The Metropolis Council has questions for the town’s head planner on how she plans to appreciate the Mamdani administration’s lofty housing targets.
The Land Use Committee put Sideya Sherman, director of the Division of Metropolis Planning, and Michael Sandler, deputy commissioner on the Division of Housing Preservation and Growth, by means of hours of questioning Wednesday on how the housing plan, often called Block by Block, might be applied.
Many Council members representing areas that seem on the “backside 12” listing of lowest affordable housing producers sought readability on how the fast-track rollout would hit their districts within the new yr, with Higher West Aspect Council member Gale Brewer vowing to sue over the untenable necessities positioned on her neighborhood.
Decrease Manhattan lawmaker Christopher Marte wished extra granular particulars a couple of megaproject deliberate for 100 Gold Avenue in his district, which might find yourself as one of many densest residential developments within the nation at a proposed 4,000 items.
Marte had agreed to help the redevelopment of the city-owned website subsequent to the Brooklyn Bridge, the present location of HPD and different metropolis company places of work, in trade for preserving a plan to construct inexpensive senior housing away from the hotly contested Elizabeth Avenue Backyard website. However now that the Financial Growth Company has unveiled plans for GFP Actual Property to construct out its megaproject, Marte has doubts in regards to the potential knock-on results of an upzoning.
“My concern is that you just guys are permitting unprecedented growth,” Marte advised Sherman and Sandler. “A 30 [floor area ratio], like what’s being proposed at 100 Gold … permitting that to be mapped all all through Decrease Manhattan with out having a correct discourse with different stakeholders in the neighborhood makes it appear to be you’re utilizing 100 Gold as a Malicious program to map the remainder of the neighborhood.”
He additionally cited considerations about insufficient infrastructure and faculty seats to accommodate such a big upzoning, recommending that the zoning modification needs to be separated from 100 Gold and to plan for the neighborhood extra broadly.
“Clearly with the lifting of the FAR cap, it’s actually creating a brand new Manhattan skyline, a brand new metropolis skyline,” Sherman mentioned. “It’s creating a possibility to construct in ways in which we haven’t earlier than to essentially meet our housing disaster.”
Any future tasks with that degree of density might want to bear a separate rezoning course of earlier than the Metropolis Council, in keeping with DCP Govt Director Edith Hsu-Chen, who famous that 100 Gold would maintain a scoping assembly on Oct. 29.
What we’re eager about: Do you suppose Decrease Manhattan will get extra high-density residential growth like 100 Gold? Let me know at ben.miller@therealdeal.com.
A factor we’ve realized: The enduring Guggenheim Museum constructing designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opened 67 years in the past on Oct. 21, with hundreds of onlookers lining up down the block to catch a glimpse of the architectural marvel and its inaugural exhibition within the spiraling rotunda, which featured works by Kandinsky, Chagall and Brancusi, amongst others.
Elsewhere…
— Ken Griffin, Vornado and Rudin closed their joint-venture settlement on 350 Park Avenue after months of hypothesis that the Citadel CEO might abandon the plans after Mayor Zohran Mamdani took goal on the government in a video asserting the pied-à-terre tax filmed outdoors the constructing the place Griffin owns a penthouse, the New York Put up reported.
— New York Lawyer Basic Letitia James is taking credit score for housing deliberate for growth over the Atlantic rail yards, a part of the long-delayed Pacific Park venture, even earlier than these items or the required platforms have been constructed by LCOR and Cirrus. She additionally advised the New York Editorial Board that she needs to see extra housing constructed atop Sunnyside Yard and Coney Island’s rail yard, contingent on federal funding.
— A metropolis program to offer low-income New Yorkers combating eviction with free authorized counsel has correlated with a decrease frequency of emergency room visits throughout 10 ZIP codes the place this system first rolled out, in keeping with The Metropolis Reporter’s coverage of a brand new research from the Journal of Basic Inside Drugs. The Proper to Counsel program was first launched to neighborhoods together with Crown Heights, Tremont and Harlem in 2016, then went citywide in 2020. There have been no less than 26 fewer ER visits per 10,000 residents throughout the primary 10 areas the place the preliminary pilot rolled out between 2016 and 2020, however the research interval ended earlier than this system growth and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Residential: The most costly residential sale recorded Wednesday was $3.5 million for a 2,848-square-foot condominium at 1 Hanson Place in Fort Greene. Orrie King and Beth Doran with Compass had the listing. The unit final bought for $3.2 million in February of 2022.
Industrial: The most costly industrial transaction was $19.5 million for a 30,000-square-foot growth website at 2185 Coyle Avenue in Homecrest. The Real Deal reported on the transaction from ABS Companions and AAG Administration to Gilbane Growth final week.
New to the Market: The best value for a residential property hitting the market was $9.9 million for a 4,800-square-foot co-op at 227 West seventeenth Avenue in Chelsea. Kristi Ambrosetti with Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty has the listing.
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