Thursday, April 8, 2021

Rezoning for luxury public housing building will displace small businesses

 

LIC Post

About 10 stores on Roosevelt Avenue are in jeopardy of being bulldozed to make way for a 13-story, 213-unit complex.

A developer has filed an application with the Department of City Planning to rezone a series of parcels on Roosevelt Avenue–between 62nd and 63rd Streets–to put up a large mixed-use building. The plans were certified Monday and the public review process has begun.

The plans involve rezoning a series of lots—62-02 through 62-26 Roosevelt Avenue– from a R6 and R6/C1-4 district– to a C4-4 district.Depar

Woodside 63 Management LLC., which is led by the Astoria-based real estate firm EJ Stevens Group, is behind the application.

The development would require the demolition of approximately 10 storefronts, occupied by an eclectic array of businesses– including a carpet store, laundromat, furniture store, restaurant, barber shop and 99-cent store.

The 13-story building would consist of apartment units on floors three through 13. The ground floor would be dedicated to retail, with office space on the second floor.

A community facility would be located on the cellar level. The developer is working with Mare Nostrom Elements on an arts/dance facility in that space.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Building large buildings next to a noisy elevated train are creating slums - 50 years from now these places will look like central Brooklyn with the el outside the window.

There was a reason those lots were reserved for commercial purposes.

Where is the Preservation Community? Oh, that's right, meeting at Hudson Yards so they can give each other awards.

Neighborhood preservation, 60 years after Jane Jacombs, is dead.

Anonymous said...

We don’t matter

Anonymous said...

We need so much more development in Queens along antiquated two lane thorofares

Anonymous said...

>We need so much more development in Queens along antiquated two lane thorofares

Excellent access to the subway, tho.

Anonymous said...

JQ I'm so old I remember when NYC needed to be bailed out back in the 70's.

Anonymous said...

"Excellent access to the subway"
Real good selling point COVID, Crime, Litter and a Metro Card !

Anonymous said...

New York City Is In SHAMBLES !

Anonymous said...

Most large U.S. cities, schools, and other various institutions are run almost exclusively by Dems, then they complain about the deterioration of their state, city, school etc and blame it on everything under the sun except themselves !

Anonymous said...

"Where is the Preservation Community"
That's like asking the mob to hold itself accountable.

Anonymous said...

For some reason , SOROS dream is becoming a reality , what a curious coincidence.

Anonymous said...

Yippie a Commie block apartment !

Anonymous said...

Again in NYC ! Thanks debozio and the Lemmings who voted for him.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/08/video-shows-bronx-popeyes-customers-bashing-man-with-sign/

Anonymous said...

To second to last Anonymous from bottom who asked: "Where is the preservation community? That's like asking the mob to hold itself accountable."

To that I reply: No one has ever CHANGED the MAFIA—by JOINING IT! Sadly, it's the same shabby (and predictible) obedience with all preservation community puppets and community board sycophants; the low level players may change, but not the bought-and-paid-for politicians, all of whom have continually destroyed quality, affordable life in this forever Blue Collar town with a vengeful impunity that remains unprecedented, to date. And, the public be damned!

❝It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion. All the harbingers of collapse are visible: crumbling infrastructure; chronic underemployment and unemployment; the indiscriminate use of lethal force by police; political paralysis and stagnation; an economy built on the scaffolding of debt; nihilistic mass shootings in schools, universities, workplaces, malls, concert venues and movie theaters; opioid overdoses that kill som 64,000 people a year; an epidemic of suicides; unsustainable military expansion; gambling as a desperate tool of economic development and government revenue; the capture of power by a tiny, corrupt clique; censorship; the physical diminishing of public institutions ranging from schools and libraries to courts and medical facilities; the incessant bombardment by electronic hallucinations to divert us from the depressing sight that has become America, and keep us trapped in illusions. We suffer the usual pathologies of impending death. I would be happy to be wrong. But I have seen this before. I know the warning signs. All I can say is—get ready.❞ —Chris Hedges

Anonymous said...

Where is the Preservation Community?

Preserve what? These aren't exactly beautiful classic buildings.

Anonymous said...

Luxury building next to the 7 train? What are you smoking? I like the cellar level community space, yes put the dancers in the basement that has no windows. Give them reduced rent for their non profit and you'll make out at tax time. They will be too scared to report the radon and mold because you could raise their rent and they'd have to get real jobs with the rest of us. 13 stories? Have they changed the flight plan from LaGuardia?

Just what Roosevelt Avenue and 62nd Street needs, more foot traffic. Next to be torn down will be that market across that street, former location of an Italian bakery.