01LU 0287-2025C 240184 ZMKZoning MapLaid over
Grace Houses
with 1 related matter · LU 0288-2025
Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises · Thursday, June 5, 2025
The one where a Bed-Stuy parking lot at half-capacity becomes 292 senior apartments — and Riley quietly pushes the devel
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Chair Kevin Riley ran a four-hearing zoning-subcommittee sitting with almost no public turnout. The headliner: Eric Palatnik's pitch to put a 14-story, 292-unit fully-affordable senior building on a Marcus Garvey Boulevard parking lot in Bed-Stuy that he conceded sits at 50% capacity , an R6A rezoning he stressed doesn't even use the extra floor area. Riley pressed him to squeeze in more one-bedrooms beyond the 222 studios / 69 one-beds, and probed how vouchers and the 60% AMI funding actually reach tenants. Also heard: the 145 Harlem project, a 28-unit North 7th Street Williamsburg rezoning w
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“There will be a new plaza area built between in the area that's the parking lot between the new building and the existing buildings.”
— Eric Palatnik
“unanimous vote of Community Board 1 in Brooklyn as well as the unconditional approval of the Brooklyn Borough President”
— Richard Lobell
“we were also promise them uh to help with moving expenses and if they wanna come back in the future after project will be finished they will get uh uh apartment with discount”
— Victor Ephramenkov
“larger complex known as Willoughby Court Apartments, which Mr. Bramwell and his organization took control of about a decade ago”
— Eric Palatnik
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The decisions
902LU 0296-2025C 250117 ZSMSpecial PermitLaid over
One45 for Harlem
03LU 0298-2025C 230064 ZMKZoning MapLaid over
North 7th Street Rezoning
with 1 related matter · LU 0299-2025
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109 Marcus Garvey Boulevard LSGD
with 2 related matters · LU 0301-2025 · LU 0302-2025
05LU 0317-2025G 250076 XAQArt. XI Tax ExemptionLaid over
Ocean Crest Article XI
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Bedford Stuyvesant
Chair Kevin Riley pressed the applicant on the unit mix for the Marcus Garvey Boulevard LSGD, a 14-story affordable senior housing building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, asking on Councilmember Ossé's behalf to squeeze in more one-bedrooms since he's no fan of studios. The project carries a Borough President support letter and commits to new plaza, courtyard, fencing, lighting, and security upgrades, though the applicant said they hadn't yet heard back from the Council Member.
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Williamsburg
The North Seventh Street rezoning in Williamsburg moved through the hearing, clearing a new six-story residential building of roughly 28 apartments. The applicant cited unconditional approval from the Brooklyn Borough President and argued the area is in dire need of residential and affordable units.
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Queens
Heard an Article 11 tax exemption request under Section 577 of the Private Housing Finance Law for Ocean Crest, an affordable home-ownership development of about 89 units in Queens whose site rezoning the Council already approved in 2023. Restored Homes HDFC and TCB Beach Channel Drive LP are the owners seeking the exemption.
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Manhattan
Held the hearing on the zoning special permit for the 145 (one forty-five) project in Harlem, located in Councilmember Salaam's district, with the comprehensive hearing having been held previously. A member of the public, Julius, came up to ask whether this was the 145 hearing and was told it had already concluded.
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