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Harlem Transportation Study
3.0 LAND USE AND ZONING Zoning The city is divided into three basic zoning districts: residential (R), commercial (C), and manufacturing (M). The three basic categories are further subdivided into lower, medium, and higher density residential, commercial and manufacturing districts. Development within these districts is regulated by use, building size, and parking regulations. Here is a brief description of the three basic zoning districts according to the Zoning Handbook: Residential District (R) In New York City, there are ten standard residential districts, R1 through R10. The numbers refer to the permitted density (R1 having the lowest density and R10 the highest) and other controls such as required parking. A second letter or number signifies additional controls are required in certain districts. R1 and R2 districts allow only detached single-family residences and certain community facilities. The R3-2 through R10 districts accept all types of dwelling units and community facilities and are distinguished by differing bulk and density, height and setback, parking, and lot coverage or open space requirements. Commercial District (C) The commercial districts reflect the full range of commercial activity in the city from local retail and service establishmentsDRAFT to high density, shopping, entertainment and office uses. There are eight basic commercial districts where two (C1 and C2 districts) are designed to serve local needs, one district (C4) is for shopping centers outside the central business district, two (C5 and C6 districts) are for the central business districts which embrace the office, retail, and commercial functions that serve the city and region, and three (C3, C7, and C8 districts) are designed for special purposes (waterfront activity, large commercial amusement parks and heavy repair services). -
Maryland Through 2011
1 LIHTC Properties in Maryland through 2011 Annual Low Rent or Tax- Zip Nonprofit Allocation Allocated Year Placed Total Income Income Exempt Project Name Address City State Code Sponsor Year Amount in Service Construction Type Units Units Ceiling Credit Percentage Bond 2323 Maryland Llc 2323 Maryland Ave Baltimore MD 21218 No 1993 1995 Acquisition And Rehab 11 11 60% AMGI Both 30% and 70% No 9 South Chapel Street 9 S Chapel St Baltimore MD 21231 Yes 1994 1996 Acquisition And Rehab 1 1 60% AMGI Both 30% and 70% No Admiral Oaks Apts. 445 Captains Cir Ste C Annapolis MD 21401 No 1990$ 1,386,987 2010 Acquisition And Rehab 159 159 60% AMGI 70 % present value No Affinity Old Post Apartments 101 Hanover St Aberdeen MD 21001 Not Indicated 177 177 60% AMGI Not Indicated Ahepa Senior Apartments 1351 S Clinton St Baltimore MD 21224 Yes 2001 2002 New Construction 57 56 50% AMGI 70 % present value No Aigburth Vale Senior Commnity 212 Aigburth Rd Towson MD 21286 No 1999 2000 Acquisition And Rehab 70 70 60% AMGI 70 % present value No Airpark Apartments 8511 Snouffer School Rd Gaithersburg MD 20879 No 2003$ 462,627 2006 New Construction 106 106 30 % present value Yes Airpark Apts 8511 Snouffer School Rd Gaithersburg MD 20879 No 2003 2005 New Construction 106 106 30 % present value Yes Albemarle Square 120 S Central Ave Baltimore MD 21202 Not Indicated 124 124 50% AMGI Not Indicated Albemarle Square Ii 120 S Central Ave Baltimore MD 21202 Not Indicated 58 58 50% AMGI Not Indicated Alcott Place 2702 Keyworth Ave Baltimore MD 21215 1989 1990 Not Indicated -
***4;.6 I1A Accepted by Professor Alan Berger Chair, MCP Committee Department of Urban Studies and Planning
The Guerrilla in the Garden By ARCHIVES ASSACHUSETTS INSTITE Merran Swartwood TECHNOLOGY BA in Anthropology 2012 Columbia University New York, NY (2003) Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in City Planning at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY September 2012 C 2012 Merran Swartwood. All Rights Reserved The author here by grants to MIT the permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of the thesis document in whole or in part in any medium now known or hereafter created. IA I-, I Author / Department of Urban Studies and Planning August 31, 2012 Certified by Professor Anne Whiston Spirn Department of Urban Studies and Planning Thesis Supervisor /,***4;.6 I1A Accepted by Professor Alan Berger Chair, MCP Committee Department of Urban Studies and Planning The Guerrilla in the Garden By Merran