Two Trees Development News Today

A Brooklyn development team was surprised to win City Council member Laurie Cumbo’s sign-off to replace a McDonald’s with apartments.

Photo illustration of Mayor Bill de Blasio (Getty, iStock) Within the next eight months, the de Blasio administration hopes to rezone two neighborhoods and upend hotel construction citywide. At the same time, more than four dozen private rezoning applications aim to win City Council support — or risk restarting negotiations with a new regime. Any election year would add urgency to the approval process for zoning changes, special permits and other types of applications, but this year the press...