Project proposed for Dyker-Sunset-Boro Park border, in air space over LIRR tracks
Some 20 years ago, Dyker Heights residents successfully battled an oversized and extremely controversial development project proposed to be built above the train tracks running between 61st and 62nd Streets from Eighth to 14th Avenue that came to be known as the Megamall.
A much less lengthy — but potentially much taller — successor to that project has just surfaced, with the release by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a mixed use residential-commercial development to be built in the air rights over the Long Island Railroad train tracks (currently used for freight trains by the New York and Atlantic Railway) between Eighth Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway, on the border of Dyker, Sunset Park and Boro Park.
“It’s deja vu, all over again, as Yogi Berra said,” noted Doris Cruz, chairperson of Community Board 10.