Swartwood Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning on August 31, 2012 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in City Planning Abstract Guerrilla gardening is the practice of illicitly cultivating land that does not belong to the gardener. In New York City, it emerged in the context of disinvestment and urban renewal in the 1970s as a means to clean up vacant lots, improve safety, and build social networks within neighborhoods. This study examines contemporary guerrilla gardening projects in New York and addresses the questions of whether guerrilla gardening today can still offer advantages over gardening with permission, and if there are situations in which it makes more sense to garden without permission, versus the alternate position that gardeners should always seek permission to use the land they cultivate in order to protect their interests and investment. -
COMMUNITY TASK FORCE on NYU DEVELOPMENT Findings and Recommendations
COMMUNITY TASK FORCE ON NYU DEVELOPMENT Findings and Recommendations March 2010 Office of the Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TASK FORCE ON NYU DEVELOPMENT Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, Chair New York University Congressman Jerrold Nadler Councilmember Margaret Chin Councilmember Rosie Mendez Councilmember Christine Quinn State Senator Thomas K. Duane State Senator Daniel Squadron State Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick State Assemblymember Brian P. Kavanagh Manhattan Community Board 1 Manhattan Community Board 2 Manhattan Community Board 3 Manhattan Community Board 4 Manhattan Community Board 6 American Institute of Architects Bleecker Area Merchants and Residents Association Carmine Street Block Association Coalition to Save the East Village East Washington Square Block Association Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation LaGuardia Community Gardens Lucille Lortel Foundation Mercer Street Association Mercer-Houston Street Dog Run Municipal Arts Society NoHomanhattan.org Public School PAC SoHo Alliance Washington Square Village Tenant Association 77 Bleecker Street Tenant Association 505 LaGuardia Place Tenant Association Community Task Force on NYU Development Findings and Recommendations - March 2010 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Between November 2006 and March 2010 the Community Task Force on NYU Development met over 50 times in the Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer. As Chair of the Task Force, the Borough President wishes to thank all of those who have participated in these discussions over the years. Without the hard work, dedication and energy of these community advocates who volunteered their time, this document would not have been possible. The Borough President would also like to thank his dedicated staff who helped edit and publish this report. -
How Our Gardens Grow: Strategies for Expanding Urban
HOW OUR GARDENS GrowSTRATEGIES FOR EXPANDING URBAN AGRICULTURE Gale A. Brewer MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Think of farming and agriculture and you are unlikely to visualize the Manhattan skyline. Yet thriving in the back lots, on the rooftops, and in the community centers and the schoolrooms of this dense urban environment are more than 170 community gardens plus a vast array of food-producing hydroponics labs, greenhouses, and urban farms. The benefits of urban farming and agriculture are many and well documented: residents gain a local source of fresh fruits and vegetables, healthier eating habits, and educational opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Urban gardening is also good for the community, the economy, and the environment. The Manhattan Borough President’s Office (MBPO) is committed to supporting food-producing gardens and promoting new ideas for urban farming that can be shared across New York City. To learn more about food-producing gardening at Manhattan’s public schools and community centers—the best practices that have allowed these programs to thrive and the challenges that may be limiting their efficacy and development—we undertook a survey of urban farming sites at schools and community centers across Manhattan and compiled our findings into this report. The primary challenge in Manhattan is the intertwined issues of limited space and expensive land, but we also discovered that lack of funding to pursue alternative garden sites, lack of personnel resources, and lack of school time create obstacles that prevent more innovative gardens from sprouting up. Our recommendations for sustaining and boosting urban agricultural programs include increasing city government support, integrating gardening into school curricula and community center programs, reducing garden startup and maintenance costs, creating an urban agriculture network, establishing a citywide training program, and extending school gardening programs in the summer. -
