Bed-Stuy locals are pushing back on the city’s plans to sell the parking lot of the historic Girls High School to a developer to build an up to 16-story affordable housing development, saying the land should remain publicly owned and should be converted into a community green space.

The 30,000-square-foot parking lot on the landmarked school’s site at 457 Nostrand Ave. between Macon and Halsey streets was one of five publicly-owned sites included for disposition and subsidized 100% affordable housing development in the recently passed Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan rezoning, designed to spur housing in the industrial section of Brooklyn. Rezoning documents outline plans for a 240-unit building up to 155 feet tall.

Community Board 3 voted 22 to 6 to approve the project during th

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