Minerva. Take Two. Roll 'Em.
After a year and a half of inactivity (except for flooding its neighbors) in the wake of the Board of Standards and Appeals rejection, our old buddy 614 7th Avenue aka the Minerva building is springing to life again. Last Tuesday, the owners (one of which is the charmer behind 338-342 42nd Street) filed plans…
After a year and a half of inactivity (except for flooding its neighbors) in the wake of the Board of Standards and Appeals rejection, our old buddy 614 7th Avenue aka the Minerva building is springing to life again. Last Tuesday, the owners (one of which is the charmer behind 338-342 42nd Street) filed plans with DOB for 11 new single-family buildings on the 100-by-100 lot—all with curb cuts for parking! This is a head-scratcher on several levels: 1) The 11 buildings total about 30,000 square feet of space and the 2.0 FAR for this lot only allows 20,000 square feet as of right; 2) Squeezing 11 buildings into this corner lot would make it impossible for every house to have a 30-foot rear yard as required by code; 3) The 40-foot-high buildings on 23rd Street would most likely violate the agreement that the former owner made (and that remains attached to the deed) not to block the view of the Statue of Liberty from Minerva in Green-wood Cemetery; 4) The 11 curb cuts would eliminate virtually all street parking on this entire corner. Are the developers purposefully trying to waste DOB’s time?
BSA Denies Vesting App for Minerva Building [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark
Yesterday’s BSA Hearing on Minerva Building [Brownstoner] DOB
I believe they only proposed 6 curbcuts, is that a problem? Sorry that i don’t aware of it. And how high is Statue Minerva’s Hand? I believe as long as Minerva’s hand can have a clear view to Miss Liberty’s hand it won’t be a problem, right?
You all brought this on to yourselves, ass—-s!
WT, not true under R6B zoning and they have filed for 11 separate 1 family homes. 4 on 23rd St and 7 on 7th Ave (mighty skinny ones at that, 14 ft?).
Yard requirements are significantly diminished on corner lots. As long as they keep the whole thing as one lot, that may not be an issue.
Hmmm. 11 curb cuts, 5 ft. each along a 100X100 ft. property line. Approx. so that’ leave 3.6 ft. between each cut IF they use the corner?
Fuzzy math or am I missing something?
Yes, actually I am. It’s not legal.
And the 30 ft. back yard requirement? What is it going to to be? A shared 30X30 ft swath of grass in the NW corner?
Perhaps a putting green?
What killed me about the 17th Street building is that it would have been SOOO easy to comply.
The street slopes. Make the building slope less, and you have an at-grade garage and the end for basement parking.
The building is a series of sub-buildings, so the builder would have had to spend a few nickels to put in transfer beams to hold them up. In exhange, there could have been a nice front area instead of a series of 45% slope driveways.
By the way, without parking on the sloped driveways the building doesn’t meet the parking requirement. So it not only takes away space on the street, it doesn’t provide enough parking off it.
Yet they get a C of O.
Real gem of an RA.
Seems that one of his jobs on Prospect Ave. Was an Alt 1 for an illegal conversion of a basement into apartments.
Perhaps 11 again?
Projects filed by Isaiah D Udoette, RA:
http://tinyurl.com/yoxsba
You got me on this one folks.
After a long hard fight at the BSA, then sit on the property, letting it become a dumping ground and mosquito pit (we knew this would happen / casualty of the battle)and now doing a silly filing for 11 properties…
Seems like someone is playing around with DOB making a whole lotta extra work for the plan examiners.
But considering the developer, no big surprise.