Permits Filed for 86th Street Hotel
Update 3/13: NYC’s site shows that the plan was disapproved. (Last Action: PLAN EXAM – DISAPPROVED
Residents in Bay Ridge were not happy to see the news from Yimby’s website that permits were filed to build a hotel at 634-86th Street in Bay Ridge.
The permit was filed on February 28th, so there was plenty of time for residents to be informed. See permit details here or here if the site is down. Information like this should have been shared with the community before the Yimby website broke the news!
Today, in response to upset residents on Facebook:
There is a Best Western Hotel in the area at 8315 – 4th Avenue. Is that hotel over capacity regularly? Currently, rates are low, around $100 a night see here, so that means there isn’t a large demand for hotel rooms. Maybe during the holiday seasons there is more of a demand?
This new hotel location at 86th Street isn’t a good location for a hotel as there are no trains nearby. Hotels are of interest to developers because under Mayor de Blasio’s administration, hotel owners could by subsidized by the city to house the homeless.
Councilman Brannan was annoyed that residents wrote on Facebook that the hotel could possibly house the homeless. People have seen this happen to empty hotels in Sunset Park. In 2018, Bay Ridge fought against a hotel that was planned across the street from PS 104. See here
Residents were not happy to see this document.
If Councilman Brannan didn’t want the chatter, he should have spoken to the community before an outside source gave Bay Ridge the news (The bike lane news came to us from a group outside of our community as well).
NYC paid 25 million to purchase Nathan’s lot to build a middle school. (See here) We aren’t sure why Councilman Brannan or Carlo Scissura wanted a school there. (See here) At the time, there was a lot of chatter about school closings in our area, so why did these men think 86th Street was a good location for a school? There has been no construction at the new school site. Some have said that those plans have fell through, but Councilman Brannan has not spoken about it. If the plans fell through, Brannan would have shared that information by now.
Finally, neighbors were concerned that residents, who live on Battery Avenue behind the gas station and (the former) Nathan’s lot have not been been told. They probably don’t know and may be learning about the hotel construction from Facebook. My neighbors and I are tired of being told what’s going on in Bay Ridge from people outside of Bay Ridge!
In traditional Brannan form, Justin went to Twitter to seek support from Brannanites. The Councilman didn’t tell Brannanites why people are upset OR explain that he hasn’t shared information about the hotel:
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Hugs,
marlene
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