Urgent Community Meeting April 16, 2024
Our next meeting is Tuesday, April 16. We need you to come, to demonstrate to our elected officials that we care about housing and keeping it consistent with our neighborhood.
Our elected officials have been invited. Shahana Hanif’s office has confirmed their attendance, and her support is pivotal in this issue.
The only way our elected officials can help us get what we want is for us to let them know what we want. Your attendance is important to deliver this message.
Please join us on April 16 at 7:00pm at Shepherd’s Hall in the Holy Name of Jesus Church (enter by way of the parking lot at 245 Prospect Park West, near Windsor Place).
Agenda:
- Welcome and thanks to our community
- Background on Housing Not High-Rises (formerly Arrow Action)
- Updates on city-wide zoning efforts via the City of Yes initiative
- Reports from subcommittees, including recent meetings with our representatives
- Neighborhood outreach and request for more signatures on our petition
- Q&A
- Post-meeting committee sign-up
We are looking forward to seeing you on April 16!
Thanks,
– Chris, Jack, Jay, Julia, Kate, Marty, Phil and Steph
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Housing Not High-rises is a community-based group. We live in Windsor Terrace, South Slope, and Kensington. We came together a couple of months ago when we learned that Arrow Linen Supply Company on Prospect Avenue, between Prospect Park West and 8th Avenue, wants to develop massive 13-story mid-block luxury towers.
Arrow Linen has applied to the city to rezone the block––allowing it to sell its property to a developer for maximum profit and then leave.
This drawing is copied from Arrow Linen’s proposal.
If Arrow Linen gets permission to build these towers, greedy developers will do the same everywhere we live.
We have better ideas. We want AFFORDABLE HOUSING. We do NOT want high-priced high-rises.
Arrow Linen has hired lobbyists and lawyers…. We are organizing.
We are meeting with our elected officials to share feedback from our neighbors and make our goals clear. We would like to see a housing plan that creates community-based housing that works with our neighborhood, not luxury towers.
Please join us. Go to https://housingnothighrises.org to sign our petition, join our mailing list, and get meeting updates. See our ideas, city planning information, and Arrow’s proposal. Come to our next community meeting at Holy Name of Jesus, Shepherd's Hall, listed above.
Please contact our City Councilmember, Shahana Hanif. She is central to what is actually built. See our website for suggested messages. Contact her at 718-499-1090 / district39@council.nyc.gov / #ShahanaFromBK.
Let Councilmember Hanif know that we want housing that supports our neighborhood, not high-rises that enrich landowners.