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    Threatened Mansion Designated Two Weeks after Calendaring

    Designation Hearing; Designation  •  Sunset Park Property

    Maurice T. Lewis House. Image credit: LPC

    Turn-of-the-century mansion, identified as part of Sunset Park survey, was calendared as a last-minute addition to agenda two weeks prior to hearing, followed immediately by designation. Landmarks voted to designate the Maurice T. Lewis House, at 404 55th Street in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, immediately following a public hearing on March 6, 2018. Landmarks had only added the item to its calendar two weeks prior, as a last-minute addition to the day’s agenda. (read more…)

    Tags : Council Member Carlos Menchaca, designation, Designation Hearing, Landmarks, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Lewis House, Maurice T. Lewis House, Nydia Velazquez
    Date:03/19/2018
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Council Approves Construction Safety Training Requirement

    Construction Safety  •  Citywide

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

    City Council unanimously passed a landmark construction safety bill mandating worker training. On September 27, 2017, City Council voted 42-0 to pass Int. No. 1447-C, which will implement mandatory construction safety training standards citywide with equal accessibility. This bill was a controversial aspect of a package of construction safety bills, some of which were passed in May 2017. For CityLand’s prior coverage on this matter, click here.

    This bill drew the most debate at the January 31st hearing on the construction bill package. For CityLand’s prior coverage on the hearing, click here. On September 20, 2017, this bill was discussed and approved at the Housing and Buildings Committee meeting. Council Member Jumaane Williams, Deputy Leader and Chair of Council’s Housing and Buildings Committee, sponsored the bill. Williams noted the bill was amended 3 times in response to feedback from all affected stakeholders. Williams ended the meeting by dedicating a moment to the construction workers who lost their lives due to conditions that triggered the need for this bill. (read more…)

    Tags : City Council, Construction Safety, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito
    Date:10/12/2017
    Category : City Council
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    City Council Overwhelmingly Passes Tenant Harassment Bills Package

    Tenant Protections  •  Citywide

    Council Member Helen Rosenthal Gets a “High-Five from a Constituent. Image credit: NYCC/William Alatriste

    City Council passes a package of bills intended to strengthen protections for tenants subject to harassment by landlords. Since the mid-2000s and largely due to the housing bubble, predatory equity has become a metastasis on the New York City housing market. The expulsion of both rent stabilized and market-rate tenants is accomplished through means both legal, by abusing technical loopholes in State law, and illegal, by dangerous living conditions and intimidation. (read more…)

    Tags : Council Member Antonio Reynoso, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, Council Member Daniel Garodnick, Council Member Helen Rosenthal, Council Member Mark Levine, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito
    Date:08/11/2017
    Category : City Council
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    CPC Agrees to Legalize Overbuilt Building for Expanding Non-Profit

    ULURP  •  Red Hook, Brooklyn

    The Red Hook Initiative in Brooklyn. Image Credit: RHICenter.org

    City Planning Commission approves legalization and expansion of Red Hook non-profit servicing the needs of the community. On February 22, 2017, the City Planning Commission voted to approve an overbuilt building located at 763 and 767 Hicks Street in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood. The site contains two one-story buildings used by the applicant, the Red Hook Initiative. The two addresses total 4,794 square feet and rise to 19 and 21 feet high. Both buildings were zoned M1-1, which allows a maximum of 1.0 floor area ratio. Therefore both buildings were previously used as warehouses prior to the Initiative’s tenancy. (read more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, City Planning Commission, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, Red Hook
    Date:03/02/2017
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    CPC Holds Hearing on Proposed Oxford Nursing Home in Red Hook

    ULURP  •  Red Hook, Brooklyn

    David Estrada testifying before the City Planning Commission on behalf of City Council Member Carlos Menchaca. Image credit: CityLand

    Opponents of the nursing home are primarily concerned about its proposed location being within a flood zone. On March 30, 2016, the City Planning Commission heard testimony on an application submitted by Conover King Realty, LLC, on behalf of Oxford Nursing Home, to build a new nursing home in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. The proposed nursing home would be eight stories tall with the capacity to hold 200 beds and would serve to re-locate the existing Oxford Nursing Home located in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood.

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    Tags : Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Brooklyn Community Board 6, Chairman Carl Weisbrod, Comissioner Michelle De La Uz, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, Hurricane Sandy, Oxford Nursing Home, Red Hook
    Date:04/07/2016
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    Pratt Center Study Outlines Solutions for Industrial Rezoning

    Industrial Land Use  •  Citywide
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    Pratt Center for Community Development

    Study discusses solutions for achieving the expansion of affordable housing without sacrificing high-paying industrial jobs. On May 8, 2015 the Pratt Center for Community Development released a study, “Making Room for Housing and Jobs”. The study analyzed the relationship between land use policies and the declining trend of industrial expansion across the city. The study also discussed the possible consequences of the Administration’s plans to add additional mixed-use districts which they hope will provide for the creation of new affordable housing.  Earlier this month the City Council’s Land Use committee held an oversight hearing on land use policy, specifically, the protection of the city’s industrial sector.

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    Tags : Council Member Carlos Menchaca, Council Member Rafael Espinal, Economic Development Corporation, Industrial Business Zone, industrial land use, Pratt Center for Community Development
    Date:05/19/2015
    Category : Pratt Center
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