Committee on Land Use · Wednesday, August 6, 2025

The one where the Land Use Committee cleared a 10,000-home Midtown rezoning and a shrunken Lenox Hill tower in a single

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It was a clearing-the-deck day for NYC's biggest land-use deals. Keith Powers walked his Midtown South rezoning over the line , 10,000 new homes, 3,000 of them affordable, while pledging to preserve the garment industry. Then he pivoted to Lenox Hill, where six years of fighting shrank the hospital from 516 to 436 feet and compressed an 11-year build into 5.5. Crystal Hudson closed it out with 47 Hall Street: a Brooklyn campus that sat vacant, became a migrant shelter, and will now hold 620 mixed-income homes. The committee removed MIH Option 2 on item after item, then voted 10-0.

From the room

“new mixed use residential building with approximately 114 units, of which approximately thirty would be permanently affordable”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

“reasonable concerns about living in<... a construction zone, the noise, the dust, and the disruption in a quiet residential neighborhood”
— Keith Powers

related zoning<... text amendment to establish these new districts with special district provisions as well as a map mandatory inclusionary housing area

existing health care campus, which consists of ten intercconneted buildings, some of which have been situated here since the eighteen hundreds

The decisions

01LU 0324-2025C 250185 ZMMZoning MapApproved

Midtown South Mixed-Use Plan

with 1 related matter · LU 0325-2025

Approved the Midtown South Mixed-Use Plan with modifications, rezoning an area that had only ever allowed commercial and manufacturing uses to permit residential alongside new light-manufacturing districts. Keith Powers, who said he'd worked on it "endlessly" with Council Member Bottcher, argued the changes still preserve a long-term home for the fashion and garment industry.

Mandatory inclusionary housing

Land-use review

CEQR: Other

Committee vote

Legislation →ULURP case →

02LU 0331-2025C 250050 ZMKZoning MapApproved

40 HALL STREET

with 1 related matter · LU 0332-2025

The 47 Hall Street rezoning was approved with Salamanca's modification to strip MIH Option 2 and deepen the required affordability. Crystal Hudson backed it as qualified support , the formerly vacant commercial campus, later used to shelter migrants and asylum seekers, will now yield 620 units of mixed-income housing (150+ permanently affordable at about 60% AMI) plus 530 construction and 350 permanent jobs, though she conceded "this project did not bring everything we wanted.

The deal

Site

40 HALL STREET

Affordable

150

District

District 35

Mandatory inclusionary housing

150 affordable

Conditions

developer commitment to use 32BJ building service workers + robust construction trades participation
publicly accessible open space + retail targeted toward local businesses

Committee vote

Properties40 HALL STREET

Legislation →ULURP case →

03LU 0333-2025C 240275 ZMKZoning MapApproved

347 FLUSHING AVENUE

with 1 related matter · LU 0334-2025

Approved the 347 Flushing Avenue rezoning, a zoning map and text amendment, as part of the Land Use batch (LUs 333 and 334).

The deal

Site

347 FLUSHING AVENUE

District

District 33

Committee vote

Properties347 FLUSHING AVENUE

Legislation →ULURP case →

04LU 0335-2025C 250030 ZMKZoning MapApproved

236 GOLD STREET

with 1 related matter · LU 0336-2025

The 236 Gold Street rezoning passed as a zoning map and text amendment, moved through by Salamanca alongside the rest of the slate (LUs 335 and 336).

The deal

Site

236 GOLD STREET

Affordable

District

District 33

Mandatory inclusionary housing

30 affordable

Committee vote

Properties236 GOLD STREET

Legislation →ULURP case →

05LU 0337-2025C 240223 ZMQZoning MapApproved

42-11 30 AVENUE

with 1 related matter · LU 0338-2025

The 42-11 30th Avenue rezoning in Council Member Caban's Queens district was approved with a modification to remove MIH Option 2 and add a different MIH option (LUs 337 and 338).

The deal

Site

42-11 30 AVENUE

Affordable

District

District 22

Mandatory inclusionary housing

8 affordable

Committee vote

Properties42-11 30 AVENUE

Legislation →ULURP case →

06LU 0339-2025C 250151 ZMMZoning MapApproved

855 PARK AVENUE

with 2 related matters · LU 0340-2025 · LU 0341-2025

The Lenox Hill Hospital rezoning won approval with modifications and a special permit requiring at least 95% of the site to be used as a hospital. Powers noted the deal compressed construction from eleven years to five and a half, shrank a 2019 plan once deemed out of scale (a 516-foot hospital plus a 490-foot residential tower), and secured a community benefits package anchored by a roughly $20M subway entrance.

