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    City Council Approves Changes to Street Vendor System

    City Council  •  Street Vendors  •  Citywide

    Image credit: New York City Council.

    The new bill releases 4,000 new street vendor permits over the course of ten years. On January 28, 2021, the City Council voted to approve Int 1116-B, which provides significant changes to the street vendor system. Prior to the legislation, the number of street vendor permits had been capped at 3,000 since 1983. Given the high demand for permits, limiting the number of permits opened an illegal market for renting out permits. Int 1116-B, sponsored by Council Member Margaret Chin, was created to address these issues by releasing more permits and creating more oversight.  (more…)

    Tags : legislation, permits, street vendors
    Date: 02/16/2021
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    City Council Tweaks Six-Acre Seward Park Redevelopment Plan Proposed for Area Along Delancey Street

    City Council  •  Rezoning/Special Permits  •  Lower East Side, Manhattan

    EDC’s vision for the Seward Park redevelopment area in the Lower East Side. Credit: EDC

    The City agreed to increase number of housing units from 900 to 1,000 and set aside space for on-site public school. On October 11, 2012 the City Council modified and approved the City’s Seward Park Mixed-Use Development Project. The 1.65 million-square-foot project will impact nine City-owned lots on the north and south sides of Delancey Street between Ludlow and Clinton Streets in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The City envisions the development of six new mixed-use buildings, 500 underground public parking spaces, and the potential relocation of the Essex Street Market to a large space on the south side of Delancey. As initially proposed, the project would create 900 residential units,  450 of which would affordable for low-, moderate-, and middle-income tenants. The Economic Development Corporation, which is the authorized representative for the multi-agency effort, has not identified a developer, but plans to issue a formal request for proposals in January 2013.

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    Tags : Economic Development Corporation, Manhattan Community Board 3, Seward Park
    Date: 10/26/2012
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    Three Affordable Housing Projects Approved by Land Use Committee with Measured Disapproval

    City Council  •  affordable housing  •  Brooklyn

    Council Member Jumaane Williams. Image credit: NYCC/William Alatriste

    The City Council’s Land Use Committee approved three projects in Brooklyn with varying forms and degrees of affordable housing. On April 20, 2017, the Land Use Committee voted to approve three new projects with some dissent registered. During the meeting, Council Member Jumaane Williams remarked that as a body the City Council was presenting two faces. One face to the public in discussing homelessness and affordable housing, and another face when voting on projects “that do nothing to help homelessness or provide real affordability.” He argued that the public would be outraged if it really knew what types of projects were being approved by the City Council. (more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn, Council Member David G. Greenfield, Council Member Inez Barron, Council Member Jumaame Williams
    Date: 04/25/2017
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    Planning Approves Modified Chelsea Market Expansion Plan, Sends Back to Council for Full Vote [Update: Expansion Approved by Full Council]

    City Council  •  Rezoning/Text Amendment  •  Chelsea, Manhattan

    Chelsea Market exterior at 75 Ninth Avenue, Manhattan. Credit: Chelsea Market.

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    Affordable housing contribution would be used by nearby Fulton Houses if floor area bonus utilized. On October 25, 2012, the City Council’s Land Use Committee approved Jamestown Properties’ modified expansion plan for Chelsea Market at 75 Ninth Avenue in Manhattan. The Market is a complex of 18 different buildings occupying the entire block bounded by West 14th and West 15th Streets and Ninth and Tenth Avenues. A section of the High Line Park cuts through the Market along Tenth Avenue. The expansion would facilitate the growth of Chelsea Market’s creative and media office use, as well as provide financial and practical benefits to the High Line.

    The proposed expansion plan includes a 240,000-square-foot office space enlargement for 85 Tenth Avenue and a 90,000-square-foot enlargement at 75 Ninth Avenue for hotel use. The plan also extends the Special West Chelsea District to include the entire Chelsea Market block. The Special West Chelsea District was created in 2005. 2 CityLand 83 (July 15, 2005). The inclusion would facilitate the proposed expansion by retaining the block’s M1-5 zoning designation, and by allowing an increase in the maximum floor area ratio on the site from 5.0 to 7.5 FAR upon Jamestown making a financial contribution to the High Line Improvement Fund. Jamestown also promised to provide the High Line with amenities such as public restrooms and a freight elevator. (more…)

    Tags : Chelsea Market, City Planning Commission, High Line, Jamestown Properties, Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, Manhattan Community Board 4, West Chelsea Historic District
    Date: 11/12/2012
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