Settlement Could Resolve Some of the Years-Long Drama Over Development in Broadway Triangle

The city has been brokering a resolution of an ongoing court case and drama over development in the Broadway Triangle.

A settlement between the city and local community groups, expected today, will result in 375 units of affordable housing, and “give preference to residents from a broader and more diverse area than originally proposed,” according to the New York Times .

There will also be legal aid for local residents who feel they were discriminated against during previous attempts to find housing.

Development in the Broadway Triangle has been mired in controversy for years. In 2009, a coalition of community groups sued the city over a planned affordable housing development there, charging racial and religious discrimination as well as failure to comply with due process.

And in 2012, a state supreme court judge issued a preliminary injunction that stopped the city from moving forward with the development of housing.

Juan Ramos, the head of the Broadway Triangle Community Coalition, told the Times that the settlement was “a model for other communities.”

The Broadway Triangle consists of some 31 acres in Williamsburg on the border of Bushwick and Bed Stuy bordered by Union Avenue, Broadway and Flushing Avenue.

It should be noted that the settlement concerns a separate property from the one Rabsky is developing elsewhere in the Broadway Triangle area, at 249 and 334 Wallabout Street, at one time owned by the the pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer. Earlier this month, City Council approved its rezoning.

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