Avery Hall’s Brian Ezra and 272 Fourth Avenue (Google Maps)
Avery Hall Investments has two potential plans for a development site in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Both depend on the city rezoning the neighborhood, and one relies on acquiring 50,000 square feet of air rights.
The developer on Thursday unveiled proposals for a 14-story residential building with 125 apartments at 272 Fourth Avenue. Under this scenario, more than 30 units would be set aside for low- to middle-income tenants.
That vision relies on approval of the proposed Gowanus rezoning, which would mandate a certain percentage of affordable housing in all-new residential construction as part of the city’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program. Avery also is eyeing 50,000 square feet of air rights owned by the city, which could be transferred from an adjacent MTA substation at 276 Fourth Avenue.
Hoylman takes aim at Penn project after Cuomo aides tried to boost support for Manhattan BP bid Denis Slattery
ALBANY State Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) is pitching a piece of legislation that would force Gov. Cuomo’s controversial redevelopment plan around Penn Station to go through the standard city land-use review process.
The introduction of the measure comes after the Daily News revealed that top Cuomo officials tried unsuccessfully to drum up union support for Hoylman’s Manhattan borough president bid earlier this year.
Hoylman refused to comment on the calls made by Cuomo allies to union officials or his relationship with the governor, instead focusing on the one-house bill that would make the Empire Station Complex project subject to the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.
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UPDATED, April 19, 2021, 4:30 p.m.: The Gowanus rezoning is a go.
Judge Katherine Levine on Monday agreed to lift a temporary restraining order, allowing the proposal to enter the city’s seven-month approval process.
The City Planning Commission certified the neighborhood rezoning application Monday afternoon, officially kicking off the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. City Planning Chair Marisa Lago called the move a “giant step closer” to building a more “inclusive” and “green future” for the neighborhood.
“The Gowanus plan is an antidote to the status quo, a status quo that has long put wealthy, amenity-rich neighborhoods under glass and out-of-reach for too many New Yorkers,” she said.