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    Development Will Add Eight Affordable Units in Melrose

    City property acquisition  •  Melrose, Bronx

    Rendering of 599 Courtlandt Avenue. Image Credit: Procida/CPC

    New development on current vacant lot will include eight affordable units and ground floor commercial space. On September 5, 2018, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing on an application by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) for the acquisition of property at 599 Courtlandt Street in the Melrose section of the Bronx. The property is located between East 150th and East 151st Streets. The applicants plan to build a mixed-use residential and commercial building.

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    Tags : affordable housing, City Planning Commission, city property acquisition, Melrose, The Bronx
    Date:09/10/2018
    Category : City Planning Commission
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    Variance Approved For Metropolitan College’s Bronx Campus

    Variance  •  Melrose, The Bronx
    Draft rendering of Metropolitan College of New York's Bronx campus building, viewed from Brook Avenue.  Image credit: Metropolitan College of New York

    Draft rendering of Metropolitan College of New York’s Bronx campus building, viewed from Brook Avenue. Image credit: Metropolitan College of New York

    College sited educational facilities in an M1-1 zone.  On June 24, 2014, the Board of Standards and Appeals granted a use variance to Metropolitan College of New York, a non-profit educational institution headquartered at 431 Canal Street in Manhattan, to use the entire second floor of a new building at 459 East 149th Street at the corner of Brook Avenue in the Bronx for educational purposes.  The site is in the shape of a triangle, bounded by East 149th Street on the west, by Brook Avenue on the east, and by an MTA right-of-way on the north where the 2 and 5 subway lines run aboveground.

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    Tags : Mayor's Office of Environmental Coordination, Melrose, Metropolitan College of New York, The Bronx, Vinton Thompson
    Date:08/21/2014
    Category : Board of Standards & Appeals
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