The Use of Land Hub

Everything in one place

The use of land (more commonly land use, but I’m hoping you notice) is about who gets what, when, and how. What can be built, where, at what scale, and for whom is settled years before anything goes up, in applications most people never see.

So I put everything I’ve built for reading that record in one place. I’ll be adding to it, but let me know what you think. Also, if anyone is a non-iPhone user who would be interested in demoing the app so that it can be in the Google Play Store, let me know. —Mike Racioppo

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The Mayor’s Block-by-Block plan lines up with what this board has been saying for years. Our Statement of District Needs opens every year on the same premise: budgets are moral documents, and politics is who gets what, when, and how. Building and preserving housing has been our top priority year over year. Our district needs assessments and our, unfortunately former, Land Use pro Rebecca Kobert’s Middle Housing Gone Missing are recommended reading.

The plan’s Land Inventory Fast Track identifies 120 city-owned sites for 50,970 homes. Two are in CB6: Gowanus Green at 435 Hoyt Street, and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal at 24-64 Kane Street. There is real appetite to add more. 250 Baltic Street and the floors above the CB6 office are both candidates, and neither would require a zoning change.

Advising on policy well means starting from what is actually there. So the rent tools carry every StreetEasy listing since 2010, sixteen years of it. Play the timeline and watch rent move month by month in any neighborhood, community board, council district or borough.

Nineteen tools, all public data, covering 59 community districts, 51 council districts and 388 neighborhoods.

Block by block The Mayor’s housing plan read against ten years of district data.

Rents Every StreetEasy listing since 2010. Play the timeline and watch rent move month by month, by neighborhood, board, council district or borough. Unit sizes, listings on the market, price cuts, days on market.

Land use map Every lot in the city shaded by land use or zoning.

Less expensive housing What you may qualify for by household and income, every open lottery, and Mitchell-Lama.

NYS DHCR & Neighborhood Preservation Free housing help near you, and where State housing money went by district.

NYCHA Every development in the city, with the four in CB6.

Brooklyn Marine Terminal The 122 acre redevelopment, what is proposed, and upcoming office hours.

The Gowanus rezoning The 2021 neighborhood plan and its environmental record.

What the rules allow What R, C and M mean, and what any address actually allows.

Zoning and housing in CB6 All 70,832 homes across 13,755 lots.

Who, what, owned Every lot owned by a company, landlord, or city agency.

All housing built Every home completed in the city since 2010, by district.

Affordable housing built Every affordable unit the city financed since 2014, by income band.

Where it got built The same affordable housing, mapped.