City needs parking lot for Coney development

The Bloomberg administration has so far been unable to get anyone in Albany to carry a bill declassifying a large parking lot for the KeySpan Park baseball stadium as parkland. The city wants to declassify the parking lot from parkland to housing, and designate some of developer Joe Sitt’s property as parkland. Without the parking lot, the number of new apartments that could be built in the area would be drastically reduced. Albany legislators are resistant to act on the administration’s plan before the city reaches a deal with Sitt. “Legislators have a problem with doing something that could appear to be taking somebody else’s property,” State Senator Diane Savino, who represents the district, said.

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