The deal

Site

855 PARK AVENUE

District

District 4

Conditions

community benefits package including $20M subway entrance
≥95% of development site used as hospital
ground floor changes for ambulance access + mother baby access off Park Avenue

Committee vote

Amanda C. FaríasCarlina Rivera Crystal HudsonFrancisco P. MoyaKamillah Hanks Kevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shaun Abreu Amanda C. FaríasCarlina Rivera Crystal HudsonFrancisco P. MoyaKamillah Hanks Kevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shaun Abreu Amanda C. FaríasCarlina Rivera Crystal HudsonFrancisco P. MoyaKamillah Hanks Kevin C. Riley Pierina Ana SanchezRafael Salamanca, Jr.Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Shaun Abreu

Properties855 PARK AVENUE

Legislation →ULURP case →

Also in the record

Records not linked to a specific agenda item

Procedure

correction regarding Caban district modification — Keith Powers
all items coupled — William Martin

The people

Public testimony: 8 in favor

Practitioners & applicants

Committee Clerk (unnamed) · William Martin

The intelligence

Every parcel, owner, and applicant in this meeting, cross-referenced against Zonable’s NYC ownership, enforcement & legislative graph — the record behind the record.

Sign in for the full graph

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: 400 oath/ecb hearings across the 4 sites discussed.

Committee on Land Use · Wednesday, August 6, 2025

The one where the Land Use Committee cleared a 10,000-home Midtown rezoning and a shrunken Lenox Hill tower in a single

Contents & search

items

approved

land-use items

affordable

188

CEQR: Other

Try

From the room

“new mixed use residential building with approximately 114 units, of which approximately thirty would be permanently affordable”
— Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

“reasonable concerns about living in<... a construction zone, the noise, the dust, and the disruption in a quiet residential neighborhood”
— Keith Powers

related zoning<... text amendment to establish these new districts with special district provisions as well as a map mandatory inclusionary housing area

existing health care campus, which consists of ten intercconneted buildings, some of which have been situated here since the eighteen hundreds

The decisions

01LU 0324-2025C 250185 ZMMZoning MapApproved

Midtown South Mixed-Use Plan

with 1 related matter · LU 0325-2025

Mandatory inclusionary housing

Land-use review

CEQR: Other

Committee vote

Legislation →ULURP case →

02LU 0331-2025C 250050 ZMKZoning MapApproved

40 HALL STREET

with 1 related matter · LU 0332-2025

The deal

Site

40 HALL STREET

Affordable

150

District

District 35

Mandatory inclusionary housing

150 affordable

Conditions

developer commitment to use 32BJ building service workers + robust construction trades participation
publicly accessible open space + retail targeted toward local businesses

Committee vote

Properties40 HALL STREET

Legislation →ULURP case →

03LU 0333-2025C 240275 ZMKZoning MapApproved

347 FLUSHING AVENUE

with 1 related matter · LU 0334-2025

Approved the 347 Flushing Avenue rezoning, a zoning map and text amendment, as part of the Land Use batch (LUs 333 and 334).

The deal

Site

347 FLUSHING AVENUE

District

District 33

Committee vote

Properties347 FLUSHING AVENUE

Legislation →ULURP case →

04LU 0335-2025C 250030 ZMKZoning MapApproved

236 GOLD STREET

with 1 related matter · LU 0336-2025

The 236 Gold Street rezoning passed as a zoning map and text amendment, moved through by Salamanca alongside the rest of the slate (LUs 335 and 336).

The deal

Site

236 GOLD STREET

Affordable

District

District 33

Mandatory inclusionary housing

30 affordable

Committee vote

Properties236 GOLD STREET

Legislation →ULURP case →

05LU 0337-2025C 240223 ZMQZoning MapApproved

42-11 30 AVENUE

with 1 related matter · LU 0338-2025

The 42-11 30th Avenue rezoning in Council Member Caban's Queens district was approved with a modification to remove MIH Option 2 and add a different MIH option (LUs 337 and 338).

The deal

Site

42-11 30 AVENUE

Affordable

District

District 22

Mandatory inclusionary housing

8 affordable

Committee vote

Properties42-11 30 AVENUE

Legislation →ULURP case →

06LU 0339-2025C 250151 ZMMZoning MapApproved

855 PARK AVENUE

with 2 related matters · LU 0340-2025 · LU 0341-2025

The deal

Site

855 PARK AVENUE

District

District 4

Conditions

community benefits package including $20M subway entrance
≥95% of development site used as hospital
ground floor changes for ambulance access + mother baby access off Park Avenue

Committee vote

Properties855 PARK AVENUE

Legislation →ULURP case →

Also in the record

Records not linked to a specific agenda item

Procedure

correction regarding Caban district modification — Keith Powers
all items coupled — William Martin

The people

Public testimony: 8 in favor

Practitioners & applicants

Committee Clerk (unnamed) · William Martin

The intelligence

Every parcel, owner, and applicant in this meeting, cross-referenced against Zonable’s NYC ownership, enforcement & legislative graph — the record behind the record.