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Plans Revealed for Brooklyn Music School Expansion in Historic District





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Spread across four townhouses on St Felix Street, the school plans to expand into a new headquarters on the lot next door.

"The project is going to result in doubling the available performing space,” says Shelby Green, who’s on the Brooklyn Music School Board of Trustees. “It's going to enable the school to offer electronic music instruction, which is really popular with young people today.”

The state-of-the-art music space would cost $15 million and take up two floors of a 24-story building proposed by the Gotham Organization. The complex also would have 120 condominiums with a third of them sold at below-market prices. The site has been a loading area for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Developers see the school space as adding to the local cultural district.

"We would have a primary entrance for the Brooklyn Music School along here on St. Felix, with the concept of having an additional entrance on Ashland Place to really create an extension of the civic role of cultural institutions”, says Bryan Kelly, the executive vice president of development at the Gotham Organization.

However, at 24 stories, the building would be out of scale for St. Felix Street, which is part of a historic landmark district. It would rise alongside the iconic former Williamsburg Savings Bank and a historic church. It would need a city rezoning and Landmarks Preservation Commission approval to move forward. Preservationists have not yet weighed in on the plan.


"We recall some of the art deco language of those buildings and sort of interpret that in a more modern way that helps to tie all three of those buildings together. And then provides a great street level pedestrian scale here on St. Felix,” says FXCollaborative Architect Jim Bushong.

The developers have not yet submitted their plans for the required city reviews. But developers hope they can break ground by 2021. $7 million of the school's cost would come from selling air rights over its townhouses to Gotham.

The application for the new headquarters is expected to be submitted to the City Planning Commission next week.
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Very nice!!!
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This is going to have a neo-Romanesque quality to it. I think its going to be a lovely addition to the area. I do hope it can proceed without attracting the flies yah know... the ones who think its 'out of scale' being next to the Williamsburg Savings Bank.
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Proposal For 24-Story Tower At 130 St. Felix Street Heads To LPC In Fort Greene, Brooklyn





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Late last year, Gotham Organization announced plans to construct a 24-story residential building and a partial expansion of the century-old Brooklyn Music School at 130 Saint Felix Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. With the help of architects FXCollaborative, the developers are now ready to present proposals to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC).

The panhandled through-block site is wedged between the Brooklyn Music School, a landmarked high-rise known as One Hanson Place, and the Hanson Place Central United Methodist Church originally completed in 1931. The Gotham Organization acquired the empty lot for $5.5 million in 2015 and since that time has worked alongside the Brooklyn Music School and FXCollaborative to conceive a project that both creates the opportunity for quality mixed-income home ownership and expands the school’s existing facilities.

That expansion could yield an additional 20,000 square feet, which would more than double the school’s existing instructional space. New facilities will include a digital music lab and recording studio for at-risk youth and vocational training spaces for recent graduates. The expanded facilities would occupy the two base levels of the proposed tower.

The residential component would comprise 120 units, 30 percent of which would be reserved for Mandatory Inclusionary Housing. This portion of income restricted households will range from 70 percent to 100 percent of area median income adjusted per household size.

Current proposals specify that the tower will comprise 164,000 square feet and will top out at 285 feet above ground. Above the first three floors, the structure incorporates a series of setback levels to both maintain a harmonious streetscape and to reduce its visual impact on One Hanson Place.

The façade on the upper levels is composed of brown brick, gray metal window frames, and floor-to-ceiling glass windows. The building is crowned by a metal-finned louver system painted in a similarly-hued bronze color.

Considering the development’s location in the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Historic District, the LPC must decide if the proposed design is appropriate regarding scale, material use, and its potential effect on neighboring properties. A public hearing for the project is scheduled for Tuesday, June 23.


The project’s existing timeline anticipates groundbreaking in 2021. The marketing launch for the residences is scheduled early to mid-2023 in alignment with the grand opening of the Brooklyn Music School Community Art Center.
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Please rename to:

NEW YORK | Brooklyn Music School Expansion (130 St. Felix Street) | 285 FT | 24 FLOORS

Based on the most current info.

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Reduction in height to 265 ft.

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FXCollaborative Revises Proposals For 130 Saint Felix Tower In Fort Greene, Brooklyn



From left to right, formerly proposed and updated rendering of 130 Saint Felix Street – FXCollaborative






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FXCollaborative has updated design proposals for a new residential tower and partial expansion of the historic Brooklyn Music School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Located at 130 Saint Felix Street, the most notable changes in the architect’s proposals include a new structural height of 265 feet, down from 285 feet, and a series of setback terrace levels toward the top of the building.

