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    Parking variance approved


    Board of Standards & Appeals  •  Variance  •  Upper East Side, Manhattan

    Lapsed 1980 variance re-instated and parking spaces increased in Upper East Side apartment. BSA renewed a lapsed variance for the owners of a 116-unit co-op at 1199 Park Avenue at the comer of East 94th Street. The original variance, which allowed the public lease of excess parking spaces not utilized by the buildings’ tenants, lapsed in 1980.

    The applicants stated that, in 1980 at the time of the variance’s expiration, 1199 Park Avenue was being converted to a co-op and the required renewal was not conveyed to the new owners. In 1993, a certificate of occupancy was issued permitting only 59 spaces. When a new parking operator, Majestic Car Park, LLC, took over the garage, it noticed a discrepancy and argued that the square footage of the garage permitted 74 spaces.

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    Tags : 1199 Park Avenue, Park Hill Tenants Corp
    Date: 11/15/2004
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    New building approved after two-story reduction


    Board of Standards & Appeals  •  Variance  •  Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    Four-story building will have 27 new dwellings. BSA approved a use variance, allowing the new construction of a four-story, 27-unit residential building with 14 underground parking spaces in an Ml-2 zoning district on the corner of North 7th and Berry Streets in Williamsburg. The building site, comprising two lots totaling 15,840 sq.ft., contains a former garage and a vacant one-story structure previously used as a food processing facility.

    The original application, which sought a six-story 43-unit building, was reduced and redesigned to address Brooklyn Community Board 1’s concern that the proposed structure would be bulkier than neighboring buildings. Even with the reduction, the Community Board still opposed the development.

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    Tags : 120 Berry Street, Brooklyn Community Board 1
    Date: 11/15/2004
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    Queens Hospital Center to get new senior care center


    City Planning Commission  •  Special Permit/Disposition  •  Jamaica, Queens

    Private company to convert City building to 296-person senior continuum care center. Health & Hospitals Corporation, Citywide Administrative Services and the Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center sought the disposition of City-owned land, a special permit to exceed a nursing home bed limit, and an exception to height and setback to permit the Skyline Commons project, a 296- person senior continuum care facility within the existing Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica Queens.

    Queens Hospital Center, owned by the City and operated by HHC, has ten buildings totaling 848,934 sq. ft. on a campus bounded by Grand Central Parkway, Parsons, Goethals, 82nd Drive and 161st and 164th Streets. All ten buildings are used for hospital and administrative services, with no dedicated senior facilities.

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    Tags : Health & Hospitals Corporation, Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Queens Community Board 8, Queens Hospital, Skyline Commons
    Date: 11/15/2004
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    Bronx site okayed for sewage overflow facility


    City Planning Commission  •  Special Permit Acquisition  •  Westchester Square, Bronx

    New 12-million gallon sewage storage facility to be built. The Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services sought approval of a 3.6-acre site selection for a combined sewage overflow storage facility to reduce stormwater sewage discharge emitted into Westchester Creek. The development required Commission approval for the site selection, acquisition of 155,900 sq.ft. of land and a special permit allowing the sewage facility in a residentially-zoned area of the Bronx.

    The site is located along an unmapped street in the southwestern portion of the Bronx Psychiatric Center, roughly bounded on the north by Waters Place, east by Eastchester Road and west by Industrial Place. The sewage facility would include a two-story operation building, with air treatment and mechanical facilities, and a 25- foot deep underground storage tank, 348 ft. by 170 ft. in dimension.

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    Tags : Bronx Community Board 11, Bronx Psychiatric Center, stormwater sewage discharge, Westchester Creek CSO Facility
    Date: 11/15/2004
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    Rezoning approved for two Verizon sites


    City Planning Commission  •  Rezoning  •  Clinton, Manhattan

    Commission approved Verizon’s consolidation plans. Verizon New York, Inc. sought to rezone two sites that it occupies in Clinton, Manhattan. The first proposal would rezone a 45,200 sq.ft. site at the intersection of Eleventh Avenue and West 43rd Street from M2-3 to C6-4. The second would rezone a 143,300 sq.ft. full-block area, bounded by Eleventh Avenue, West 47th Street, Twelfth Avenue and West 48th Street, from M2-3 to Ml- 5. The Commission unanimously approved both. Verizon intends to sell the up-zoned West 43rd site and consolidate operations into a new building located within the West 47th Street rezoning.

    The rezoning on the two West 43rd lots would allow commercial/ residential uses and increase the sites’ permitted building size from 90,400 sq.ft. to 452,000- 542,400 sq.ft. Verizon argued that the one-story warehouse and six-story office on the site were antiquated, out-of-character and required upgrading.

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    Tags : Manhattan Community Board 4, Verizon New York
    Date: 11/15/2004
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    Permit approved after compromise


    City Council  •  Sidewalk cafes

    Council approved application after delayed vote. Le Bilboquet Cafe, located at 25 East 63rd Street in Manhattan, sought approval of an unenclosed sidewalk cafe for four tables and eight chairs, which was heavily opposed by local residents. At the October 19, 2004 public hearing before the Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises, a large number of the community appeared in opposition and, after several hours of testimony, the Subcommittee approved. The full Land Use Committee’s vote was delayed at Council Member Eva Moskowitz’s request. Prior to the Land Use Committee’s scheduled vote on October 27, 2004, community residents and the cafe owner privately negotiated a compromise, allowing 16 chairs, but requiring their removal by 7 p.m. every evening. The Land Use Committee and the full Council approved the permit the same day, with Council Member Moskowitz abstaining from the vote.

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    Tags : 25 East 63rd Street, Le Bilboquet Cafe
    Date: 11/15/2004
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