Brooklyn Heights & Fort Greene
Covering Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, and Downtown Brooklyn in northwest Brooklyn.
Hearing dates are not published as open data by any city or state agency. This page shows the matters filed with your board, not the calendar. Check your board’s own website for the meeting at which a matter is heard.
Meetings, agendas and the board office
The board’s own calendar and contact details. Hearing dates exist only here — no agency publishes them as open data.
Applications before the board
Rezonings, special permits and the other actions that run the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. Source: Department of City Planning Zoning Application Portal, updated weekly.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission is requesting a report from the City Planning Commission on the landmark designation of the Public School 15 Annex located at 372 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn, Community District 2, Brooklyn.
A zoning map amendment (R6 to C6-12), text amendment (to modify ZR 74-752 and amend Appendix F), and a special permit (ZR 74-752) to facilitate a new 1.4M SF mixed-use development with 1,502 units (302 permanently affordable),132k of community facility incl. a public school, 27k sf of commercial, and 20k sf of public open space, is being sought by co-applicants NYC ECF and 240 Nassau Street Holdings, LLC at 50 Navy Street and 240 Nassau Street in Downtown Brooklyn, Community District 2.
An application by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) for disposition approval of a permanent subsurface easement to allow construction of microtunnel and feeders by Consolidated Edison at 209 York Street (Block 56, part of Lot 7) in Community District 2, Brooklyn.
A Zoning Authorization pursuant to ZR 66-511 to facilitate a new 52-story, 168,000-square foot predominantly residential development inclusive of approximately 32,600 SF of bonus (2.34 FAR or 19.5% bonus) with approximately 240 residential units, is being sought by a private applicant, 95 Rockwell Property Owner LLC, at 95 Rockwell Place in Downtown Brooklyn, Community District 2, Brooklyn.
A private application for a zoning map amendment (M2-1 to M1-5A/R10A and M1-5A/R8A) and zoning text amendment to create an MIH Area to facilitate an approximately 831,000-sf 13-to-16-story mixed-use development (conversion and enlargement), including approximately 113,000 sf of commercial space and 640 dwelling units, is being sought by 25-30 Columbia Heights (Brooklyn), LLC at 29 Columbia Heights and 51 Furman Street in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, Community District 2, Brooklyn.
A Disposition action to facilitate the continued operation of an existing eating and drinking establishment (The River Cafe) is being sought by the NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services and the Department of Small Business Services at 1 Water Street, in the Fulton Ferry District, Community District 2, Brooklyn.
Pending liquor-licence applications
Applications the State has received and not yet acted on. Source: New York State Liquor Authority, updated daily. A row disappears once the licence issues.
Licensed cafés in the district
Cafés the city has already licensed. NOT a queue: no pending Dining Out NYC application is published anywhere as open data, so this shows what exists, not what is coming to the board. Source: NYC Department of Transportation, updated daily.
No licensed sidewalk or roadway café is recorded in this district.
Permitted street events and closures
Permits starting in the next seven days that take street or sidewalk space. Source: NYC permitted-event data, updated daily.
What this board reviews, and what notice you are owed
17 kinds of matter. Every board role in New York City law is advisory — none of these boards can decide a matter on its own. Where the law names a number of days, it is printed here with the provision it comes from.
Rezonings, City Planning Commission special permits, disposition of City property, franchises and the other action classes that must run the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.
The board holds a public hearing and votes a written recommendation. A complying negative vote sends the action down the Charter §197-d(b)(2) City Council path, so the vote changes who decides even though it does not decide.
- The Comprehensive City Planning Calendar must carry the board hearing before it is held. (5 days before the hearing — ULURP Rules, 62 RCNY §2-03)
Comprehensive City Planning Calendar - The applicant must be notified of the board hearing. (10 days before the hearing — ULURP Rules, 62 RCNY §2-03)
Notice to the applicant - The City Planning Commission must publish notice of its own hearing on the application. (10 days before the hearing — NYC Charter §197-c(k))
The City Record, plus a mailed copy to every affected community board
Charter §197-c(e)(1) sets no day count of its own — it leaves the manner of notice to the City Planning Commission, which is why the counts above come from the ULURP Rules rather than the Charter.
The City Record carries the board hearing on each of the five days up to and including the hearing.