Previous feedback from the Landmarks Preservation Commission included concerns that the height of the building competes with the landmarked One Hanson Place immediately behind the proposed tower. The commissioners were also concerned that the new building blocked a historic rose window at One Hanson Place and felt that the proposed façade was too dark and overly complex, and therefore out of context in relation to the surrounding neighborhood.

In the revisions, the two-story base imitates the look and scale of a townhouse to accomplish a more contextual street wall along Ashland Place. At the third floor, the building sets back 20 feet. An additional setback at the fifth floor brings the profile back an additional 20 feet. The structure sets back another four times as it rises.

Updated renderings for the project reveal that the formerly proposed “planes” on the north and south elevations removed and replaced with the same vertical articulation used elsewhere in the envelope. The masonry components, which first incorporated eight different colors of brick, now comprise only five different colors, with the darkest shades removed.
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Beautiful. I first started going to BAM around twenty years ago, and that area was representative of Dante's Ninth Circle of Hell. It is amazing how it has changed.

I envision that FX Collaborative will come up with a similar design for the Cavalry Church site on 57th, albeit a lot wider and a little taller.
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FXCollaborative Revises Proposals For 130 Saint Felix Tower In Fort Greene, Brooklyn



From left to right, formerly proposed and updated rendering of 130 Saint Felix Street – FXCollaborative




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Wow, the design improved very significantly. Good for them!
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If these terraces are twelve feet deep, I wonder how deep the ones on FX's 3 Hudson Yards will be since that tower is four times taller and presumably, will need to accommodate a lot more people on the terraces than this tower will.
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Brooklynites sue Landmarks over “devastating” 265-foot project

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Did bodysnatchers visit the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission this summer? Maybe so, a Brooklyn neighborhood association alleges in a lawsuit.

Preserve BAM’s Historic District, a group of residents of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic District, sued in New York State Supreme Court to overturn the commission’s approval of a 265-foot building that the Gotham Organization seeks to build at 130 St. Felix Street.

The group — mostly residents of One Hanson Place, the condo within the 529-foot-high Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building — alleges that the landmarks agency shirked its duty to disapprove the building, which it characterizes as “devastating” to the historic district.

Instead, the lawsuit alleges, the commission prioritized the community benefits the project promises, including 36 affordable apartments and the expansion of the Brooklyn Music School. This violates the purpose of the commission, which is to protect historic structures, the suit says.

“Too many indications cast doubt that the system worked here, and suggest that it may be susceptible to undue influence in other instances,” the suit reads, calling out specifically “the susceptibility of the commissioners to a temptation to support solutions that will promote the general public welfare, such as by aiding music schools and low cost housing.”

Additionally, the group speculates the project was approved under pressure from or in exchange for favors from the de Blasio administration, though the suit admits that this is “not known.”

The Gotham Organization declined to comment. The Landmarks Preservation Commission could not immediately be reached.

The neighborhood group’s objections stem from two commission meetings over the summer. At the first, on June 23, commissioners blasted Gotham for its proposed 23-story, 151,000-square-foot building, saying it failed “the most basic test of appropriateness” and did not fit the scale of the neighborhood.

During the hearing, the landmarks agency’s general counsel stated that commissioners should not consider the community benefits, and that “the only proper issues to consider concerned such architectural and aesthetic issues as height, positioning of bulk, colors and materials, etc.”

The developer was given a chance to resubmit its application.

Gotham returned six weeks later with a new plan, which chopped 20 feet off the tower and reduced the massing on its St. Felix Street side, shifting much of it to Ashland Place. The commission approved the proposal almost unanimously.

The plaintiffs argue that the developer’s “modest” concessions did not merit approval, and speculate that the commissioners were swayed by “political and social issues.”

“Although the rationale for acceptance was not cogently expressed, it appeared — by dint of eliminating other possible explanations — that the desire to provide more space to the Music School and to facilitate some ‘affordable’ housing had won out and become the deciding factor,” the complaint reads.


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The project has not yet received broader approval from the city; if Landmarks’ approval is not overturned, it will still need to go through the uniform land use review procedure.
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‘INTRUSIVE LAND-GRAB’: FORT GREENE RESIDENTS SUE CITY FOR APPROVING 23-STORY TOWER





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December 15, 2020


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Dozens of Fort Greene locals sued the city’s Landmarks Preservation Committee on Dec. 3 for green-lighting a 23-story condo tower at 130 St. Felix St., saying the body was improperly influenced by the developer’s promise to include public benefits — such as affordable housing units and an expansion for the nearby Brooklyn Music School.

