The one where a Landmarks Subcommittee spent its morning approving affordable housing — then designated two Black middle

2017 GRAND CONCOURSE

with 1 related matter · LU 0093-2022

HPD brought forward land-use actions for 2017 Grand Concourse, still in ULURP, seeking Council approval for city acquisition and disposition of the parcel. The site holds a vacant building that was already designated to developer Bronx Pro through the city's third-party transfer program.

509 WEST 48 STREET

with 2 related matters · LU 0105-2022 · LU 0106-2022

HPD presented the Rialto West project at 705 10th Avenue (the DEP site), seeking a UDAAP designation, disposition, zoning special permits, and an Article XI tax exemption for a new eight-story building with roughly 157 permanently affordable units. The Clinton/Hell's Kitchen development, by Douglaston Development and the Entertainment Community Fund, adds ground-floor community facility space and a Parks-operated public comfort station beside a publicly accessible open space.

705 10th Avenue-DEP Site/Rialto West-UDAAP/Article XI

DL-527/LP-2655

LPC presented the proposed Cambria Heights 222nd Street Historic District, one of two row-house districts in eastern Queens designated June 28, 2022. The blocks were drawn from a survey of 1920s-30s Queens row-house developments, many in Tudor Revival style.

DL-527/LP-2656

LPC presented the Cambria Heights 227th Street Historic District, a predominantly African-American and Afro-Caribbean community singled out for its intact 1931 storybook-style row houses with Tudor elements. Originally white and middle-class, the area saw Black families arrive by the 1950s despite overt hostility, joined by Caribbean immigrant families by the 1980s.

Gateway Site 26A and Phase 5

with 1 related matter · LU 0114-2022

The application advances a new-construction affordable senior housing building on Site 26A of the Fresh Creek Urban Renewal Area, certified April 25, 2022, alongside a building-typology change for Phase 5. It is part of the final phase of the Gateway Estates 2 Large-Scale Development on former municipal landfill.