City-Owned Properties Based on Suitability of City-Owned and Leased Property for Urban Agriculture (LL 48 of 2011)
City-Owned Properties Based on Suitability of City-Owned and Leased Property for Urban Agriculture (LL 48 of 2011) Borou Block Lot Address Parcel Name gh 1 2 1 4 SOUTH STREET SI FERRY TERMINAL 1 2 2 10 SOUTH STREET BATTERY MARITIME BLDG 1 2 3 MARGINAL STREET MTA SUBSTATION 1 2 23 1 PIER 6 PIER 6 1 3 1 10 BATTERY PARK BATTERY PARK 1 3 2 PETER MINUIT PLAZA PETER MINUIT PLAZA/BATTERY PK 1 3 3 PETER MINUIT PLAZA PETER MINUIT PLAZA/BATTERY PK 1 6 1 24 SOUTH STREET VIETNAM VETERANS PLAZA 1 10 14 33 WHITEHALL STREET 1 12 28 WHITEHALL STREET BOWLING GREEN PARK 1 16 1 22 BATTERY PLACE PIER A / MARINE UNIT #1 1 16 3 401 SOUTH END AVENUE BATTERY PARK CITY STREETS 1 16 12 MARGINAL STREET BATTERY PARK CITY Page 1 of 1390 09/28/2021 City-Owned Properties Based on Suitability of City-Owned and Leased Property for Urban Agriculture (LL 48 of 2011) Agency Current Uses Number Structures DOT;DSBS FERRY TERMINAL;NO 2 USE;WATERFRONT PROPERTY DSBS IN USE-TENANTED;LONG-TERM 1 AGREEMENT;WATERFRONT PROPERTY DSBS NO USE-NON RES STRC;TRANSIT 1 SUBSTATION DSBS IN USE-TENANTED;FINAL COMMITMNT- 1 DISP;LONG-TERM AGREEMENT;NO USE;FINAL COMMITMNT-DISP PARKS PARK 6 PARKS PARK 3 PARKS PARK 3 PARKS PARK 0 SANIT OFFICE 1 PARKS PARK 0 DSBS FERRY TERMINAL;IN USE- 1 TENANTED;FINAL COMMITMNT- DISP;LONG-TERM AGREEMENT;NO USE;WATERFRONT PROPERTY DOT PARK;ROAD/HIGHWAY 10 PARKS IN USE-TENANTED;SHORT-TERM 0 Page 2 of 1390 09/28/2021 City-Owned Properties Based on Suitability of City-Owned and Leased Property for Urban Agriculture (LL 48 of 2011) Land Use Category Postcode Police Prct -
Mr. Lincoln's Tunnel
PDHonline Course C750 (4 PDH) Mr. Lincoln’s Tunnel Instructor: J.M. Syken 2014 PDH Online | PDH Center 5272 Meadow Estates Drive Fairfax, VA 22030-6658 Phone & Fax: 703-988-0088 www.PDHonline.org www.PDHcenter.com An Approved Continuing Education Provider Mr. Lincoln’s Tunnel 1 Table of Contents Slide/s Part Description 1 N/A Title 2 N/A Table of Contents 3~19 1 Midtown-Hudson Tunnel 20-50 2 Weehawken or Bust 51~89 3 The Road More Traveled 90~128 4 On the Jersey Side 129~162 5 Similar, But Different 163~178 6 Third Tube 179~200 7 Planning for the Future 2 Part 1 Midtown-Hudson Tunnel 3 Namesake 4 In 1912, there were very few good roads in the United States. The relatively few miles of improved road were around towns and cities (a road was “improved” if it was graded). That year, Carl Fisher (developer of Miami Beach and the Indianapolis Speedway, among other things) conceived a trans-continental highway. He called it the “Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway.” It would be finished in time for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition and would run from the exposition’s host city; San Francisco, to New York City. Two auto industry tycoons played major roles in the highway’s development: Frank Seiberling - president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., and Henry Joy - president of the Packard Motor Car Company. It was Henry Joy who came up with the idea of naming the highway after POTUS Abraham Lincoln. On July 1st 1913, the Lincoln Highway Association was officially incorporated. -
Street Festivals Are Community Sponsored Events Requiring a Street Closure of One Or More Blocks for One Or More Days
