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Community members voice concerns over proposed rezoning, say it would ruin Brooklyn Botanic Garden News 12 Staff Updated on: Jul 28, 2021, 9:56pm Community members gathered at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Wednesday to voice their opposition to a project that they say would ruin the garden. Community members say that if a rezoning proposal is approved, it would be extremely hurtful to the community and all the plant species that live there.  The Fight for Sunlight campaign has been speaking out since the developer unveiled the project.  Nearly 60,000 residents have signed the position reje...

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Ian Bruce Eichner and 960 Franklin Avenue. (Google Maps, Getty) Two rezonings, held up by the same judge for similar reasons, can now both move forward. But in one case, a developer will need to figure out the logistics of holding an outdoor hearing. Brooklyn Judge Katherine Levine on Thursday lifted her temporary restraining order blocking the rezoning of a former spice factory at 960 Franklin Avenue, where Ian Bruce Eichner’s Continuum Company wants to build two 30-plus story rental towers. The move allows the controversial project to advance on the condition that the developer works with...

A court has lifted a Temporary Restraining Order against developer Bruce Eichner’s planned twin high-rise apartment project at 960 Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn. Kosowitz attorneys Jennifer S. Recine and  Edward E. Filusch announced today that they were successful in their appeal before Justice Katherine A. Levine of the New York Supreme Court to lift a TRO granted in March that prevented Eichner’s Continuum Company from moving ahead with the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) required to secure a rezoning for the site near Brooklyn Botanic Garden. JENNIFER RECINE “We are pleased ...