The board is treated as receiving a certified application nine calendar days after certification, and its 60 days run from there.
Charter §197-c(l) requires advance posting at the site under Commission rules, and says a failure to post does not invalidate the action.
The board’s own standing obligation to meet and to hear the public, which is the venue almost every other matter in this catalogue reaches.
No public-notice rule with a set number of days was found in law for this.
Charter §2800 requires "adequate public notice" and names NO number of days. This catalogue does not attach one, because inventing a count here is exactly the kind of claim a resident would rely on.
A board must meet at least monthly except in July and August, hold at least one public hearing a month, meet inside the district, allow the public to speak, and make the meeting available by broadcast.
The Open Meetings Law notice rule below applies on top of this one.
The State notice duty that attaches to every community board meeting, whatever is on the agenda.
This is a procedural duty ON the board, not a matter the board reviews.
- A meeting scheduled at least a week ahead must be noticed to the news media and posted in the board’s designated public locations. (3 days before the hearing — NY Public Officers Law §104(1))
News media, conspicuous public posting, and the board’s website where it has one
The 72-hour rule is CONDITIONAL. It applies to a meeting scheduled at least a week in advance. Any other meeting takes notice "at a reasonable time prior" and media notice "to the extent practicable", with no day count in the statute.
This is a notice duty, not a legal-advertisement duty — nothing has to be published as a paid notice.
Where the meeting is streamed or held by videoconference, the notice must say so and say how to attend.
The environmental review that runs beside a large land-use action, and the two public sessions inside it.
Charter §197-c(d) gives an affected board advance notice of the scope-definition meeting and a seat at it. The board’s ULURP hearing comments enter the draft EIS record.
- Notice of the public scoping meeting must be published before it is held. (30 days before the hearing — CEQR rules, 62 RCNY §5-07)
The City Record - Notice of a hearing on a draft environmental impact statement must be published before the hearing. (14 days before the hearing — SEQRA, 6 NYCRR §617.9(a)(4))
A newspaper of general circulation, and in City practice the City Record
The City rule is stricter than the State one: a public scoping meeting is mandatory in NYC. The published notice window runs 30 to 45 days ahead; 30 is the floor and is the number used here.
Written scoping comments are taken through the tenth day after the meeting, and the final scope follows within 30 days.
The comment period on a draft EIS runs at least 30 days and stays open at least 10 days past the close of the hearing.
Notices go to the affected community boards.
A request to depart from the Zoning Resolution on a particular lot, filed after the Department of Buildings objects or denies.
The BSA must respond to a relevant board recommendation, but it is not bound by it. A board may waive its hearing in writing.
- The Board of Standards and Appeals must publish notice of the hearing. (20 days before the hearing — BSA rules, 2 RCNY §1-05)
The City Record - The applicant must mail the application and the hearing notice to the community board, the borough president, the council member, City Planning, and the owners of property within 400 feet — 200 feet for one-to-three-family homes and for special permits on lots under 40,000 square feet. (20 days before the hearing — BSA rules, 2 RCNY §1-05)
Mailed notice to the named offices and to nearby owners of record
The BSA forwards the application to the board within five days of filing.
Newspaper publication is required on one day in each of two of the three weeks before the hearing, and is waived for small-dwelling bulk variances and for special permits.
NO POSTED-SIGN-AT-THE-SITE REQUIREMENT WAS FOUND for a BSA application. Do not expect a sign on the building.
The borough board has a further 30 days after the community board.
The radius figures and the City Record count were read partly from search results rather than the consolidated rule, and are the weakest citations in this catalogue.
A discretionary zoning action decided by the City Planning Commission rather than the BSA.
A special permit runs the same 60-day board window as any other ULURP action.
- The Commission must publish notice of its hearing. (10 days before the hearing — NYC Charter §197-c(k))
The City Record
NOT EVERY ZONING "AUTHORIZATION" REACHES A COMMUNITY BOARD. Many are Commission-only with no referral in law. Check the specific action rather than assuming this entry covers it.
Zoning Resolution §11-15 is the (E)-designation provision and is not a board trigger, despite being cited as one in places.
Permission to alter a landmark, an interior landmark, or a building inside a historic district.
