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    Non-Essential Construction in the City is Suspended Due to COVID-19 Emergency

    Coronavirus  •  Citywide

    Governor Cuomo addressing the COVID-19 Crisis Image Credit:
    Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo

    All construction permits will need to be active and renewed during the suspension period.  On March 30, 2020, the Department of Buildings announced that all work on non-essential construction and demolition sites is suspended for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Buildings made the decision to suspend such construction and demolition following Governor Andrew Cuomo’s amended executive order and the Empire State Development Corporation’s guidelines. The executive order, which required non-essential businesses and nonprofits to limit in-person work to curb COVID-19 transmission, was amended on March 27, 2020 to include the suspension of all non-essential construction.

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    Tags : construction, coronavirus, Council Member Brad Lander, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, COVID-19, department of buildings, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
    Date:04/13/2020
    Category : Department Of Buildings
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    Mayor Announces Permanently Car-Free Prospect Park

    Transportation  •  Prospect Park, Brooklyn

    Prospect Park. Image Credit: Joe Buglewicz courtesy of nycgo.com.

    Prospect Park’s entire loop drive will be permanently car-free as of January 2, 2018. On October 23, 2017, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans for the closure of Prospect Park’s East Drive to vehicles. The announcement follows the success of the Park’s car-free summer when East Drive was closed from July 17 to September 11. After Labor Day weekend, a petition with over 1,100 signatures to continue the car-free program was received. The Park’s West Drive has been permanently car-free since 2015. The Park’s East Drive will be closed to vehicles on January 2, 2018.

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    Tags : Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, Council Member Brad Lander, Council Member Mathieu Eugene, Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Prospect Park
    Date:10/25/2017
    Category : Office of the Mayor
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    City Council Members Berate Applicant for Withdrawing MIH Commitment; Deny Application

    ULURP  •  Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
    Council Member Brad Lander. Image Credit: William Alatriste for the City Council.

    Council Member Brad Lander. Image Credit: William Alatriste for the City Council.

    The proposal would allow for the construction of a new ten-unit, four-story residential development on a vacant Brooklyn lot. On December 12, 2016, the City Council’s Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises heard testimony on an application for the rezoning of three lots at 14–18 Carroll Street, in the Columbia Street Waterfront District neighborhood in Brooklyn Community District 6. The developer proposed the construction a ten-unit residential building on three vacant lots, totaling 6,229 square feet and currently zoned for light manufacturing. The application included a zoning text amendment to apply Inclusionary Housing regulations to the area prior to the December 12th hearing. The developer would have had to make a required payment into the City’s affordable housing fund required by the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing law. (read more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Council Member Brad Lander, Council Member Donovan Richards
    Date:12/15/2016
    Category : City Council
    (1) Comment

    First Group of Backlogged Items Designated

    Designations  •  Citywide
    Vanderbilt Mausoleum and Cemetery in New Dorp, Staten Island.

    Vanderbilt Mausoleum & Cemetery in New Dorp, Staten Island. Image Credit: LPC.

    Landmarks voted to de-calendar St. Augustine’s Church and Rectory after designating an extension the Park Slope Historic District, in which the church is located. On April 12, 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission cast dispositive votes on ten items for designation, nine of which were included in the commission’s backlog initiative. Eight individual landmarks were designated, as well as one historic district. Commissioners voted to remove one item, St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church and Rectory, from its calendar. (read more…)

    Tags : Commissioner Michael Devonshire, Council Member Brad Lander, Council Member Stephen Levin, Greenwood Cemetery, Joan Millman, Lady Moody-Van Sicklen House, Lydia Ann Bell and J. William Ahles House, Marty Markowitz, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Pepsi Cola Sign, St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church
    Date:04/19/2016
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    CPC Holds Hearing on Proposed Brooklyn Heights Library Redevelopment Plan

    Application  •  Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
    David Kramer, principal of the Hudson Companies, testifying before the City Planning Commission. Image credit: CityLand

    David Kramer, principal of the Hudson Companies, testifying before the City Planning Commission.  Image credit: CityLand

    The proposed redevelopment would replace the current library with an upgraded library and luxury condominiums.  On September 22, 2015, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing on the Department of Citywide Administrative Services’ and Brooklyn Public Library’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure application to redevelop the Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.  The proposal would replace the current library with a new 36-story building containing a new library on the ground floor and 139 market-rate condominiums above.  The proposed plan would also construct 114 permanently-affordable housing units at an off-site location in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.  The Brooklyn Heights Library is located at 280 Cadman Plaza West, and would remain open throughout the redevelopment process at an interim location inside Our Lady of Lebanon Church, located at 113 Remsen Street, which is five blocks from the library site.  Clinton Hill and Brooklyn Heights are both located within Brooklyn Community Board 2.

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    Tags : Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Brooklyn Community Board 2, Brooklyn Public Library, City Planning Commission, Council Member Brad Lander, Council Member Stephen Levin, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, HireNYC, Hudson Companies, Marvel Architects
    Date:09/28/2015
    Category : City Planning Commission
    (1) Comment

    Residential Redevelopment of Theater Proposed for Bartel-Pritchard Circle Site

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Park Slope, Brooklyn
    Architect's rendering of the Pavilion Theater development. Image credit: Morris Adjmi Architects

    Architect’s rendering of the Pavilion Theater development. Image credit: Morris Adjmi Architects

    Proposal would demolish one-story commercial building to construct five-story-plus-penthouse apartment building, and build a contemporary addition onto 1920s theater. On April 18, 2015, Landmarks considered a proposal to demolish a one-story 1920s commercial building, construct a new apartment building, and alter and build an addition to a 1920s theater at 187-191 Prospect Park West in the Park Slope Historic District Extension. The theater building, at the corner of 14th Street, faces Prospect Park, as would the new apartment building, but with a longer curved facade on Bartel Pritchard Circle. The site’s developers are Hidrock Properties.

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    Tags : Brooklyn Community Board 6, Council Member Brad Lander, Hidrock Properties, Higgins Quasebarth, Morris Adjimi Architects, Park Slope Historic District Extension
    Date:08/26/2015
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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