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Two visions of NYC development collided in one zoning subcommittee. First, the city's own SPARC Kips Bay and Taconic life-science campuses moved smoothly with $100M EDC commitments, union electricians, and promises of ~1,000 jobs. Then the room turned into a battlefield over Arrow Linen, a Windsor Terrace laundry site: Community Board 7 had voted 30-6 against, opponents demanded the towers be cut to seven stories with 40% affordability, longtime residents pleaded against 'two luxury hot towers,' while renters and pro-housing groups argued Windsor Terrace has built no new affordable units since
“there is an R seven D district, much like we are asking, immediately across Concord Avenue. This was zoned, uh approved by the council in twenty twenty one”
— Richard Lobel
“we're going to be doing multiple developments in your district with your community board. We're going to be back here before this committee multiple times.”
— Richard Bass
“We engaged Catholic charities to make a market rate offer based on a seven to nine story zoning to build 100% affordable housing. ARO rejected it”
— Jacob Walsh
“other applicants had actively engaged the community and provided for their own needs instead of just their own self-interests, like Arrow Linen”
— Alex
Took up a commercial-overlay mapping for the Gleason Funeral Home in Whitestone, Queens, spanning three lots on 150th Street and 11th Avenue in Council Member Paladino's district. The overlay would finally bring into conformance a funeral home that has operated on the site since 1913.
with 1 related matter · LU 0209-2025
A Sheepshead Bay rezoning would enable a residential mixed-use building with approximately 435 apartments.
with 1 related matter · LU 0211-2025
A rezoning in the Mount Haven section of the Bronx would clear the way for a mixed-use building with manufacturing, commercial space and roughly 87 apartments. It shifts four parcels plus portions of two others from an M1-2 district to an M1-4/R7D district.
with 1 related matter · LU 0213-2025
A rezoning would replace the Arrow Linen Company's Windsor Terrace site with roughly 244 apartments, changing the existing R5B district to R7-1 alongside a zoning text amendment. The family-owned business has owned and operated the site for over 40 years, running a non-conforming commercial laundry there for nearly a century.
with 2 related matters · LU 0215-2025 · LU 0216-2025
Paired with the SPARC campus application as items 215 and 216, this rezoning would facilitate a new commercial life-science building, also in Kips Bay.
with 6 related matters · LU 0218-2025 · LU 0219-2025 · LU 0220-2025 · LU 0221-2025 · LU 0223-2025 · LU 0224-2025
EDC pitched redeveloping about 4.75 acres of city-owned land in Kips Bay, replacing Hunter College's aging Brookdale campus with roughly 2 million square feet of academic, healthcare and life-science space. Branded SPARC Kips Bay (the Science Park and Research Campus), it was presented as a first-of-its-kind education, workforce and industry hub built through a New York State and New York City partnership, advanced via a city map application within the broader ULURP package.
Keith Powers: Asks the applicant to explain the difference between the as-of-right use for laboratory space and what is being requested via the special permit.
Keith Powers: Asks whether granting the special permit would preclude housing on the site, and whether additive housing opportunities in the area have been explored.
+13 more procedural steps
Public testimony: 19 in favor · 8 opposed
Richard Bass · Richard Lobel · Shahana K. Hanif · public commenter (S4, neighborhood landlord) · Scott Newman · Hafina Allen · Eric McClure · Dr. Henry Love · Ralph Gaddo · Julia Harris · +15 more
Every parcel, owner, and applicant in this meeting, cross-referenced against Zonable’s NYC ownership, enforcement & legislative graph — the record behind the record.
Owner portfolios, open OATH/ECB violations, 311 & DOB permits across every parcel discussed, developer track records, and an “ask this meeting” chat. For this meeting: 585 oath/ecb hearings across the 4 sites discussed.
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