The City Council approved the controversial Gowanus rezoning today by a vote of 47-1, effectively getting the planned transformation of the Brooklyn neighborhood across the finish line with barely a month left to go in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration.
The rezoning had been in the works for years but did not clear its final major obstacle until earlier in November, when local Councilman and Comptroller-elect Brad Lander announced that he and the de Blasio administration had reached an agreement. The deal they struck includes $200 million in funding for a pair of local public housing developments–Wyckoff Gardens and Gowanus Houses–along with a mandate that new construction stemming
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