Street Festivals are community sponsored events requiring a street closure of one or more blocks for one or more days. These events offer the general public opportunities to purchase food, goods or services from licensed vendors. Please review the list of tentatively scheduled Street Festivals through December 2019 as it may affect your area. These events, locations and approval status are subject to change. If you have any questions regarding this notice, please feel free to contact us at 212-788-0025 or [email protected]. 1 Bronx Event Name Start Date End Date Location Stadium Street Fair 5/18/2019 5/18/2019 RIVER AVENUE between 161ST STREET and 158TH 10:00 18:00 STREET Bronx Week Food and Arts 5/19/2019 5/19/2019 MOSHOLU PARKWAY between BAINBRIDGE Festival 10:00 18:00 AVENUE and VAN CORTLANDT AVENUE EAST Throgs Neck Little League Summer 5/23/2019 5/26/2019 THROGS NECK BOULEVARD between HARDING Festival 17:00 17:00 AVENUE and SCHURZ AVE The South Bronx Indigenous 6/1/2019 6/1/2019 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD between EAST 163 Festival: A Celebration of 10:00 18:00 STREET and ALDUS STREET Traditional Contemporary Native Performing A Bronx YMCA Street Fair 6/1/2019 6/1/2019 CASTLE HILL AVENUE between BARRETT AVENUE 10:00 18:00 and HART STREET 161st Street Friday Festival 6/7/2019 6/7/2019 EAST 161 STREET between GRAND CONCOURSE 10:00 18:00 and WALTON AVENUE Feast of St. Anthony 6/12/2019 6/16/2019 EAST 187 STREET between ARTHUR AVENUE and 17:00 22:00 CAMBRELENG AVENUE, CRESCENT AVENUE between BELMONT AVENUE and CAMBRELENG AVENUE, EAST 187 STREET between CAMBRELENG AVENUE and BEAUMONT AVENUE 11th Annual Fair @ the Square 6/15/2019 6/15/2019 LANE AVENUE between WESTCHESTER AVENUE 10:00 18:00 and BENSON STREET Fair @ the Square 6/15/2019 6/15/2019 EAST TREMONT AVENUE between FRISBY AVENUE 10:00 18:00 and ST RAYMOND AVENUE Annual St. -
East Harlem, Manhattan (September 2016)
PLACE-BASED COMMUNITY BROWNFIELD PLANNING FOUNDATION REPORT ON EXISTING CONDITIONS EAST HARLEM, MANHATTAN FINAL SEPTEMBER 2016 BILL deBLASIO MAYOR DANIEL C. WALSH, Ph.D. DIRECTOR Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation This document was prepared by the New York City Department of City Planning for the New York City Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation and the New York State Department of State with state funds provided through the Brownfield Opportunity Areas Program. CONTENTS PURPOSE 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 PART ONE Geography and Land Use 10 Demographic and Economic Profile 28 Recent Public Initiatives and Private Investments 35 PART TWO Environmental Conditions 41 Potential Strategic Sites 43 KEY FINDINGS AND NEXT STEPS 57 APPENDIX 58 PURPOSE This existing conditions foundation report was commissioned by the New York City Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation (OER) to help community members and community-based organizations (CBO’s) conduct place-based planning for revitalization of vacant and underutilized brownfield properties. Place- based planning by community groups is supported by OER under the NYC Place-Based Community Brownfield Planning Program and by the New York State Department of State in the Brownfield Opportunity Area Program. To advance implementation of plans, OER provides financial and technical assistance to CBO’s for cleanup and redevelopment of brownfield properties and seeks to help people foster greater health and well-being in their neighborhoods. Brownfields are vacant or underutilized properties where environmental pollution has deterred investment and redevelopment. Pollution introduces many risks to land development and often causes community and private developers to pass over these properties, especially in low-income neighborhoods where land values may be depressed and insufficient to cover added cleanup costs. -
Download Ordinance
Somerville Historic Districts 12/31/2014 Local Year State National Address Street Register Approved Register Register 12 Adams Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 15 Adams Street Yes 1989 Yes Yes 55-63 Adams Street No - Yes Yes 37 Albion Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 6 Aldersey Street Yes 2003 Yes No 8 Aldersey Street Yes 2003 Yes No 12 Aldersey Street Yes 2003 Yes No 14 Aldersey Street Yes 2003 Yes No 16 Aldersey Street Yes 2003 Yes No 18 Aldersey Street Yes 2003 Yes No 9-11 Aldersey Street Yes 2003 Yes No 17-19A Aldersey Street Yes 2003 Yes Yes 1 Arlington Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 10 Arlington Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 36 Atherton Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 40 Atherton Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 47 Atherton Street No - Yes Yes 48 Atherton Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 53 Atherton Street Yes 2010 Yes Yes 54 Atherton Street No - Yes Yes 58 Atherton Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 60 Atherton Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 61 Atherton Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 25-35 