From the Queens Chronicle:
Residents of 186th Street in Fresh Meadows are concerned about plans for a 12-story hotel on their block that will have 49 parking spots.
Jim Gallagher, president of the Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association, said Tuesday the plans he’s seen on the Department of Buildings website call for the hotel to be built at 61-27 186 St., next to the former Filene’s parking lot. Preliminary plans call for a one-story parking garage to be built in the rear.
Calls to architect Chang Hwa Tan of Elmhurst were not returned and attempts to reach the property’s owner, Mayflower Business Group and Xiao Zhuang Ge, of Great Neck, one of the company’s principals, were not successful.
The DOB application calls for 33 units. The height of the building will be 127 feet on a 13,000-square-foot lot. The width of the property is 120 feet.
Gallagher said the property — which once housed three single-family homes — is zoned C4-2 and developers can build a hotel there as of right.
Pictured is the "before" shot.
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The DOB application calls for 33 units.
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Actually it has 102 hotel rooms and 33 dwelling units (apartments) in total. It will totally destroy this neighborhood.
I'm very very sorry to say this to the residents on that block but.
Your block is f-d
Is the nabe zoned for it?
If so sell your house,
or try to adjust to Manhattan congestion.
You have 2 choices.
They don't have enough land in China so the Asiatics have to fill in every available inch in NYC?
I hope the occupants practice good cleanliness because we'll be living with our noses up their asses.
That's a very busy area as is. A lil hotel won't make that much of a difference ;)
What about that mess across the LIE
Is the nabe zoned for it?
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Does it matter? Does zoning even seem to matter anymore in Queens??
As the article points out, the hotel would comply with zoning; it's as of right. :(
When is enough going to be enough, it was Glendale with atlas park a few years ago, now fresh meadows must be destroyed. All at that expense of people who don't have council members in their back pockets.
Wait till Vallone gets to Queens Boro Hall ....
You still don't get it folks.
This is an expendable neighborhood.
It was never built
to be one of the better places to live in the borough.
So this is where they dump the high rise that will never be built in Malba, for example.
Why do let these Asian developers go through with these permits and build all over Bayside and Fresh Meadows? They are all corrupt and sneaky! Wake up NYC Dept. of Buildings and do your job to stop them!
No way!
This 12-storey hotel will rise like a sore thumb in the area. Right now parking is a major problem of residents from nearby residents, & this hotels' guests will intensify the problem. The fenced exclusive parking lot adjacent are always full for the use of the existing stores customers of Federal Realty. The proposed 13-storey hotel will be located in an interior lot with narrow 20 yards street across the residents & too small to accommodate delivery trucks & amount of people to disturb their privacy. The sewer lines & pipes are 75 yrs old!!!
What is DOB thinking? This is a disaster.
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