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    City Planning Creates Plan Responding to Bushwick’s Rapid Development

    Department Of City Planning  •  Community Development  •  Bushwick, Brooklyn

    NYC Department of City Planning

    The plan will address community concerns including affordable housing, open space, transportation safety, and economic development. On April 24, 2019, Department of City Planning Director Marisa Lago released the Bushwick Neighborhood Plan Update. The plan was created in response to the neighborhood’s rapid development, population growth, resident displacement, and lack of affordable housing from an increase in market-rate construction. (more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn, Bushwick, Bushwick Neighborhood Plan Update, Department of City Planning
    Date: 05/10/2019
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    HPD Announces Partners for Two Senior Affordable Housing Projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn

    Uncategorized  •  Senior housing  •  Soundview, Bronx and Bushwick, Brooklyn

    Casa Celina will offer 200 senior affordable units in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Image credit: NYC HPD

    There will be over 350 affordable units for seniors between the two projects. On March 11, 2019, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) announced the selection of partners for the development of two 100 percent senior affordable housing projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn. The projects are a part of HPD’s Senior First strategy, a three-prong strategy to ensure safe and affordable housing for seniors in New York City. (more…)

    Tags : affordable housing, Bushwick, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, senior housing, soundview
    Date: 03/18/2019
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    Residents Oppose New Development In Bushwick

    City Planning Commission  •  ULURP  •  Bushwick, Brooklyn

    1601 DeKalb Avenue. Image credit: CPC.

    Applicant faces uphill battle to turn parking lot into residential building. On June 13, 2018, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing on an application by Camber Property Group for rezoning at 1601 DeKalb Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The rezoning will facilitate the construction of a new residential building. The rezoning will affect three lots owned by Camber and seven lots not owned by the applicant. The new building, however, will be constructed on the three lots owned by Camber, which is currently a parking lot. (more…)

    Tags : affordable housing, Bushwick, Camber Property Group, FAR, Local 32BJ, MIH, Rezoning
    Date: 07/11/2018
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    Mayor Announces $17.5M Allocation for Bushwick Inlet Park

    Office of the Mayor  •  City Parks  •  Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    Mayor Bill de Blasio. Image credit: CityLand

    The de Blasio administration furthers efforts to create more public park space for the North Brooklyn community. On October 31, 2017, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he will allocate $17.5 million for the development and remediation of two parcels of parkland at Bushwick Inlet Park. $7.7 million of the allocated funds will go towards developing the 50 Kent site into a new park while the remaining $9.8 million will go toward the remediation and development of two parcels of parkland at the Motiva site.

    Last year, the City purchased the final parcel of land needed for the total acquisition of the park site. Since then, 3.5 acres have been completed and the park has been opened to the public. Currently, the park has a multi-purpose field and an environmentally-friendly building for community activities and incorporates both natural and urban elements of the surrounding community. (more…)

    Tags : Assembly Member Joseph Lentol, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Bushwick, Bushwick Inlet Park, Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, Council Member Stephen Levin, Department of Parks and Recreation, Mayor Bill de Blasio, North Brooklyn, Williamsburg
    Date: 11/07/2017
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    Non-profits Team Up to Convert Vacant City Land to Affordable Housing

    City Planning Commission  •  Affordable Housing  •  Bushwick, Brooklyn

    Rendering of proposed 4-story building at 63 Stockholm Street, Brooklyn. Image Credit: STAT Architecture/CPC.

    The new building will bring 20 deeply affordable units to Bushwick, and will be constructed with sustainability features. On February 13, 2019, the City Planning Commission voted to approve an application by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development for the construction of a new and 100 percent affordable 20-unit building in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. HPD sought City Planning’s approval for the disposition of the City-owned property at 63 Stockholm Street, designation of the property as an Urban Development Action Area Program (UDAAP), and project approval. (more…)

    Tags : “Passive House” standards, 63 Stockholm Street, affordable housing, Brooklyn, Bushwick, Disposition of City-owned property, UDAAP, Urban Development Action Area Project
    Date: 02/25/2019
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