GOING UP: A rendering shows the proposed 16-story high-rises on either side of the taller Tivoli Towers constructed nearby back in 1979.
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tional affordable units will be built by
affordable-housing developer Asian
Americans for Equality, to which Carmel
Partners agreed to give a roughly
1,000-square-foot parcel of land in exchange
for Cumbo blessing the upzoning
request as part of the city’s Universal
Land Use Review Procedure.
That land will be rolled into the dogood
developer’s existing project at
nearby 141 Montgomery St., which will
exclusively include affordable housing,
according to a spokesman for Asian
Americans for Equality, who said the
fi rm previously planned to construct
a building with 50 to 60 below-marketrate
units, but now can pack in a grand
total of 100.
Current zoning regulations only
allow buildings up to seven stories or
less, and a Carmel rep previously said
that, should the city block its rezoning
request, the builder would instead only
include luxury condos in its project.
The city instituted the seven-story
height limit back in 1991, as part of a
13-block downzoning of properties
near the Botanic Garden done largely
to protect the horticultural museum
and its then under-construction Steinhardt
Conservatory from the shadows
of large buildings.
But Cornell and Carmel’s towers
will not stand nearly as tall as the
28-story Tivoli Towers built on nearby
Crown Street back in 1979, and Botanic
Garden bigwigs did not come out
against the new high-rises — despite
their condemnation by green-space patrons
from across the world — instead
repeatedly citing a shadow study Cornell
conducted that showed the project
would not block too much sun from the
growing patch.
Cumbo’s vote to approve the rezoning
concluded Cornell and Carmel’s
ulurp process just as the public review
for another, much larger Botanic Garden–
adjacent development is about to
begin in her district.
Builder Continuum Company
wants to erect a six-building complex
with towers as high as 37 stories — featuring
some 1,450 units, half of which
will be market-rate — on Franklin
Avenue between Sullivan and Montgomery
Streets, which Botanic Garden
leaders already took a hard stance
against due to its size.
That land is also currently zoned
for towers no taller than seven stories,
and Cumbo again will ultimately cast
the key Council vote on a rezoning necessary
to build the complex and the
hundreds of below-market-rate units
included within it.
said no fountains arrived after workers
installed the fi rst new contraption
near Vanderbilt Playground ahead of
the Prospect Park Track Club’s Turkey
Trot run on Thanksgiving Day.
Alliance leaders blamed the delay
on bad weather, according to a rep, who
said there is not a set date for the three
remaining fountains’ arrival.
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