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Community Board 7 approved the Parks Department’s construction plans for a 1,250-square-foot center, that will be free to the public, on October 28. It is 400 square feet smaller than originally proposed, officials said, and will be located southeast to the historic BP OKs tiny lots sale BY MELISA CHAN mchan@queenscourier.com Borough President Helen Marshall approved the city’s plan to dispose of four vacant lots that are too small to develop. The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) wants to remove the properties from its inventory in order to sell in the future. Community Board 7 gave the department the green light last month. The tiny plots of land in Mitchell- Linden, Flushing, College Point and Whitestone were created erroneously, according to DCAS senior planner Christian Grove. Some are as small as a patch of grass in between homes, Grove said. The four properties were all acquired by the city for free, between 1955 and 1988, through the in-rem tax foreclosure process, according to a DCAS spokesperson. DCAS representatives said the department would offer each of the four plots to adjacent owners but did not plan to subdivide and sell in pieces. Marshall said “every effort should be made to contact” them. The borough president also followed suit with the community board in approving a second DCAS application to disown another property at 135-15 40th Road in Flushing. The department plans to dispose of the property to NYC Land Development Corp, an entity of the city’s Economic Development Corp, which will then sell the land to developer Success 88 for $1.5 million. Success 88’s $3.5 million project includes building a six-story building with commercial and office space and a community facility, which includes a school for English learners. Bowne House at Bowne Street and 38th Avenue in Flushing. “Essentially, our design intent is to work as gently on the property as possible, to build as small of a building as possible, to serve the needs of the Bowne House Historical Society,” said Julie Nymann, a Parks deputy director of architecture. The 1.5-story building will have a gallery, lobby, two restrooms, a small office and areas for mechanics and storage, Nymann said. Mostly school groups will use the center, she said. It has a wood-like look with American Cedar sliding barn doors and a musket-gray roof, said the Parks Department. Surrounding fences and some trees in poor health will be replaced during the project, Nymann said. Construction is expected to be completed in less than two years, according to a Parks spokesperson. The Landmarks Preservation Commission and the State Historic Preservation Office both need to approve the design, and the city’s Department of Buildings needs to issue a permit, before any work is done. This summer, officials broke ground on a $3.2 million project to restore the Bowne House, a 17th century symbol of religious freedom and one of the oldest structures in the city. The city-landmarked house will get a new roof, gutters, pipes, wood wall shingles and steel columns, among other exterior restorations. It was built in the 1660s by John Bowne and used for Quaker meetings when religious diversity was forbidden by law. The house is a “quintessential reminder of our nation’s religious history,” Nymann said. Photo Rendering by Parks Department Designs for the new Bowne House visitor center include wooden, sliding barn doors
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