Local panel tackles new hotel for Fifth Avenue
They don’t like it, but there’s not much they can do about it.
Members of Community Board 10, like many activists, are not necessarily happy with the proposed six-story, 63-unit hotel that could be coming to the long-vacant lot across the street from P.S. 104, which — like so many local schools — is overcrowded.
Nonetheless, “Since the development would be as-of-right, there is unfortunately not much this board can do in terms of power to prevent this hotel from being built,” CB 10’s Zoning and Land Use Committee Chair Brian Kaszuba told members at the group’s general meeting, held on Monday, March 19 at the Fort Hamilton Senior Center. “However, the committee does not believe that we need another hotel in our community. We need more classrooms, we need more affordable housing – we have other needs.”