DEVELOPING
Prospect Heights locals cry foul
BY BEN VERDE
Prospect Heights community
board members pushed
back against a developer’s
plans to construct a residential
building housing 316
apartments — roughly 95 of
which would be below-market
rate — because, they
claim, the neighborhood is
“swimming in density.”
“There is no reason to add
density to a neighborhood
like Prospect Heights that is
absolutely swimming in density,”
said Elaine Weinstein
during a March 4 meeting of
Community Board 8’s land
use committee. “We cannot
walk on our streets anymore.
The amount of traffic,
garbage, is uncontrollable,
and therefore it seems unrealistic
to build this building
as large, as high, as dense as
you are proposing.”
The lot at the corner of
Vanderbilt and Atlantic avenues
currently features
a drive-through McDonald’s,
but developer Vanderbilt
Atlantic Holdings
wants a rezoning to allow
them to build their proposed
18-story apartment building
— which provoked outrage
from board members
because of its height and potential
to increase the neighborhood’s
population.
Contrary to the locals’
claims of abnormal density
in the neighborhood, however,
Prospect Heights features
around 83.6 people
per acre of land, making it
just 67.5 percent as dense as
neighboring Crown Heights,
and comparably dense to
nearby Park Slope.
In fact, much of the density
that does exist in the
area comes from the Pacific
Park megadevelopment,
an in-progress multi-tower
mixed-use project that includes
the Barclays Center
and several towers near the
heavily commercial Atlantic
Center. The rest of the
The lot is currently home to a suburban-style drive-through McDonald’s.
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