Atherton Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 44-46 Atherton Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 55-57 Atherton Street No - Yes Yes 65-67 Atherton Street No - Yes Yes 28 Beacon Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 30 Beacon Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 32 Beacon Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 33 Beacon Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 34 Beacon Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 36 Beacon Street Yes 1985 Yes Yes 245 Beacon Street Yes 1989 Yes Yes 2 Benton Road No - Yes Yes 3 Benton Road No - Yes Yes 12 Benton Road Yes 1985 Yes Yes 18 Benton Road Yes 1985 Yes Yes 81 Benton Road Yes 1985 Yes Yes 85 Benton Road Yes 1985 Yes Yes 2 Bigelow Street Yes 1989 Yes Yes 17 Bonner Avenue Yes 1989 Yes No -
Local Law 52 of 2011: Food Metrics for New York City
Local Law 52 of 2011: Food Metrics for New York City Food is intimately associated with public health as well as economic and community development. PlaNYC Food-Related Initiatives While our food system is influenced by many private Housing & Neighborhoods sector actions as well as individual choices and pref- Promote walkable destinations for retail and other erences, municipal food policy plays a critical role in services, including healthy food options in underserved improving our food environment and strengthening communities our food infrastructure. The City’s food policy aims Parks & Public Space to promote access to healthy foods for all New York- Facilitate urban agriculture and community gardening ers and to improve the sustainability of our food system. Water Supply Continue the watershed protection program, which In pursuit of this objective, the City has worked to de- includes our partnership with the Watershed Agricultural velop a broad array of food related initiatives rang- Council to promote sustainable farming techniques in ing from the trans fat restriction to increasing urban the region agriculture to working with community based orga- Transportation nizations that facilitate food stamp enrollment. The Launch a study of New York City’s food distribution City has been a leader in advancing public health pathways to improve freight movement through food policy— taking steps from requir- Solid Waste ing calorie labeling to developing model programs Create additional opportunities to recover organic which address disparities in retail access to healthy material, including food waste foods— while also incorporating often overlapping environmental and economic goals into its food Source: PlaNYC Update, April 2011, pages 164-165. -
WINDOWS on the BOWERY the Bowery Is NYC’S Oldest Thoroughfare
In 1973, artist Liz Christy and her band of volunteers transformed a vacant lot at this site to create the Bowery-Houston Community Farm and Garden. Her Green Guerillas cleared garbage, built soil from police-stable manure, and planted trees, flowers, and vegetables. AT More than 600 community gardens now grace New York City neighborhoods. Generations of volunteer gardeners have enhanced the design, recruited members, and opened this garden to the public weekends and some evenings. In 2004, the garden faced an existential threat from the development of surrounding lots by AvalonBay. Thanks to action from garden members, the community, city officials and the Parks Department, the garden not only survived but was expanded to Second Avenue. The Liz Christy Garden is famous worldwide for its beauty as well as its unlikely formation. With its dedicated, all-volunteer membership, it continues to prosper even as the neighborhood changes. Garden volunteers at beginnings, Spring 1974 Top left: Dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, planted in 1975 Top right: In 2005, demolition of Church of All Nations came within inches of the garden FIRST NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY GARDEN LIZ CHRISTY GARDEN WINDOWS ON THE BOWERY The Bowery is NYC’s oldest thoroughfare. Originally a Native American footpath and Dutch farm road (bouwerij means farm), it is a cradle of American culture, with seminal links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Lincoln, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, tattoo art, Abstract Expressionism, Beat literature, jazz and punk rock. Though listed on the National Register of Historic Places, out-of-scale developments are displacing its residents, small businesses, and historic character.