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A huge two-story expansion has been added on top of a home on Cornelia Street near the Bushwick/Ridgewood border, and some residents are concerned that more of the same could be coming across to the Queens side.
According to documents filed with the Department of Buildings (DOB), the owners of 396 Cornelia St. filed for — and were approved for — expanding the existing two-story, two-family building into a four-story, six-family edifice. The application was approved in June 2015, and a permit was issued for the entire job on May 11, 2016.
This expansion will add a new second floor mezzanine level, a new third floor, a new fourth floor and a bulkhead on top of the building, effectively doubling the square footage of the building, from 2,254 square feet to 4,340 square feet.
The documents show that the building’s new additions are all in compliance with the area’s R6 zoning regulations, including the total height of the building, the required length and width, floor area ratio (FAR) and yard sizes. The plans even propose adding a tree to the site.
With the passing of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s zoning text amendments earlier this year, many residents feel developments like this could make their way into Ridgewood and neighboring areas.
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That is criminal and goes to show you what happens when the people do not take part in the local community governance. They should all know what their zoning is and they should have all known the capacity of R6 before it was passed by City Planning. Their local elected officials either failed to sound the alarm or were in on it. Note to all citizens do you know what your zoning is? Do you know what it means? You better find out before something like this pops up on your block.
Agreed! And a quick way for residents to find out is this map - zoom in to your block and lot and then click on your property. http://maps.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/
This better be the tipping point.
There are plenty of homes like this all over southeast Queens. Mayor Big Slow and the Shitty Council have opened up a veritable hornet's nest with this abuse of zoning rubber stamping.
This is not the way to stem the homeless epidemic, because it is certain that those higher floors will have inflated market rates. This is fucking madness.
Preet needs to work faster to get that 6 foot 5 bag of dead dicks out of city hall.
A tree grows in Brooklyn...
If all the neighboring homes would add on additional floors everything would look fine again.
Thank you Mayor deBlasio and our dumb councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley for selling out Ridgewood and Glendale.
Looks like this townhouse got a "hardon"!
Viagra building!
Welcome to the dumblasio years...where every single house looks worst and neighborhoods are too overcrowded.
Tip of the iceberg friends... Hoping the community (and/or their useless elected officials) step up and prevent this from becoming the norm...
I can't believe what I'm seeing! Who would even want to live in that? With the shoddy construction going on these days that place just looks unsafe. I second JQ's comment about Preet needing to work harder to get Big Slow out fast. If we get rid of him before election year, we're in a good place, otherwise the doofus might get in again!
When you elect the likes of Dizzy Lizzy Crowley, Me-Linda Katz & dogs, Danny Bath House Dromm and Bill Comrade DeBlazzzio you kinda get what you deserve. Get out while the going's good.
If that were in Flooshing it would be orange with Fedders boxes everywhere! Flooshing is by far the ugliest neighborhood in the 5 boroughs!
Looks like they added one more... on top!
The correct Pinyin transliteration is Fua-Xing, not Flooshing
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