Sunset Park One Step Closer to Rezoning
At a community forum hosted by Mayor Bloomberg and attended by seven community boards on Tuesday night, Amanda Burden announced that the City Planning Commission was committed to completing a zoning study for Sunset Park by the end of the year. This news follows closely on the heels of the news that the tower planned…
At a community forum hosted by Mayor Bloomberg and attended by seven community boards on Tuesday night, Amanda Burden announced that the City Planning Commission was committed to completing a zoning study for Sunset Park by the end of the year. This news follows closely on the heels of the news that the tower planned for 420 42nd Street would be trimmed from 12 stories to six after much protest from the neighborhood and intervention by councilwoman Gonzalez. As we learned from an email from CB 7’s Randy Peers, the campaign to attract City Planning’s attention to the area dates back to 2005. The straw that broke the camel’s back may have been the long list of out-of-scale developments that rezoning proponents submitted to Burden’s office.
420 42nd Street Building Gets Cut in Half [Brownstoner]
Sunset Park To Enter Downzoning Olympics [Curbed]
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Sunset Park needs to remain the way it is. We have all seen what happened to Park Slope, it has lost that neighborhood feeling. I own a home there and although I am glad I can rent it out to some schmuck (lol) for a lot fo money, I miss they way it was when I was growing up. I have now purchased a nice brownstone in Sunset Park and I love it here. I like that it has a lot of mom and pop shops, and no buildings so tall that you can hardly see the sky, I love the view of the water which would also be eventually lost with the construction of high rises. I say we need to start charging a fee for city people to come into Brooklyn, kind of like what Bloomerg is planning for NYC 🙂 Sunset Park has a genuine small town feel to it. All of those people who feel the need to live in big buidling should just stick to Manhattan and if they can’t afford it, they should move back to whatever hole in the wall they came from!!
Sunset Park needs to remain the way it is. We have all seen what happened to Park Slope, it has lost that neighborhood feeling. I own a home there and although I am glad I can rent it out to some schmuck (lol) for a lot fo money, I miss they way it was when I was growing up. I have now purchased a nice brownstone in Sunset Park and I love it here. I like that it has a lot of mom and pop shops, and no buildings so tall that you can hardly see the sky, I love the view of the water which would also be eventually lost with the construction of high rises. I say we need to start charging a fee for city people to come into Brooklyn, kind of like what Bloomerg is planning for NYC 🙂 Sunset Park has a genuine small town feel to it. All of those people who feel the need to live in big buidling should just stick to Manhattan and if they can’t afford it, they should move back to whatever hole in the wall they came from!!
Everyone should visit the Park in Sunset Park and watch a sunset there before jumping to any conclusion. Its one of the best views in all of Brooklyn, and to box it in would be a loss to everyone.
A “view-corridor” rezoning might be a good middle-ground, allowing for taller buildings down near the water where the elevations are lowest.
As a 3-year resident and property owner in Sunset Park, I’m wondering something:
Erixy suggests “If we leveled all of sunset park and constructed 20-story apartment buildings, every minority in Brooklyn could afford a decent apartment, cheap.”
Aside from the sociological and economic pitfalls of this approach (let’s pack every minority in Brooklyn into cheap apartments), tell me, WHERE WOULD EVERYONE PARK?
Or do people of color not drive in your world?
so is sunset park being gentrified? if so, how quickly?
Eryximachus, you’re an idiot. What do you think community boards are for if not for residents of that community to express how they want their community run? It’s called democracy, you fool, and I hope there’s no room for bone-heads like yourself ever in Sunset Park. Stay in Manhattan. I’ve been in this neighborhood for 50 years, and we don’t need 12 storey buildings just so you and your yuppie friends can crowd a neighborhood where you’re not wanted.
I’m not sure what re-zoning does for any community. All I know is that I’ve lived in SSP for 6 years now, and the biggest builders are the Chinese and they tend to build big ugly poorly contructed apartments that are immediately rented by all. Mostly to the “minorities” (in this nabe, this is the majority.) These apartments are so cheap, I live in one– although if I made more money I’d move to a nicer apartment in SSP in a second.
At the end of the day rezoning-reschmoozing. The group with the most money wins.
But hey, maybe I’ll stop being such a cynic and attend one of these community board meetings!
Lostinbrooklyn, can you read? I could care less about the diversity of the community board – this doesn’t change the fact that density restrictions disproportionately affect minorities negatively. It also doesn’t change the fact that many, if not most, municipalities that have density restrictions do so out of racist or classist motivations.
I may just start coming to your meetings to stir up trouble – but you won’t know for sure it’s me. I love making the crazies, you know, a bit crazy!!!
In the meantime, I’ll continue to fight for a rational approach to land usage in this city – such that the whims of the landed gentry are put far below the needs of the rest of the people who are not as fortunate as you. I’m also pushing for single family homes to be assessed at the full market value, and the tax rate to be doubled.
If you want to maintain the housing shortage and requisite high prices, I want people like you to pay!
Ha, looked up the troll’s name on Answers.com
“Eryximachus – A doctor and a guest at Plato’s symposium. He is presented throughout as rather pompous, confident in his medical skills, and insistent on …”
Why go on?