30 MARCH 23, 2017 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM Fight against proposed 5-story Ridgewood apt. building rages on Ridgewood Times Sales Guide Listings selected at random. Courtesy MLSLI RIDGEWOOD Woodbine Street 57th Street 69th Street 80th Street Under $500,000 1980 Starr St. $450,000 Condo 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Antoinette Caruso Realty Connect USA $500,000-900,000 59-24 Woodbine St. $890,000 1-family home 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms Joseph Fabrizio Top Realty Over $900,000 1930 Grove St. $1,499,999 6-family townhouse 12 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms Raj Pardal Keller Williams Realty Liberty GLENDALE Under $600,000 80-17 57th St. $524,900 1-family Colonial 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom John Dibs Keller Williams Realty Liberty $600,000-900,000 78-31 65th St. $693,500 2-family Colonial 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Mitchell Todd Carollo Realty & Management Over $900,000 64-18 Myrtle Ave. $1,349,999 Mixed-use building 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms Joseph Bruno Realty Central MASPETH Under $500,000 57-15 69th Ln. $369,000 Condo 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom Joseph Abramaitis O’Kane Realty $500,000-900,000 57-17 65th St. $880,000 2-family home 5 bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms Donna Rivello O’Kane Realty Over $900,000 53-11 69th St. $1,388,000 2-family Colonial 6 bedrooms, 5 ½ bathrooms Patrick Pernod Pernod Real Estate MIDDLE VILLAGE Under $500,000 66-83 70th St. $479,000 Condo 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Florin Spariosu Sparrow Realtors $500,000-900,000 78-27 68th Rd. $680,000 1-family home 4 bedrooms, 1 full-bath, 2 half-baths Agnieszka Pikulinska Marko Polo Realty Group Over $900,000 65-22 80th St. $1,050,000 2-family Colonial 6 bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms Sean Donohue RE/MAX Team BY ANTHONY GIUDICE AGIUDICE@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM @A_GIUDICEREPORT One local lawmaker is continuing the fight against developers who want to transform a former electrician’s offi ce in Ridgewood into a fi ve-story apartment building. Since December 2016, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan — along with Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Assemblyman Mike Miller and state Senators Michael Gianaris and Joe Addabbo — have worked to stop this conversion at 455 Onderdonk Ave., which they believe is out of character with the surrounding buildings and neighborhood. According to the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB), plans were fi led on Dec. 14, 2016, to create a fi ve-story, 15-unit apartment building which will include a nine-car on-site parking garage. Elected offi cials promptly wrote a joint letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio outlining their opposition to the proposed building later that month. In February, Nolan and the rest of the elected offi cials received a letter from Patrick Wehle, assistant commissioner of external affairs with the DOB, stating that since the area is located in an R6B Zone, the proposed use is permitted as of right within the zoning district. However, the project’s plans are currently in disapproved status because of DOB objections, but if all objections are satisfactorily changed, DOB “has no grounds to not approve the job and issue permits,” Wehle said. According to the DOB, the plan’s permit application was incomplete at the time of the scheduled plan exam. Nolan has also asked Community Board 5 (CB 5) as well as the chair of the NYC Department of City Planning, Maria Lago, to examine the zoning in the area. “I ask that NYC Planning and the Community Board work together to come up with a better zoning plan so that large buildings like this cannot be built as of right in this section of Ridgewood,” Nolan said in a statement to the Ridgewood Times on March 17. “The community’s character and local review must be taken into consideration before a development like this is allowed to be built.” REAL ESTATE Photo courtesy of PropertyShark Elected offi cials are hoping the city reexamines a proposal to create a fi ve-story apartment building in Ridgewood.
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