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The resolution, which overwhelmingly passed Community Board 8, focuses on the zoning changes requested by the Blood Center in order to build its new headquarters: a glassy, 16-story tower on East 67th Street. (Courtesy of New York Blood Center/Longfellow Real Estate Partners)
UPPER EAST SIDE, NY Weeks of resistance to the New York Blood Center s proposal for a major expansion culminated Wednesday night in a vote by the neighborhood s community board to formally oppose the project.
The resolution, which overwhelmingly passed Community Board 8, focuses on the zoning changes requested by the Blood Center in order to build its new headquarters: a glassy, 16-story tower on East 67th Street between First and Second avenues.
Despite months of community opposition and numerous protests, the City Council last week gave the Special Flushing Waterfront District the green light, approving a plan that would rezone 29-acres of Downtown Flushing for luxury condominiums, hotels, offices, stores and a new road network.
But its adversaries are not giving up the fight yet.
âCity Council has allowed a massive takeover of 1,700+ luxury apartments and a privatized waterfront with vastly inadequate and unenforceable âconcessions,ââ MinKwon Center for Community Action, one of the leading protesters, said in a statement following the 39-5 vote.
The activist organization is continuing to pursue a June lawsuit challenging the proposalâs omission of an environmental impact statement, which they say should render it and its approval illegitimate. Rather than completing an EIS, the developers conducted a less thorough environmental assessment.