Chinese Staff & Workers Ass'n v. Bloomberg

OPINION OF THE COURT

Walter B. Tolub, J.

This application involves a recently rezoned area of Manhattan which sits within part of Manhattan’s Community District 3 (CD3). The 111-block area represents the third largest rezoning in New York City (the City) to take place since 1961, and stretches from Bowery and Third Avenue on the west, to Avenue D on the east, and from East 13th Street on the north, to East Houston, Delancey and Grand Streets on the south (the rezoning area). The rezoning area is largely made up of two long-standing residential communities comprised mostly of nineteenth century…