A major exterior restoration gave the once-decaying Coignet Building in Gowanus a new lease on life, and a new virtual talk will give a behind-the-scenes look at that project.
Among the list of wants are more public space and a study on coastal flooding in Red Hook and Gowanus.
Repair plans for Gowanus New York City Housing Authority buildings as part of the neighborhood’s controversial rezoning do not go far enough, according to elected officials and tenant leaders.
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.
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 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.
City officials added the sale of more than a football field’s worth of publicly owned air rights to the Gowanus rezoning application, documents reveal.
The city is in hot water for delaying work on a massive sewage and stormwater retention tank needed for the Gowanus Canal’s Superfund cleanup.
