CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS UNIQUE MULTIMEDIA SHOW
CARMINA BURANA BY CARL ORFF
Bolshoi Symphonic Orchestra of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Yurlov Capella Choir, Soloists
of Bolshoi Theater, Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig (UK), Director Igor Ushakov (Bolshoi Theatre Russia)
December 29TH 8PM
Bolshoi Theater soloists Anna Aglatova, Stanislav Mostovoy, and Vasiliy Laduk sing with Yurlov Capella Choir and
Bolshoi Symphonic Orchestra of Moscow Conservatory. Inspired by Medieval poetry, Carl Orff wrote his cantata Carmina
Burana. To emphasize the power of this work and its philosophical and emotional meaning, the music will be accompanied
by visual effects, including laser projections of art masterpieces housed in Russian museums from the Middle Ages.
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BY COLIN MIXSON
They want this developer to
get in their zone!
Crown Heights civic gurus
panned a developer’s request
to rezone a Pacifi c Street lot
located in a historically industrial
part of the neighborhood,
even as the local leaders
hope the city will sign off on
their own upzoning proposal
to bring taller buildings to the
same area.
But the rezoning sought by
Avo Construction to erect an
11-story building with commercial
and residential space,
including 39 below-marketrate
rentals, would result in
a tower that members of Community
Board 8’s Land Use
Committee said is too large
for the plot, which they previously
asked offi cials to upzone
— but only to allow structures
of up to eight stories.
“If the board took a position
and blessed a proposal
that varied signifi cantly from
what it has already put forward
as a zoning request,
other folks would look at it and
say, ‘They’re not really serious
about it,’ ” said seven-year
panel member Gib Veconi,
who serves on the group’s
Land Use Committee, which
voted down Avo’s upzoning request
at a Dec. 6 meeting.
The proposed high-rise at
1010 Pacifi c St. between Grand
and Classon avenues is located
within a roughly six-squareblock
area bounded by Atlantic
Avenue, Bergen Street,
Grand Avenue, and Franklin
Avenue, where construction
is crippled by zoning laws that
only permit low-rise manufacturing
buildings, according to
CB8 members, who claimed
the regulations “make new development
nearly impossible”
in a letter requesting to upzone
the area that they sent to
the Department of City Planning
in August.
But the board’s rezoning
proposal — which the cityplanning
agency is currently
reviewing, and recommends
height limits that vary by
street — dates back to 2014,
when members began brainstorming
ideas to revitalize
the area they said is plagued
by vacant lots and the vice
those attract, according to the
chairwoman of CB8’s Land
Use Committee.
“Right now it’s vacant lots,
truck parking, junk yards,
and at night it’s a nightmare,”
said Ethel Tyus.
The panel fi rst fl oated its
rezoning scheme to agency offi
cials in 2015, claiming developers
of the bigger buildings it
would allow could be required
to include below-market-rate
housing and ground-fl oor
commercial spaces for lightindustrial
use, Tyus said.
But the 1010 Pacifi c St. development’s
ground-fl oor industrial
space is too small, in
addition to its overall size being
too big for the area, according
to Veconi, who said his
panel colleagues will likely be
reluctant to approve upzoning
requests for any projects that
do not fall within the parameters
of the board’s long sought
after rezoning.
“When you consider the
board has put forward a vision
to maximize job potential
in that area, it makes sense
they’d like to see the applicant
embrace that vision,” he said.
A rezoning request submitted
by the builder of another
mixed-used development at
nearby at 1050 Pacifi c St., however,
earned CB8 Land Use
Committee’s endorsement at
the recent meeting, due to the
complex’s much larger streetlevel
industrial space and
shorter height of eight stories,
both of which Veconi said are
in line with recommendations
made in the board’s upzoning
proposal still under review by
the city.
“It’s close enough to the
board’s vision,” he said.
The Land Use Committee’s
recommendations on each
project are purely advisory,
and come before an expected
full board vote on each rezoning
request at CB8’s meeting
on Dec. 13, which is also advisory.
TOO BIG: Community Board 8’s Land Use Committee shot down a developer’s
rezoning request necessary to build this 11-story building at 1010
Pacifi c St. Community Board 8
Zoning out
Civic gurus pan upzoning request
for new Crown Heights complex