Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises · Thursday, June 25, 2026 · 30m
The one where the Monitor Point deal closed moments before the vote and Brewer called $200,000 for the park 'nickeling a
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Lincoln Restler arrived with a deal struck 'just, moments ago': Monitor Point, the publicly owned Greenpoint waterfront site, will bring 1,150 units, 50% of the affordable units deeply affordable, a senior making $34,600 renting a one-bedroom for $911, plus a fully accessible Nassau Avenue G station and progress on the 27-acre park promised in the 2005 rezoning. Across the river, Gale Brewer supported the DeWitt Clinton Park North rezoning as modified but blasted the owners for offering only $200,000 for park improvements, 'nickeling and diming', after pushing affordability to 30% total. Chair
From the room
“will now be fully accessible with a new elevator going in. That is an approximately $60,000,000”
— Lincoln Restler
“The 12th Avenue site is also requesting a zoning map amendment to change the existing manufacturing”
— Farah Louis
“we like building affordable housing. If we can make the financing work, we'll be happy to do it.”
— Lincoln Restler
“Community board four has always advocated this, unlike other boards, what I call workforce housing”
— Gale Brewer
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01LU 0077-2026C 260061 ZSMSpecial PermitApproved
619 WEST 54 STREET
with 2 related matters · LU 0076-2026 · LU 0075-2026
The companion special permit for the second of the Duet Clinton Park North proposal's two development sites, transferring a development right out of Hudson River Park on the same park-funding logic; it was heard alongside its twin with no disposition recorded.
with 2 related matters · LU 0073-2026 · LU 0072-2026
Heard as half of the Duet Clinton Park North proposal, which spans two separate development sites: a special permit allowing the transfer of a development right from Hudson River Park's commercial piers, with the proceeds supporting improvements and capital maintenance in the park. No vote or disposition on this item was recorded at this meeting.
with 4 related matters · LU 0070-2026 · LU 0068-2026 · LU 0069-2026 · LU 0071-2026
Greenpoint's mixed-use rezoning rests on largely MTA-controlled public land, which is what lets the applicant pair a market-rate 'West Building' carrying permanently affordable MIH units with a 100% affordable 'East Building' and a museum on the same site.
Project will use union labor — the Laborers on construction and 32BJ for building services once the buildings are built
The Nassau Avenue G subway station will be made fully accessible with a new elevator, as part of the infrastructure investments secured alongside the Monitor Point rezoning
Modify the special permit drawings for the large-scale general development so the developer can increase the number of affordable apartments provided
Convert previously proposed commercial space to residential space
Reallocate some space previously allocated to the museum to housing
Extend the development site to include ALL of the MTA-controlled land
Developers to contribute $200,000 to DeWitt Clinton Park, paid over a few years and timed to the certificate of occupancy / temporary certificate of occupancy (ASR: 'CFO')
The additional affordable/workforce units must mirror and track the unit mix and unit sizes of the market-rate units (studios, one-, two-, three-bedrooms) — the applicant cannot build them all as studios
The affordable/workforce units cannot be concentrated on the ground floor — they must be distributed around the buildings
The post-abatement rent-stabilization protection must be written into law, not left as an assurance
Units must be ACTUAL rent stabilized, not 'equivalent to rent stabilized'
The applicant will partner with the Laborers union for the construction work on the project (union construction jobs)
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Procedure
Three proposals scheduled for vote at this subcommittee session — Farah Louis
Chair calls for member questions or remarks before the vote; none offered — Farah Louis
Items approved as described by the chair and referred to the full Land Use Committee — Unknown speaker
Chair thanks members of the public, colleagues, subcommittee counsel, land use and council staff and the sergeant at arms, and adjourns — Farah Louis
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