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New York Public Library, Tremont Branch
Held a hearing on the Landmarks Preservation Commission's proposed designation of the New York Public Library's Tremont Branch in the Bronx as a historic landmark.
Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings and Dispositions · Tuesday, May 21, 2024
The one where a council member moved to table a 73-unit Harlem homeownership conversion over tenant sign-offs
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Chair Kamillah Hanks ran a tidy landmarks-and-dispositions docket: Phipps Houses' 185-unit, 100% affordable Sunnyside Barnett project; HCCI and Restoring Community's gut-rehab of the 104-108 West 139th Street ANCP co-op cluster, where existing residents pay as little as $250 and new buyers get units pegged to 80% AMI; and the landmark designation of the Bronx's Tremont Branch, the last Carnegie library to be designated in the borough. The drama came when District 9's Yusef Salaam floated tabling the Harlem co-op deal , the sponsor had only 81% of tenant layout sign-offs in hand and HPD's loan
From the room
“requirements for the buildings to convert to cooperatives are to one, have 80% of existing residents attend at least eight co-op success trainings”
— Shams Alkofaji
“a new one hundred percent affordable housing development located at 5025 Barnett Avenue in Sunnyside, Queens. This project is known as the Barnett.”
— Kelly Biscuso
“Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony on behalf of 5025 Barnett Housing Development Fund Corporation and its sole member, Phipps Houses”
— Kelly Biscuso
“Bisco, President of Development at Phipps Houses and Matthew Washington, Vice President of Chief and Chief of Staff of Phipps Houses”
— Kamillah Hanks
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The decisions
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104-108 West 139th Street ANCP Cluster
Took up the disposition of city-owned land to an HPD-selected developer for the 104-108 West 139th Street ANCP cluster in Harlem, a five-site affordable-housing project in Council Member Salaam's district. The deal pairs a UDAAP designation with an Article 11 PHFL property-tax exemption, and the buildings convert to co-ops once units are sold to signed purchasers, with the deed transferred and the construction loan paid off through permanent financing at conversion.
Conditions
- 80% of existing residents must attend at least eight co-op success trainings provided during construction
- ANCP term sheet requires a 2% annual maintenance increase (shareholders collectively decide any increase above that)
- City capital loan repayment due after 40 years ONLY if the co-op chooses to exit affordability; if it stays under regulatory agreement there are no loan/debt payments
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Sunnyside Barnett Article XI
Heard the Article 11 PHFL real estate tax exemption sought to enable Sunnyside Barnett, a Queens mixed-use building of roughly 185 affordable units with community space and on-site surface parking.
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Procedure
- Clerk opens the Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting and Dispositions hearing; instructs to silence phones and submit testimony to landusetestimony@council.nyc.gov — Committee Clerk
- Meeting held in hybrid format; remote testifiers must register online at council.nyc.gov/land-use and remain on Zoom until they testify — Kamillah Hanks
- Written testimony must be emailed with LU number and project name in subject; video/audio testimony not accepted — Kamillah Hanks
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The people
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Justin L. Brannan
Practitioners & applicants
Oswald J. Feliz · Margaret Herman · Cheryl Henry · Kelly Biscuso
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