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Riley's zoning subcommittee fast-tracked two rezonings - 400+ apartments in Sheepshead Bay and a 94-unit College Point building with 28 affordable - then spent its energy on the Van Dam demapping in Long Island City. Restaurant owner Stephen Barry, whose family has run a pizzeria nearby since 1988, wants the city to demap and sell a green-space sliver by the Queens-Midtown ramp so he can add outdoor dining, calling it an illegal-dumping magnet. Julie Won and Queens CB2 chair Anatole Ashraf pushed back hard: the board voted 26-6 to disapprove, a Parks care-captain said the 'weeds' are planted v
“once we have written a formal letter from the city council, they have been able to clean it up. So now we will start the cleanup process.”
— Julie Won
“I support it with the modification just because I want to strike that balance where they build trust between community and government”
— Mercedes Narcisse
“during three public hearings on this project, both the request to acquire the property and the outdoor dining plan, there were no speakers offering a testimony in opposition”
— Raymond Levin
“The second vote is to approve of modifications LUs 210 and 211 relating to the four thirty eight Concord Avenue proposal”
— Kevin C. Riley
with 1 related matter · LU 0209-2025
Took up a rezoning tied to 2185 Cole Street in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. No decision or further detail on the application was captured in the item data.
with 1 related matter · LU 0210-2025
with 1 related matter · LU 0230-2025
A hearing was held on an application to build a mixed-use residential building in Whitestone, Queens, with roughly 94 apartments planned in the Whitestone/College Point area.
The body heard a city-map change to demap and convey a city-owned parcel next to a highway on-ramp to a private applicant, who intends to build an outdoor dining space on the site.
Public testimony: 3 in favor · 8 opposed
Frank Sajak · Andrew Esposito · Raymond Levin · Stephen Barry · Anatole Ashraf · Eric Narburg · Rosamond Gianutsos · Fanny Chang · Committee Clerk (unnamed)
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: 309 oath/ecb hearings across the 3 sites discussed.
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