Mayor de Blasio said he will unveil details of a long-awaited plan to repair the crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway’s triple cantilever in the coming weeks, but added that a larger long-term transformation will be up to his successor.
Dozens of locals came to a Park Slope park on June 3 to voice their thoughts on the city’s controversial Gowanus rezoning as part of a court-ordered, hybrid virtual and in-person public hearing.
Developer Avery Hall wants to buy the city-owned air rights for sale at a 4th Avenue transit substation as part of the Gowanus rezoning, which would allow the builder to add dozens of apartments to a planned mixed-use tower next door.
Under the K Bridge Park, a long-awaited greenspace beneath the Kosciuszko Bridge in Greenpoint, opened on Tuesday, offering a brand-new place for locals to spend their days amid the fresh outdoors.
When the city rezoned the north Brooklyn waterfront under then-Mayor Bloomberg in 2005, officials promised a sprawling riverside green space almost the size of Fort Greene Park.
Elected officials are asking the federal government’s Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that a potential influx of 20,000 new residents won’t cause further pollution and undo the waterway’s ongoing federal Superfund cleanup.
The Land Use Committee of Community Board 2 said the proposed project is too big and encroaches on the historic district.
The City Planning department released a guide for future development in the protected industrial part of Gowanus just outside of the neighborhood’s proposed residential rezoning area Monday.
The Gowanus rezoning can once again move ahead after a Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge accepted the city’s plans for a hybrid hearing on the proposal Tuesday, according to officials.
After widespread communal backlash, state park honchos are overhauling their designs for Williamsburg’s Marsha P. Johnson State Park and adding far more greenery as well as a mosaic of a poem.
