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    City Council Passes Two Bills Aimed to Help Cultural Sector Access Public Spaces

    City Council  •  Cultural Affairs  •  Citywide

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    The program follows the concept of the Open Restaurants program. On December 10, 2020, the City Council passed two bills designed to provide arts and cultural institutions across the city with more access to public spaces in response to the damage to the City’s cultural sector because of the COVID-19 pandemic.  (more…)

    Tags : arts and culture, Department of Cultural Affairs, Open Culture, open spaces, public events
    Date: 12/23/2020
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    City Council Approves SoHo Residential Conversion

    City Council  •  Special Permit  •  SoHo, Manhattan

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    The residential conversion project includes the restoration of cast-iron building in SoHo Cast-Iron Historic District. On September 7, 2017, the City Council voted 45-0 to approve an application for a special permit to allow residential and retail uses at 40 Wooster Street in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. The applicant, 40 Wooster Street Restoration LLC which is a subsidiary of the Northwind Group, sought the special permit to allow for residential and retail uses in what was once a primarily manufacturing district but has become over the years a mixed-use district. The SoHo Cast-Iron Historic District, which includes 40 Wooster Street, now contains many cast-iron loft buildings with retail, restaurants, galleries, and boutique clothing stores on the ground floor and with office and residential space on the upper floors. (more…)

    Tags : Council Member Margaret Chin, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 2, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, Wooster Street
    Date: 09/11/2017
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    City Council Member Seeks End-Run Around Lawsuit Against Mayor de Blasio

    City Council  •  Park Conservancies  •  Flushing Meadows Corona Park
    Flushing Meadow Corona Park

    Flushing Meadow Corona Park with District Overlay.

    A City Council Member submitted legislation to enact the very relief he is currently seeking from the courts. On October 13, 2016, City Council Member Rory I. Lancman, representative for the 24th council district in Queens, introduced legislation which would amend the City’s Administrative Code regarding local representation on park conservancy boards. The proposed law would require that every non-profit conservancy entity have a voting member on its board of directors designated by each council member representing the districts that the park may be located within. This proposal appears to be the result of an on-going legal dispute between Lancman and Mayor Bill de Blasio over representation in the non-profit conservancy group that helps maintain Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. (more…)

    Tags : Council Member Rory Lancman, Department of Parks and Recreation, Flushing Meadow Corona Park Alliance, Mayor Bill de Blasio
    Date: 11/02/2016
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    Rezoning Approved for Central Harlem Project

    City Council  •  Rezoning  •  Central Harlem
    Map of Approved Central Harlem Rezoning. Image Credit: CPC.

    Map of Approved Central Harlem Rezoning. Image Credit: CPC.

    Rezoning approved for project that will restore historic church building and provide thirty percent affordable housing to Harlem residents. On June 17, 2014, the City Council Land Use Subcommittee for Zoning and Franchises heard an application submitted by 117th Street Equities, LLC (Artimus) for a zoning map amendment to facilitate a mixed-use development in Central Harlem, Manhattan. The map amendment would rezone an existing R7A to an R8A zoning district on a block bounded by West 117th and West 118th streets, St. Nicholas Avenue and Fredrick Douglass Boulevard. The development is comprised of four buildings that consist of approximately 151 dwelling units and 12,201 square feet of community facility use. (more…)

    Tags : affordable housing, City Planning Commission, Council Member Inez Dickens, Council Member Jumaame Williams, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, Department of Cultural Affairs, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 10
    Date: 06/27/2014
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    Council approves changes to Clinton theater bonus

    City Council  •  Text Amendments  •  Clinton, Manhattan

    Amendments to Special Clinton District refine theater bonus zoning text. In 2005, the City Council approved several applications submitted by the Department of City Planning intended to revitalize the Far West Side of Manhattan. Among the approved actions was the establishment of the Special Hudson Yards District and the creation of a floor area bonus for theater use applicable to “Theater Row” in the Special Clinton District. 2 CityLand 4 (Feb. 15, 2005). In November 2007, City Planning submitted an application containing text changes to the Special Hudson Yards District that also included modifications to the theater bonus in the Special Clinton District. In response to concerns raised during the public review process, the proposed theater bonus amendments were separated from the application and were set aside for further review. In October 2008, City Planning filed a new application that included the previously proposed theater bonus amendments as well as several new amendments also relating to the theater bonus.

    The theater bonus applies to a one and a half block area bounded by West 42nd Street, West 41st Street, Dyer Avenue, and Eleventh Avenue. The original theater bonus text explained that residential developments that included floor area for “legitimate” theater space could utilize the theater bonus to add 3.0 FAR to the maximum base 10.0 FAR found in the C6-4 district. City Planning’s amendments clarify that for every three square feet of theater bonus floor area, one square foot of such area must be used for new performance space. The amendments also expand the types of theater (non-profit performing arts) and uses (rehearsal space) that may generate the bonus. (more…)

    Tags : Special Clinton District, Special Hudson Yards District, Theater Row
    Date: 02/15/2009
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