The one where Amtrak, FEMA flood maps, and a six-lane highway all crash a 60-unit Hudson-edge rezoning hearing

Astoria

with 1 related matter · LU 0139-2024

Approved with modifications as part of the day's first vote, paired with companion items LU 138 and 139.

Bay Ridge

Approved with modifications in the third vote, advancing the 250 6th Street rezoning proposal (LU 140).

230355 ZRK (250 86th Street Rezoning submitted by Dr. Helen Kim, pursuant to Section 201 of the New York City Charter, for an amendment of the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York, modifying APPENDIX F for the purpose of establishing a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing area, Borough of Brooklyn, Community District 10, Council District 47.

21st Street Rezoning

Astoria

Approved in the second vote of the session, taken together with LU 145 and 146.

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Approved in the day's fourth and final vote, granting the Marcus Garvey Article 11 tax exemption (LU 147).

135th Street Rezoning

A West Harlem residential rezoning (R7-2 with a C2-4 overlay) atop an Amtrak right-of-way near Riverside Drive and 12th Avenue, scaled down from the original 2016 14-story R8 plan to 7 stories, 71.5 feet, and 4.6 FAR with a bulk special permit and MIH options 1 and 2; CB9, Amtrak, and residents pushed back over environmental contamination, flooding in flood zones X and AE, and buildability. The project's roots trace to 2016 when the applicant first met with City Planning.

135th Street Rezoning

343 WEST 47 STREET

A special permit to proceed with partial demolition of a vacant four-unit residential building at 343 West 47th Street in the Special Clinton District, after work was stopped for lacking the required demolition approvals; a DOB audit of the July 2019 and October 2020 permits found more than 20% of residential floor area was being removed, which triggered the special-permit requirement (LU 153).

Maspeth/Ridgewood

Heard as an application to operate a sidewalk cafe with roughly 13 tables and 52 seats.

2383 MCDONALD AVENUE

with 1 related matter · LU 0157-2024

A Gravesend, Brooklyn rezoning from C8 to C4-4L to enable a roughly 80-unit residential mixed-use building beside Gravesend's oldest-in-NYC cemetery; the C4-4L district was created by Brooklyn's City Planning office specifically for sites up against elevated trains.