THERE IS NO STATUTORY COMMUNITY-BOARD REFERRAL for a certificate of appropriateness. Presenting to the board before the Landmarks hearing is agency practice, not law. The board-notice clause at §25-303(j) sits in the DESIGNATION section, not the permit section.
- The Landmarks Preservation Commission must publish notice of the public hearing. (10 days before the hearing — NYC Administrative Code §25-313(a))
The City Record, on each of the days immediately before the hearing
A public hearing is required for every certificate of appropriateness, and the Commission has 90 days to decide.
No mailed-radius notice and no posted sign are required by Administrative Code Chapter 3.
The Commission’s own rules at 63 RCNY could not be read — every PDF returned 403 — so any notice duty living only there is not represented here.
A new on-premises licence, an alteration, a transfer, or a substantial change in the corporate owner.
The board has no veto. What the statute gives it is time — the State may not approve the licence until the notice period has run.
- The applicant must notify the community board, and the State Liquor Authority may not approve the licence until the notice period has run. (30 days before the city or state may approve it — ABC Law §110-b(1-b))
Certified mail, overnight delivery, personal service or e-mail to the board, with proof filed alongside the application
THIS 30 DAYS GATES APPROVAL, NOT FILING. The applicant may file at once; the State simply cannot act for 30 days after notifying the board. Compare the cannabis entry, where the same number gates filing.
The notice may not be given more than 270 days before the application is filed.
Failing to notify is good cause for the State to deny the licence.
A substantial corporate change means at least 80 percent of the officers and directors, or of the stock.
Renewal of an existing on-premises licence.
- The renewal applicant must notify the community board before the State may approve the renewal. (30 days before the city or state may approve it — ABC Law §110-b(1)(b))
The same service methods as a new application, with proof filed
THE 30-DAY NOTICE DOES APPLY TO RENEWALS, and only inside New York City. This is often assumed to be a new-application rule only.
§64-b is not in the renewal list.
The extra hearing an on-premises applicant needs where three or more on-premises licences already sit within 500 feet.
The State consults the municipality and the board and must make an affirmative public-interest finding and file its reasons. Opposition does not compel a denial.
- The applicant must post the hearing notice at the premises after receiving it, and keep it up until the hearing. (within 10 days — ABC Law §100(9)(b))
At the premises, readable from the street
The 10 days here run FORWARD from the applicant receiving the notice, not backward from the hearing. It is the one lead time in this catalogue that is a deadline to act rather than a warning period.
The hearing notice goes to the applicant and to the municipality or board.
The exact paragraph of §64(7) carrying the hearing clause was not read verbatim; the substance is confirmed on the State Liquor Authority’s own page.
The pink sign in the window and the newspaper advertisement that follow a liquor application.
This duty is owed to the public at large, not to the board.
- The applicant must post a sign at the entrance, readable by passers-by, in neon, luminous or fluorescent pink ink, and keep it up while the application is pending. (within 10 days — ABC Law §100(9)(a))
At the entrance to the premises - The applicant must begin publishing notice of the application in a newspaper, once a week for two successive weeks. (within 10 days — ABC Law §110-a)
One daily and one weekly newspaper in New York, Kings, Queens and Bronx counties
BOTH DAY COUNTS RUN AFTER FILING, NOT BEFORE IT. There is no advance warning period here. The sign appears within 10 days of the application going in.
§110-a carries no posting requirement of its own — the sign comes from §100(9)(a).
Richmond County is absent from §110-a’s list of New York City counties.
A claim circulates that the notice must run a week ahead in English and Spanish. That was NOT verified and is not stated here.
An adult-use retail, registered organization retail, or on-site consumption licence.
The board’s opinion goes into the record and the Cannabis Control Board must explain in writing how it was considered.
- The applicant must notify the community board before filing, and may not file until the notice period has run. (30 days before filing — NY Cannabis Law §76; 9 NYCRR §119.3)
The Office of Cannabis Management notification form served on the board
THIS 30 DAYS GATES FILING. It is a true pre-filing waiting period, unlike the liquor rule, where the same number gates approval.
The notice may not be given more than 270 days before filing.
Renewals are covered.
NO PREMISES-POSTING AND NO NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION REQUIREMENT WAS FOUND for cannabis. There will be no sign in the window.
The 30-day board opinion window at §119.4, with a further 30-day extension, was not read verbatim.
