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    Council Subcommittee Approves Eight-Story Mixed-Use Building in Sunnyside

    Rezoning  •  Sunnyside, Queens

    Rendering of the new eight-story building on 52nd Street./Image Credit: Albo Liberis and CPC

    The new development would be located near the 7 line and many bus stops. On March 13, 2020, the City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises approved an application to rezone part of 52nd Street in Sunnyside, Queens. The rezoning will affect the east side of 52nd Street, bounded by Roosevelt Avenue to the north and Queens Boulevard to the south. The street would be rezoned from a low-density residential zoning district that allows three-story buildings to a medium-density residential zoning district that allows eight-story buildings. The rezoning would facilitate the construction of a new eight-story mixed-use building located mid-block between 43-09 and 43-25 52nd Street. On February 19, 2020, City Planning voted to approve the application. For CityLand’s prior coverage on the application, click here.

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    Tags : 52nd Street Rezoning, City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises, Council Member Francisco Moya, Queens, Sheldon Lobel P.C., Sunnyside
    Date:03/11/2020
    Category : City Council
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    BSA Votes To Amend Prior Variance

    Permit Amendment  •  Little Italy, Manhattan
    Jordan Most testifies before the Board of Standards and Appeals. Image credit: BSA

    Jordan Most testifies before the Board of Standards and Appeals. Image credit: BSA

    Subject lot was altered following settlement of an adverse possession claim.  On June 23, 2015 the Board of Standards and Appeals voted to amend a previously-granted variance for construction of a four-story building at 129 Elizabeth Street in the Special Little Italy District of Manhattan.  The proposed building would have retail use on the ground floor, residential use on the upper three floors, and a one-car garage.

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    Tags : 129 Elizabeth Street, Board of Standards & Appeals, Jordan Most, Little Italy, Sheldon Lobel P.C.
    Date:08/20/2015
    Category : Board of Standards & Appeals
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    BSA Approves Residential Conversion in NoHo Historic District

    Variance  •  NoHo, Manhattan
    Richard Lobel testifies before the Board of Standards and Appeals. Image credit: BSA

    Richard Lobel testifies before the Board of Standards and Appeals. Image credit: BSA

    Board found a hardship caused by the site’s irregular shape.  On April 14, 2015 the Board of Standards and Appeals granted 31 BSP LLC a variance to permit converting an existing six-story mixed-use noncomplying building at 31 Bond Street in the NoHo Historic District of Manhattan into a seven-story Use Group 2 residential building.  The proposal will remove a backshaft from the rear of the existing building, vacant since 2010, and redistribute floor area to construct a new seventh story with a 1,500 square-foot penthouse.

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    Tags : 31 Bond Street, Board of Standards & Appeals, NoHo Historic District, Sheldon Lobel P.C.
    Date:05/26/2015
    Category : Board of Standards & Appeals
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    New Preschool Planned for Vacant Fillmore Place Lot

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Williamsburg, Brooklyn
    Rendering of 2 Fillmore Place Project.  Image Credit:

    Rendering of 2 Fillmore Place Project. Image Credit: Christoff Finio

    Applicants say wood in proposed façade would mirror the tone of the historic district’s primarily masonry fabric in contemporary language. On July 8, 2014, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, in its first meeting headed by new Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan, considered a proposal for a new building on a vacant lot at 2 Fillmore Place, at the corner of Driggs Avenue, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The site lies in the Fillmore Place Historic District, a 29-property district that was designated in 2009. The proposed structure would be used as preschool, utilizing the Reggio Emilia educational philosophy. (read more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn Community Board 1, Christoff Finio, Historic District Council, Meenakshi Srinivasan, Municipal Art Society, Sheldon Lobel P.C.
    Date:07/17/2014
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Western Beef Supermarket in Harlem gets BSA Go-Ahead

    Special Permit  •  West Harlem, Manhattan

    Future site of Western Beef in West Harlem

    BSA’s waiver of rear yard regulations needed to allow development of 79,498 square-foot supermarket on West 155th Street. Cactus of Harlem LLC applied to the Board of Standards & Appeals for a special permit to develop a 79,428-square-foot Western Beef supermarket at 280 West 155th Street in Harlem. The  project site is at the corner of West 155th Street and Frederick Douglas Boulevard, and comprises three lots currently used for parking. Cactus of Harlem’s proposal called for a three-story building with supermarket uses on the ground and second floors, and commercial uses on the third floor. The project would include 79 underground parking spaces.

    The lot is zoned C8-3, and an R7-2 district abuts the site’s southern lot line. Cactus of Harlem needed BSA’s approval to waive the zoning resolution’s rear-yard requirements because the building’s ground floor would extend to the rear lot line and encroach within the 30-foot open area required in commercially zoned lots abutting residentially zoned districts. BSA in 2000 had granted Cactus of Harlem a special permit to develop a smaller supermarket on the site, but the special permit lapsed and Cactus of Harlem acquired two neighboring lots in which to develop the project.

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    Tags : Manhattan Community Board 10, Sheldon Lobel P.C., Western Beef
    Date:08/03/2012
    Category : Board of Standards & Appeals
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