Bushwick Residents Accuse City Planning of Ignoring Their Community Rezoning Plan
They voiced their frustrations at a public scoping meeting, marking the beginning of the environmental review process, Thursday.
Tensions Flare at Community Board Meeting Introducing the Bushwick Rezoning Plan
At Community Board 4’s Land Use Committee meeting Tuesday night, City Planning introduced a draft of the Bushwick rezoning plan.
Neighborhood Advocates Identify Potential Gowanus Landmarks Ahead of Rezoning
Before tonight's public meeting on the rezoning of Gowanus, a coalition of preservation advocates has created a website documenting the area's architectural heritage they believe is at risk.
The Gowanus Draft Zoning Proposal Is Here, Promising Dense Development Along the Canal
The rezoning from industrial to residential is expected to allow 30-story apartment buildings around the canal and be a bonanza for current owners of industrial property in the area.
East New York’s WWII-Era Arlington Village Complex Gets a New Look
Arlington Village, a once nearly vacant two-block complex with a complicated history in East New York, has a new, spruced-up look.
City Council Subcommittee Requests Changes to Controversial Rezoning in Bushwick
The group wants the developer to drop existing businesses on Wyckoff Avenue from the rezoning area and make the development more affordable and smaller.
What Is Happening With the Bushwick Community Plan?
For a number of years, Bushwick residents have been working on a proposal that will serve as a guide for a possible rezoning of the neighborhood. But what is its status?
Community Board 9 Drama Over Rezoning PLG and South Crown Heights May Start Up Again Soon
Controversial community group MTOPP is once again gearing up again to fight a study that could lead to a rezoning of the neighborhood.
Closing Bell: Developer Seeks Rezone for Two Pfizer Blocks in Triangle, Plans 800 Apartments
Developer Rabsky Group has filed an application to rezone two blocks in Williamsburg’s Broadway Triangle, both part of the former Pfizer campus, to make way for two big mixed-use buildings with nearly 800 apartments, The Real Deal reported. Rabsky paid $12,750,000 in July 2012 for two properties there, which occupy the entirety of both blocks and are currently zoned for manufacturing.
The vacant properties, whose addresses are 249 and 334 Wallabout Street, total about 150,000 square feet. One of them is used for parking, and the Flushing G stop stops on the block.
If the rezoning were to go through, the properties could accommodate 622 market-rate units, 155 affordable ones and 32,000 square feet of retail, according to TRD. Back in 2012, the mammoth former Pfizer plant next door at 630 Flushing Avenue was converted to light industrial space, and the building is now home to a fashion accelerator, small food businesses, furniture makers and Brooklyn Grange.
Rabsky is also building on the next block, at 376-382 Wallabout Street, and is one of the partners developing apartments at the nearby Rheingold brewery complex in Bushwick, among other projects in Brooklyn. The Broadway Triangle has a contentious history, as various groups have clashed over building housing there.
Dushinsky’s Rabsky Group Plans Nearly 800 Units on Former Pfizer Site [TRD]
Pfizer Coverage [Brownstoner]
Broadway Triangle Coverage [Brownstoner]
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Abandoned Factory in Ocean Hill Sells for $2.2 Million
A long-shuttered factory and lot at 1725 St Marks Avenue, between Eastern Parkway and East New York Avenue in Ocean Hill, sold for $2,200,000 last month, according to public records. That’s about twice what we would expect.
It’s a large lot, nearly 7,000 square feet, but the property has a FAR of 1 and is only zoned for manufacturing. (The existing building is 1.39 over FAR, also.) About a year ago, small residential lots in Ocean Hill on the other side of Atlantic were trading around $180 per square foot. This sale price works out to about $314 a square foot.
Prices have been rising all across the borough, of course, and this property sits right next to the boundaries of de Blasio’s proposed East New York rezoning plan. If that goes through, it will turn nearby commercial-only spaces into mixed-use residential and possibly add as many as 7,000 apartments in the area, as we reported last month.
Signatures on the deeds show the buyer is an LLC managed by local investor Zalmen Wagschal. GMAP
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