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    Greenpoint Hospital To Become Affordable Housing

    Affordable Housing  •  Greenpoint, Brooklyn

    Rendering of Greenpoint Hospital Site. Image Credit: Architecture Outfit and Magnusson Architecture and Planning/NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

    Former hospital site will feature 512 affordable units and a new shelter for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness. On September 13, 2018, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development announced that a team had been selected to transform the Greenpoint Hospital site into a mixed-use development. The new development located at 288 Jackson Street will feature approximately 512 affordable units and a new shelter for 200 New Yorkers. (read more…)

    Tags : affordable housing, Brooklyn, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Hospital
    Date:09/26/2018
    Category : Housing Preservation & Development
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    Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Development Adjacent to Transmitter Park

    ULURP  •  Greenpoint, Brooklyn

    Project site adjacent to WNYC Transmitter Park in Greenpoint. Image credit: GoogleMaps

    Zoning Subcommittee heard testimony on proposed eleven-story tower to abut WNYC Transmitter Park in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. On May 16, 2017, the City Council’s Zoning Subcommittee heard testimony regarding an application submitted by Kent/Greenpoint, LLC, to develop an eleven-story mixed-use building in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. The applicant sought to amend bulk regulations related to the location of legal windows, landscaping requirements for off-street parking and minimum street wall heights in order to orientate the massing of the proposed building towards Transmitter Park. (read more…)

    Tags : Council Member David G. Greenfield, Council Member Donovan Richards, Council Member Stephen Levin, Greenpoint, Transmitter Park
    Date:05/18/2017
    Category : City Council
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    Transmitter Park in Greenpoint to Get 11-Story Mixed-Use Building Adjacent

    ULURP  •  Greenpoint, Brooklyn

    Rendering of the proposed 13 Greenpoint Avenue building designed by Kutnicki Bernsteing Architects.

    Planning Commission approved bulk regulation amendment for an eleven-story building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. On April 26, 2017, the City Planning Commission issued a favorable report on an application submitted by Kent/Greenpoint, LLC, to develop an eleven-story mixed-use building in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. The applicant sought to amend bulk regulations related to the location of legal windows, landscaping requirements for off-street parking and minimum street wall heights in order to orientate the massing of the proposed building towards Transmitter Park. (read more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn Community Board 1, Greenpoint, Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning, Transmitter Park
    Date:05/08/2017
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    HDC Identifies Six Preservation Priorities for 2013

    Historic Preservation  •  Citywide

    Advocacy group selects areas in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island as meriting preservation attention in 2013. The Historic Districts Council announced its “Six to Celebrate” list of preservation priorities on January 3, 2013. The areas identified by HDC consist of the Bronx Parks System, Manhattan’s East Village/Lower East Side and Tribeca neighborhoods, Brooklyn’s Greenpoint and Sunset Park neighborhoods, and Harrison Street in Staten Island.

    The six areas were chosen from applications submitted by neighborhood groups around the city. The selected preservation targets will be commemorated at an event held by HDC on January 29, 2013. (read more…)

    Tags : Bronx Park System, East Village/Lower East Side, Greenpoint, Harrison Street Historic District, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Sunset Park, Tribeca
    Date:01/10/2013
    Category : Historic Districts Council
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