A developer has filed plans with the Department of City Planning to have a Rego Park site where the Shalimar Diner was located rezoned.
The application was filed earlier this year by David Koptiev, the owner of the Forest Hills-based company Platinum Realty, who is looking to construct a nine-story, 74-unit project on the 63-68 Austin St. site.
The plans were certified by City Planning on Oct. 5 and the public review process has begun.
The site had been occupied by the Shalimar Diner from 1974 through to the end of 2018. The corner property was purchased by two LLCs owned by Koptiev for $6,550,000 on Nov. 15, 2018 from Alderton Associates.
Alderton was owned by Hildy Limondjian, whose family had the property for decades.
The Austin Street site is currently located in a R4 zoning district—with a C2-2 commercial overlay—which typically allows for a three-story mixed use building, according to City Planning documents.
8 comments:
Make it 20 stories nobody cares anymore. The people who prefer less dense living have already moved.
What is the point of even doing zoning if:
1. A developer buys a site
2. Makes (perhaps) a donation
3. Gets a variance
Even worse, why cannot the preservation community start to organize city-wide (forget about the civic situation in 90% of Queens) - throwing the rest of us under the bus as they are now doing means they get screwed later - look what is now being proposed for Soho - I for one am LMAO.
Make it 30 floors atleast.
Demands! Listen to this crap. Demands!
By 2050 Queens will be all 10 story minimum buildings-bye bye houses. Then again, when you keep packing in more and more people into the city so that it has a Soylent Green like population of 40 million they all gotta live somewhere.
I agree bye bye houses but one should realize being in an densely over crowded area is where the pandemic thrives. Did we forget? So pack us in. Then carry us out when the invisible virus rages through the community.
Hell, make if 500 stories. Anybody who actually cared has moved out of shitty New York. Hell, put a day care, a religious institution, a needle exchange program, a medical facility for "work accidents", a dentist with a vet degree.....................no one cares anymore. Those still living in NYC, want an completely overcrowded, super expensive, filthy and third world country feel. NYC is toast..............avocado toast.
NYC is toast..............avocado toast.
no worries pal. NYC will be standing long after you and everyone else like you moved out.
has a kind of magic. is not NYC's fault. we the people are at fault. all of us. we need to get the progressive globalist, marxist, socialist, communist scum out of power.
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