City Planning Approves FAC Project at 575 5th Ave
The Fifth Avenue Committee won the latest battle in the war over the 49-unit supportive housing project it is seeking to build on a municipal parking lot at 575 Fifth Avenue in the South Slope when the New York City Planning Commission blessed the project yesterday. Back in April, Brooklyn Boro Prez Marty Markowitz came…
The Fifth Avenue Committee won the latest battle in the war over the 49-unit supportive housing project it is seeking to build on a municipal parking lot at 575 Fifth Avenue in the South Slope when the New York City Planning Commission blessed the project yesterday. Back in April, Brooklyn Boro Prez Marty Markowitz came out publicly against the project, siding with a certain faction of neighbors who were concerned about the unseemly residents it would bring into the area. FAC addressed this issue in its press release: “The City Planning Commission’s vote in favor of the project is an important step in preserving the diversity in our Park Slope community and ensuring that everyone regardless of race, income or medical history can live with dignity in the neighborhood.” The press release also contained details about the composition of the units: 24 are slotted for formerly homeless people living with mental illness, 5 for formerly homeless individuals living with HIV/AIDS, and 20 for low-income community residents. Next step: A City Council’s Land Use Committee hearing. GMAP
Marty DK’s Fifth Avenue Housing Project [Brownstoner]
City Planning Considers 5th Ave Housing Facility [Brownstoner]
FAC Development at 575 Fifth Avenue [Brownstoner]
A long overdue decision. The fact that so much time, energy, and money was wasted to appease 3 or 4 local NIMBY’s is a travesty. Mr de blabla should spend half as much time focused on some of the real issues that face the Community. The ramifications of Atlantic Yards on this area would be a good place to start. It’s so much easier to harass a legitimate Developer like FAC than to try to do some real good for the community by going after the Ratner’s, Katan’s and Boymelgreen’s of the world.
Why the council man chose to take input from only the NIMBY 3, is the question that begs to be answered.
Maybe he thinks that they can bully the rest of the community into voting for him in his next attempt to stay on the tax payers dole.
Bad decision.
“The Kendra Webdale example is just a scare tactic. Perhaps if that individual who pushed her was not homeless, and was being monitered, treated and living like a human being in a facility similar to the one slated for the area, he wouldn’t have been so far gone as to have pushed her.”
Thank you Sterling Silver.
I guess not too many folks out there remember 20 some years ago when the mentally ill were dumped out of the hospitals and were living in Prospect Park, and in the streets of Park Slope.
I for one welcome my new neighbors.
loss of parking? why can’t the new people just sleep in the cars? and who says people typing into computers aren’t mentally ill?
Loss of what parking? DOT deemed it “underutilized” and transfered it to HPD. Done deal.
Lot was never more than half full and closed at night.
Poorer communities already are oversaturated with facilities to aid and house just about every group imaginable. Let’s share the responsibilities here, kudos on having this approved. Mental illness, spousal abuse and a host of other social cancers happen to every segment of society, and the people who need help come from every neighborhood. Why can’t Park Slope, or anywhere else share in the care and housing of people who are finally getting some of the help they need?
The Kendra Webdale example is just a scare tactic. Perhaps if that individual who pushed her was not homeless, and was being monitered, treated and living like a human being in a facility similar to the one slated for the area, he wouldn’t have been so far gone as to have pushed her.
Anon at 3:42 is apparently unaware that the waiting list for public housing apartments is YEARS long. If there were sufficient supportive housing available for disabled destitute people, there wouldn’t be funding for projects like this one.
Why don’t they just put these people into one of the many housing projects already in BKLN.
I bet you won’t be able to tell the 575 residents from the rest of the 5th ave hoi polloi.
If it was a lux tower, people would complain about that too.
How come no one is complaining about the loss of parking?
there goes park slope.