Ron Mandel: historical residential uses and current site photos

which serves as warehouse space and office above, and the other two tax lots are used for parking and loading.

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The lots are conveniently located within walking distance to mass transit, the J and Z lines, as well as New York City bus routes.

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The purpose of the aerial map depicted on the screen is to demonstrate this unique M11 pocket in this Bushwick neighborhood.

The site, which is outlined in orange, is on the south side of Melrose Street, right across from the Denizen building, which we'll talk about in another few minutes.

As you can see from the aerial map,

Much of the block already is occupied by residential uses.

The surrounding uses range from eight to nine story mixed use residential buildings directly across from the other street.

That's the Denizen building, which is the result of the Rheingold rezoning.

And other two to five story warehouse and commercial buildings, as well as two to five story residential buildings at the mid block.

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Touching upon the council member's comment before about the building across the street, that's the building located on the left in the photograph on the screen, referred to as the Denizen Building.

It's a nine-story residential building, which substantially changed the composition and character of this portion of Melrose Street.

The building was constructed in 2019, and since then has been proven to be a very difficult challenge for our client to operate their business across the street.

The Melrose Street itself measures about 50 feet in width.

Once you subtract the sidewalks and parking on both sides of the street, there's only 11 feet of width located on that street.