“This is nothing less than an intrusive land-grab in which the rationale for modernizing the adjacent Brooklyn Music School and alleged ‘affordable’ condominiums are matters that are not permitted to influence the LPC’s consideration,” wrote the group under the moniker Preserve BAMs Historic District in a Dec. 11 release. “These are not within their purview – but seemingly have been leveraged politically as justifications for ratifying the plans as ‘appropriate’ when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”
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Most of the group’s 52 members live in the adjacent 37-story Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, which is currently significantly taller than any surrounding structure — meaning the new 23-story condo could block cityscape views from some of the plaintiffs’ residencies.

Because the proposed tower falls within the Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic District, Manhattan-based builder Gotham Development needed special permission to erect the tall structure between Hanson Place and Lafayette Avenue, which LPC granted on Aug. 4.

But in court, as The Real Deal first reported, the group argued that the LPC improperly approved the building by taking into consideration the plan for a 20,000 square-foot expansion of the Brooklyn Music School, along with roughly 36 out of the 120 apartments that would be earmarked for below-market-rate rent.

Doing so would violate the purview of the LPC, which is supposed to consider only the historical and architectural worthiness of proposed buildings.
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The Commission at first sent the developers back to the drawing board at a June hearing, citing concerns from some panelists that the building’s glass facade was too imposing on the mostly low-rise brownstone block between Hanson Place and Lafayette Avenue, and that its height made it look like an extension of the iconic Art Deco clock tower.

The architects returned to an Aug. 4 virtual hearing with plans that reduced the height 20 feet by shrinking from 24 to 23 stories, making it visibly lower than the main shoulder of the 512-foot former-bank tower, which the 11-member panel approved.

The plaintiffs argue that these changes were only minor and surmise that LPC was actually swayed by the developer’s sweeteners for the neighborhood, not their redesign of the building.

The opponents said the new building would still “substantially hide” street views of the 1929 skyscraper from the south and west, while “obliterating all window views for some occupants” of the historic tower-cum-luxury-apartments.

“The proposed new construction would be devastating and, to use the key word of the Landmarks Preservation Law, entirely ‘[in]appropriate,'” the suit reads.

In addition to the LPC approval, the developers will still need to get their scheme through the city’s lengthy Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, which they previously said they expect to start some time in 2021.
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They are just concerned about their views. This isn't about the fabric of the city and ruining the rich legacy and heritage and all that rubbish. This is about self preservation and self interest.
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Gotham Organization Files Land Use Applications For Residential Tower At 130 St. Felix Street In Downtown Brooklyn

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Gotham Organization’s contentious new development at 130 St. Felix Street in Downtown Brooklyn is now under review by the Department of City Planning as part of the New York’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. Known simply as ULURP, the procedure is required for projects that require special review or modifications to existing zoning regulations.

The project site is an irregularly shaped through-lot with access from both St. Felix Street and Ashland Place. If approved, the building will top out at 23 stories and comprise approximately 166,400 square feet. Specific components include approximately 20,000 square feet of community facility space spanning the cellar through second floors and over 146,000 square feet of residential space. The residential component will yield up to 130 apartments, of which 30 percent would be designated affordable units.

The community facility space includes an expansion of the neighboring Brooklyn Music School originally founded in 1909. That expansion would more than double the school’s existing instructional space. Proposed new facilities include a digital music lab and recording studio for at-risk youth and vocational training spaces for recent graduates.

FXCollaborative served as architect of record for the tower as well as the school expansion.

Before the project can break ground, the city will need to approve a zoning map amendment, special permits, and zoning text amendments to permit the construction of a dense mixed-use residential building with partial commercial use in the Special Downtown Brooklyn District, waive all requirements for off-street parking space, modify lot coverage and rear yard regulations, and issue a special permit for bulk regulations given the irregular shape of the project site.

Gotham Organization was also required to seek approvals from the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) given the site’s immediate proximity to One Hanson Place, a landmarked high-rise, and the Hanson Place Central United Methodist Church originally completed in 1931. Following several modifications to the height, massing, masonry façade, and window systems, the LPC eventually granted the developer a Certificate of Appropriateness.

Local residents sued the LPC in December 2020 claiming that the commissioners were influenced by the developer’s promise to expand the historic Brooklyn Music School and provide affordable housing units as part of the residential offering. The groups argue that these aspects of the project fall outside the purview and authority of the LPC, whose sole purpose is to protect buildings of architectural significance. The plaintiffs also protest that the 270-foot building will “obliterate” their existing apartment views.

The lawsuit is currently listed as active with the next court appearance scheduled for Friday, June 18. It does not appear that the lawsuit has affected the public review process thus far.
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