the leaders of a residential re-zoning plan for the Manhattan area between 52nd Street and 59th Street, east of 1st Avenue, to limit the height of so-called supertowers and prevent over-development in the neighborhood. “We are drawing a line on the march of superscrapers at billionaireʼs row to protect our cityʼs residential neighborhoods,ˮ said Kallos when the plan was announced earlier this year. “The East River Fifties Alliance has proposed a rare community application to rezone a neighborhood, making it impossible to build superscrapers as of right. They have risen to the challenge of winning support from elected officials, the community board, buildings and residents to bring an application to rezone and save the neighborhood.ˮ Called the East River Fifties Alliance, the group has raised money themselves to pay for lawyers and city planners for a rezoning bidand won the support of State Senator Liz Krueger, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, as well as city council member Dan Garodnick.