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    New York City Council to Hold First Ever Virtual Stated Meeting

    COVID-19  •  Citywide

    Council Speaker Corey Johnson Image Credit: New York City Council

    Follow CityLand on twitter if you cannot watch City Council’s first ever virtual Stated meeting. On April 15, 2020, the New York City Council announced that it will be holding a Stated meeting on Wednesday April 22, 2020 at 1:30 PM. The meeting will be held remotely, a first for the New York City Council. The Stated meeting will be the first since February 27, 2020. The subsequently scheduled meetings were all canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    Tags : Corona Virus, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, Council Speaker Corey Johnson, COVID-19, karen koslowitz, New York City Council, Stated Meeting
    Date:04/21/2020
    Category : City Council
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    Council Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Grand Ave and Pacific St Rezoning

    ULURP  •  Crown Heights, Brooklyn

    979-985 Pacific Street Rendering Image Credit: City Planning

    Council Member Cumbo applauds Community Board for involvement in zoning process. On February 12, 2020, the City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises held a public hearing on EMP Capital Group’s rezoning on the northeast and southeast corners of Grand Ave and Pacific Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The rezoning would facilitate the construction of a nine-story mixed use development on the northeast corner at 979-985 Pacific Street. Read CityLand’s prior coverage of this rezoning and proposed development here.

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    Tags : City Council, City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises, Council Member Francisco Moya, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, Crown Heights, M Crown, Rezoning
    Date:02/27/2020
    Category : City Council
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    Public Housing Committee Holds Oversight Hearing on NYCHA Private Investment

    Oversight  •  Citywide
    The City Council holds an oversight hearing on NYCHA's public-private partnership agreement. Image credit: CityLand

    The City Council holds an oversight hearing on NYCHA’s public-private partnership agreement. Image credit: CityLand

    NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye answered questions on the Triboro Preservation Partners agreement.  On February 10, 2015 the City Council Committee on Public Housing held an oversight hearing on Triborough Preservation Partners, a public-private agreement between the New York City Housing Authority, L+M Development Partners, and BFC Partners. The venture was designed to rehabilitate six of NYCHA’s Section 8 properties containing nine hundred units: Bronxchester Houses, Saratoga Square, Campos Plaza, Milbank-Frawley, East 4th Street, and East 120th Street.  Under the terms of the agreement, L+M and BFC own a fifty percent stake in the properties over the next thirty years.

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    Tags : City Council, Committee on Public Housing, Council Member Donovan Richards, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, Council Member Ritchie Torres, Council Member Rosie Mendez, NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, NYCHA, Shola Olatoye, Triborough Preservation Partners
    Date:02/11/2015
    Category : City Council
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    Astoria Cove Developers Testify Before City Council

    Zoning Text Amendment  •  Astoria, Queens
    Architect rendering of the proposed Astoria Cove development project.  Image Credit:  Studio V

    Architect rendering of the proposed Astoria Cove development project. Image Credit: Studio V

    Council Members questioned the developers on the project’s affordability and use of union labor. On October 20, 2014 the City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises held a public hearing on the proposed Astoria Cove development project. The project, which would create a new mixed-use development of 1,700 apartments, commercial space, a school, a supermarket, and parks, was approved by the City Planning Commission over opposition by both Queens Community Board 1 and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz.

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    Tags : Alma Realty, Astoria Cove, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Council Member Antonio Reynoso, Council Member Costa Constantinides, Council Member Elizabeth Crowley, Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, Studio V, Zoning & Franchises Subcommittee
    Date:10/23/2014
    Category : City Council
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    Rezoning Approved for Central Harlem Project

    Rezoning  •  Central Harlem
    Map of Approved Central Harlem Rezoning. Image Credit: CPC.

    Map of Approved Central Harlem Rezoning. Image Credit: CPC.

    Rezoning approved for project that will restore historic church building and provide thirty percent affordable housing to Harlem residents. On June 17, 2014, the City Council Land Use Subcommittee for Zoning and Franchises heard an application submitted by 117th Street Equities, LLC (Artimus) for a zoning map amendment to facilitate a mixed-use development in Central Harlem, Manhattan. The map amendment would rezone an existing R7A to an R8A zoning district on a block bounded by West 117th and West 118th streets, St. Nicholas Avenue and Fredrick Douglass Boulevard. The development is comprised of four buildings that consist of approximately 151 dwelling units and 12,201 square feet of community facility use. (read more…)

    Tags : affordable housing, City Planning Commission, Council Member Inez Dickens, Council Member Jumaame Williams, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, Department of Cultural Affairs, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Manhattan Community Board 10
    Date:06/27/2014
    Category : City Council
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