Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY - Expending Of The Schaeffer District Into The Old Kedem Winery Site

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY - Attorneys and architects for the Rector Hylan Corporation presented their case at Borough Hall for Borough President Marty Markowitz to recommend a massive spot upzoning for the old Kedem Winery site, currently owned by the Neiman family.
The location, on Kent Avenue near South 8th Street, is well south of the massive rezoning of the Greenpoint-Williamsburg waterfront approved by the City Council last year. Under current zoning, the site of the low-rise former winery is zoned only for manufacturing. It is just south of the Williamsburg Bridge but just north of the Schaeffer Brewery site, where the construction of two residential towers is nearly complete.

The architect, Sherida Paulsen, and the lawyer, Henry Hornstein, are referring to this new spot upzoning as "an extension of the Schaeffer district." Several interested members of the public, and especially affordable housing advocates, don't see it that way.