The commonly cited 9 NYCRR Part 121 is the wrong part; the notice rule is in Part 119.
A restaurant’s petition to the Department of Transportation for a revocable consent and licence to put tables on the sidewalk.
THE STRONGEST BOARD ROLE IN THIS CATALOGUE. The board must notify the public, hold a public hearing, and recommend within 40 days — silence is a waiver. A board denial, or a modification the applicant rejects, FORCES the Department of Transportation to hold its own public hearing.
- Where a board denial forces a Department of Transportation hearing, notice of that hearing must be published, at the petitioner’s expense. (5 days before the hearing — 34 RCNY §5-05(c)(3))
The City Record and one local newspaper - Parties must be notified of that Department of Transportation hearing. (15 days before the hearing — 34 RCNY §5-05(c)(3))
Notice to the parties
THERE IS NO APPLICANT SIGN-POSTING REQUIREMENT IN THE CURRENT RULES. The 15-day posted sign and certified-mail regime belonged to the pre-2024 Department of Consumer Affairs scheme under Administrative Code §20-224 and 6 RCNY, which was repealed. Community board pages that still describe it are stale. Do not expect a sign, and do not carry that 15-day count.
The Department of Transportation forwards the petition to the board within five days.
The board’s own duty to notify the public of its hearing carries no day count in the rule.
A restaurant’s petition to put tables in the roadway rather than on the sidewalk.
A roadway café gets board COMMENT, not a board hearing. The board has 30 days to comment. This is a weaker role than the sidewalk café entry above, and the two are routinely confused.
No public-notice rule with a set number of days was found in law for this.
No community board hearing is required for a roadway café.
A Department of Transportation public hearing IS required before a roadway café is granted, renewed, relocated, or enlarged by more than 10 percent, and it is noticed under Charter §371 — see the revocable consents entry for those day counts.
A permit from the Street Activity Permit Office to close or occupy a street or sidewalk for an event.
ADVISORY IN FORM, NEARLY BINDING IN PRACTICE. Where the board recommends denial and the applicant does not respond within five business days, the application is DEEMED DENIED. Conditions the applicant does not answer are deemed accepted.
- A street fair application must be filed before the event. (90 days before filing — 50 RCNY §1-03)
Filed with the Street Activity Permit Office - A block party, street clean-up or farmer’s market application must be filed before the event. (60 days before filing — 50 RCNY §1-03)
Filed with the Street Activity Permit Office - A charitable or health-fair application must be filed before the event. (30 days before filing — 50 RCNY §1-03)
Filed with the Street Activity Permit Office
NO PUBLIC-NOTICE REQUIREMENT TO RESIDENTS OR MERCHANTS WAS FOUND ANYWHERE IN 50 RCNY Ch. 1. The board is notified through the City’s event system; the people on the street are not. The filing deadlines above are the only advance warning the rules create, and they are owed to the City, not to neighbours.
Administrative Code §10-110 is the separate police parade permit and carries no board role.
A licence to place a newsstand on the sidewalk.
- The applicant must send certified-mail notice to the abutting property owner, stating the dimensions and the location, and file proof of it. (30 days before filing — 6 RCNY §2-66(a)(2))
Certified mail to the abutting property owner
The notice is MAILED TO ONE OWNER. There is no posted sign and no general mailing to residents.
The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection forwards the application to the board within five business days, and the board may comment within 60 calendar days. Silence counts as no comment.
The board comment window lives in the rule, not in the Administrative Code.
Permission for a private structure on, over or under the public street — a stoop, a vault, a bridge, a planter.
The board receives notice of petitions and may comment.
- Notice of the public hearing on the proposed agreement must be published in the City Record. (15 days before the hearing — NYC Charter §371)
The City Record, excluding Sundays and holidays - Where the consent spans more than one borough, the grantee must mail notice to the borough presidents, the community boards and the council members. (15 days before the hearing — NYC Charter §371)
Mailed notice
A public hearing must be held within 30 days of the proposed agreement being filed.
Newspaper notice must run at least twice at the grantee’s expense, in a daily and in a designated community weekly.
Charter §371 was read on an unofficial mirror. The day counts should be confirmed against the consolidated Charter before anyone relies on them.
The community-board forwarding period in 34 RCNY Ch. 7 was not verified.