01LU 0382-2025G 250083 XAXApproved
Claremont House: 1640 Anthony Avenue, Article XI
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Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings and Dispositions · Wednesday, October 8, 2025
The one where the Landmarks Subcommittee designated no landmarks and waved through two affordable-housing deals instead
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Acting chair Sandy Nurse opened a landmarks subcommittee that heard no historic designations at all. The agenda was two HPD housing deals previously heard by the panel: Claremont House at 1640 Anthony Avenue in the Bronx, a 13-story building with 65 affordable homeownership units, and an amendment to the long-running Arverne East project in Far Rockaway - roughly 1,650 residential units plus dune and nature preserves, first approved by the council in 2021. Both moved on Article 11 tax exemptions and UDAAP designations. The vote stalled at five affirmative until Chair Kamillah Hanks reopened th
From the room
“approval of disposition of city owned property and an Article 11 tax exemption for the development.”
— S6
“Claremont House at 1640 Anthony Avenue in the Bronx and Councilmember Feliz's district”
— S7
“land use items 393, 394, and 395 for the Averne East project located in Majority Whip Brooks Powers District”
— S8
“four applications by HPD, including a zoning map amendment to rezone the project area to an R8A zoning”
— S7
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The decisions
502LU 0367-2025N 250222 ZRXZoning TextApproved
Claremont House: 1640 Anthony Avenue
with 2 related matters · LU 0366-2025 · LU 0365-2025
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03LU 0393-2025G 250085 NUQApproved
Arverne East Amendment
Adopted 6-0 and referred to the full Land Use Committee, this was the Arverne East item (LU 393, 394, and 395) in Council Member Brooks-Powers' Queens district. The vote first stalled at 5-0, prompting Chair Hanks to reopen it to land the sixth aye.
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04LU 0395-2025G 250087 XAQArt. XI Tax ExemptionApproved
Arverne East Building D - Rental, Article XI
05LU 0394-2025G 250086 XAQArt. XI Tax ExemptionApproved
Arverne East Building D - Open Door, Article XI
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Procedure
- Welcome to the Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings and Dispositions; no one may approach the dais during the vote — S10
- Councilmember Sandy Nurse serving as acting chair of the subcommittee — Sandy Nurse
- Reminder that this is a government proceeding and quorum shall be observed at all times; public must remain silent unless called to testify — S6
- Voting on two projects previously heard by this subcommittee — S3
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