Borough President Helen Marshall approved the city’s plan to dispose of four vacant lots that are too small to develop.
The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) wants to remove the properties from its inventory in order to sell in the future.
Community Board 7 gave the department the green light last month.
The tiny plots of land in Mitchell-Linden, Flushing, College Point and Whitestone were created erroneously, according to DCAS senior planner Christian Grove. Some are as small as a patch of grass in between homes, Grove said.
The four properties were all acquired by the city for free, between 1955 and 1988, through the in-rem tax foreclosure process, according to a DCAS spokesperson.
DCAS representatives said the department would offer each of the four plots to adjacent owners but did not plan to subdivide and sell in pieces. Marshall said “every effort should be made to contact” them.
The borough president also followed suit with the community board in approving a second DCAS application to disown another property at 135-15 40th Road in Flushing.
The department plans to dispose of the property to NYC Land Development Corp, an entity of the city’s Economic Development Corp, which will then sell the land to developer Success 88 for $1.5 million.
Success 88’s $3.5 million project includes building a six-story building with commercial and office space and a community facility, which includes a school for English learners.
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