Project Description
The applicant, Bright Horizons Childrens Center, LLC, is seeking a zoning text amendment to modify the use provisions of the New York City Zoning Resolution (ZR) Section 117-03, Queens Plaza Subdistrict of the Special Long Island City Mixed Use District LIC District. The affected area includes: the southern blockfront of Queens Plaza South between Jackson Avenue and a line 100 feet east of 28th Street (Block 420, Lot 7501, the project site; and Block 420, Lot 1); and the northern and southern blockfronts of Queens Boulevard between Jackson Avenue and Sunnyside Yard (Block 263, Lots 1 and 9, and Block 239, Lots 6 and 7). The affected area is located in the Queens Plaza Subdistrict within the LIC District of Queens, Community Districts 1 and 2. The proposed action would facilitate a proposal by the applicant to operate an approximately 8,200 gross square foot (gsf) Use Group 3A community facility on a portion of the ground floor of a 21-story, approximately 544,000 gsf mixed-use building located at 1 Gotham Center, the project site. Should the action be adopted, ground floor uses allowed at the aforementioned blockfronts within the affected area will be consistent with ground floor uses allowed throughout the subdistrict.