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Eleven land use items. One Wednesday session. From the Williamsburg waterfront to a 47-property parkland grab in Queens, the City Planning Commission’s June 3 calendar reshapes four boroughs at once.

By Howard Weiss | June 2, 2026 | NYC In Focus · Accredited Press

The NYC City Planning Commission will hear eleven major land use applications in a single session tomorrow morning — a calendar that touches four boroughs and ranges from a Williamsburg waterfront rezoning to the city’s acquisition of 47 separate Queens properties for new parkland.

Official public notices reviewed by NYC In Focus show the Commission convenes at 10:00 A.M. Wednesday, June 3, at 120 Broadway, Lower Concourse, in Manhattan. The session is open to the public in person and on Zoom, and the agenda is heavy.

Here’s what’s actually on the table.

200 Kent Avenue: The Williamsburg Waterfront Rezoning

The headline Brooklyn item is the 200 Kent Avenue rezoning in Williamsburg, Community District 1, filed by 206 Kent LLC and Kent Investor LLC. The application would rezone the block bounded by River Street, North 3rd Street, Kent Avenue, and Metropolitan Avenue — changing it from an M1-4 manufacturing district to an M1-4A/R7X district and establishing a Special Mixed Use District (MX-8).

A companion application adds the project area to Appendix F of the Zoning Resolution, designating it a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing area. That means any new residential development on the site would be required to include permanently affordable units under MIH rules.

This is the kind of manufacturing-to-mixed-use conversion that has reshaped the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront over the last two decades, parcel by parcel. Another block, another rezoning.

The Queens “Walk to Park” Acquisition: 47 Properties at Once

The most sweeping item on the calendar is in Queens. The Department of Citywide Administrative Services and the Department of Parks and Recreation are seeking site selection and acquisition of 47 separate properties across Community District 2 — Long Island City, Sunnyside, and Woodside — for park use.

The properties are scattered across the district: lots on 47th Avenue, 24th Street, Skillman Avenue, Northern Boulevard, Queens Boulevard, Broadway, Van Dam Street, and more than three dozen other locations. The application falls under the city’s “Walk to a Park” initiative, which aims to put a park within a 10-minute walk of every New Yorker.

Acquiring 47 properties in a single ULURP action is unusual in its scale. For a dense, park-starved district like western Queens, it’s significant — and worth watching for which specific lots the city ultimately takes.

St. Augustine’s: A 21-Story Tower on the Lower East Side

In Manhattan, the Commission will hear the St. Augustine’s Preservation and Redevelopment application at 290 Henry Street in Community District 3. Filed by the Church of St. Augustine’s Parish together with August330Madison Partners LLC, the application seeks a special permit under Zoning Resolution Section 74-711 to modify height, setback, rear yard, and side yard requirements.

The goal: facilitate a 21-story mixed-use building on the Lower East Side, with the special permit mechanism tied to preservation of the landmark church. A historic religious institution leveraging its air rights and a development partner to fund its own preservation — a familiar NYC pattern, executed at scale here.

The Rest of the Calendar

The remaining items span the boroughs:

Flatiron/NoMad Major Concession (Manhattan, CD5) — NYC DOT seeks to expand the existing Flatiron District pedestrian concession area along Broadway and Fifth Avenue between East 19th and West 31st Streets. This governs the public plazas and pedestrian spaces that have remade the Flatiron streetscape.

Atlantic Avenue Demapping (Queens, CD12) — City Planning’s own application to eliminate, narrow, and realign a stretch of Atlantic Avenue near the Queens-Brooklyn line, plus the closing of Sanders Place and a portion of 150th Street.

189-10 Northern Boulevard and 47-03 108th Street Rezonings (Queens) — two separate residential rezonings, in Auburndale (CD11) and Corona (CD4), both adding density along commercial corridors. The 47-03 108th Street application includes a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing designation.

Staten Island Family Court Consolidation (CD1) — DCAS and the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice seek site selection at 55 Stuyvesant Place and 10 Hamilton Avenue for consolidated court facilities.

336 Meredith Avenue Fleet Facility (Staten Island, CD2) — DCAS and Parks seek to acquire the Bloomfield-area property for a fleet operations facility.

Tonight: The Brooklyn Borough Board Votes on Coney West and Lefferts House

Before the Planning Commission convenes, the Brooklyn Borough Board meets tonight — Tuesday, June 2 at 6:00 P.M. at Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street — on two consequential Brooklyn items.

The first: the Coney West Parcel A development. NYC Economic Development Corporation has selected Rybak Development to build approximately 550 housing units (25% affordable) and at least 160 public parking spaces on the Coney Island waterfront. EDC will present the business terms to the Borough Board under the 384(b)(4) process.

The second: the Prospect Park Alliance’s proposal at the Lefferts Historic House Museum to create large-scale outdoor exhibits permanently inscribing the previously overlooked histories of the Lenape and African peoples into the Prospect Park landscape. Accessible paths, benches, and vistas designed to make the site, in the Alliance’s words, a place to pause, learn, remember, and heal.

Written testimony on both items must reach testimony@brooklynbp.nyc.gov by Friday, June 5.

The Sanitation Hiring Wave Rolls Past 1,000

The city’s mass hiring of sanitation workers continues in today’s personnel records. Today’s batch runs alphabetically from Moorer through Phillip — names in the M, N, O, and P range — all appointed at the Title 9140A rate of $30.00 an hour, all effective February 22, 2026.

Combined with the earlier published batches (which ran A through Belmont, then F through H), the cumulative single-day hiring is now well past 1,000 newly appointed sanitation workers. It remains the largest single-day public hiring action by any NYC agency in recent memory, and it tracks the rollout of citywide curbside composting and the on-street container program.

Also in Today’s Records

$54.75 million to rebuild the Harper Street asphalt plant. The Department of Design and Construction awarded the reconstruction of the Queens asphalt plant to Iannelli Construction Co. Inc. of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn — one of the larger single construction awards in recent filings.

$62.5 million for Manhattan stabilization beds. The Department of Homeless Services is seeking comment on a contract with Goddard Riverside Community Center for stabilization beds for single adults in Manhattan, running through 2030 with a renewal option to 2034.

$29.2 million for citywide domestic violence shelter. The Human Resources Administration is seeking comment on a five-year emergency shelter contract with Freedom House for People with Disabilities, based in the South Bronx, for the Domestic Violence Services Program.

The NYC Sheriff is destroying seized flavored vapes and untaxed tobacco from hundreds of stores. The NYPD published a multi-page forfeiture-and-destruction notice covering hundreds of bodegas, smoke shops, and delis across all five boroughs caught selling unauthorized flavored e-cigarettes and untaxed tobacco. It’s one of the largest such enforcement notices published in a single edition.

Mamdani extends the Rikers state of emergency again. The Mayor signed three more five-day extensions of the Department of Correction emergency order first declared in 2021, continuing the suspension of various laws and regulations while a compliance plan is developed.

Why It Matters

Eleven land use items in one Planning Commission session is a lot of the city’s future getting decided in a single morning. The Williamsburg rezoning adds to two decades of waterfront conversion. The Queens parkland acquisition could green one of the most park-starved districts in the city — or get whittled down lot by lot. The St. Augustine’s tower shows how landmark preservation and high-rise development keep getting financially welded together on the Lower East Side.

None of it is final tomorrow. The Planning Commission hearing is the public-input phase before the Commission votes and the applications move to the City Council. Anyone who wants a say — for or against — can show up at 120 Broadway or submit written comment through the CPC Comments form.

The hearings are public. The records are public. Showing up is the whole game.

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