There are lots of ways to play a role in the discussion and decisions concerning neighborhood rezonings. You can attend events or express your opinion on our site.
Or you can get in touch with some of the community groups, public agencies, elected officials and others who are working in each neighborhoods.
Click on the list below to zoom to a particular neighborhood:
Bay Street
Bushwick
Chinatown
East Harlem
East New York
Far Rockaway
Flushing West
Gowanus
Inwood
Jerome Avenue
Long Island City
Southern Boulevard
(We’ll add more contacts and more neighborhoods as this story develops; feel free to suggest one here)
Bay Street
Department of City Planning Staten Island Office
Website
Email
718-556-7240
City Councilmember Debi Rose
Website
Email
District Office: 718-556-7370
Legislative Office: 212-788-6972
Staten Island Community Board 1
Website
Email
718-981-6900
Staten Island Housing Dignity Coalition
Email
914-589-8921
Staten Island Citizens’ Planning Committee
Facebook
Email
Bushwick
City Councilmember Antonio Reynoso
Website
Email
District Office: 718-963-3141
Legislative Office: 212-788-7095
City Councilmember Rafael Espinal
Website
Email
District Office: 718-642-8664
Legislative Office: 212-788-7284
Brooklyn Community Board 4
Website
Email
718-628-8400
Make the Road New York
Website
Email
718-418-7690
Chinatown
City Councilmember Margaret Chin
Website
Email
District Office: 212-587-3159
Legislative Office: 212-788-7259
Manhattan Community Board 3
Website
Email
212-533-5300
Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side
Website
Email
212-358-0295
CAAAV
Website
Email
212-473-6485
Tenants United Fighting for Lower East Side
Website
Email
Facebook
Lower East Side Organized Neighbors
Website
Email
East Harlem
Department of City Planning Manhattan Office
Website
Email
212-720-3480
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito
Website
Email
Manhattan: 212-828-9800,
Bronx: 347-297-4922
Legislative office: 212-788-7210
Manhattan Community Board 11
Website
Email
212-831-8930
Community Voices Heard
Website
Email
212-860-6001 ext.31
El Barrio Unite
Website
Email
212-427-0555
Movement for Justice in El Barrio
Facebook
Email
212-561-0555
East New York
Department of City Planning Brooklyn Office
Website
Email
718-780-8280
City Councilmember Rafael Espinal
Website
Email
District Office: 718-642-8664
Legislative Office: 212-788-7284
City Councilmember Inez Barron
Website
District Office: 718-649-9495
Legislative Office: 212-788-6957
Brooklyn Community Board 5
Website
Email
District Office: 929-221-8261
Coalition for the Advancement of Cypress Hills and East New York, at Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
Facebook
Website
Email
917-893-8801 x 205
Local Development Corporation of East New York
Website
East Brooklyn BID Website
Email
718-385-6700
Far Rockaway
Economic Development Corporation
Website
Email
212-312-3896
City Councilmember Donovan Richards
Website
Email
District Office: 718-471-7014
Legislative Office: 212-788-7216
Queens Community Board 14
Website
Email
718-471-7300
Rockway Development and Revitalization Corporation
Website
Email
718-327-5300
Redfern Houses Tennt Association
Email
596 Acres
Website
Email
718-316-6092
Rockaway Youth Task Force
Website
Facebook
Email
(718) 868-0386
Flushing West
Department of City Planning Queens Office
Website
Email
718-520-2100
City Councilmember Peter Koo
Website
Email
District Office: 718-888-8747
Legislative Office: 212-788-7022
Queens Community Board 7
Website
Email
718-359-2800
Faith in New York
Website
Gowanus
Department of City Planning Brooklyn Office
Website
Plan Gowanus Interactive Portal
Email
718-780-8280
City Councilmember Brad Lander
Website
Email
District Office: 718-499-1090
Legislative Office: 212-788-6969
City Councilmember Stephen Levin
Website
Email
District Office: 718-875-5200
Legislative Office: 212-788-7348
Brooklyn Community Board 6
Website
Email
718-643-3027
Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition for Justice
Website
Email
718-237-2017 ext. 117
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
Website
Email
718-852-2960
Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group for the EPA Superfund clean-up
Website
Gowanus Canal Conservancy
Website
Email
718-541-4378
Gowanus Alliance
Website
Email
718-576-3108
Inwood
New York City Economic Development Corporation
Website
Email
212-619-5000
City Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez
Website
Email
District Office: 917-521-2616
Legislative Office: 212-788-7053
Manhattan Community Board 12
Website
Email
212-568-8500
Northern Manhattan is Not for Sale/Alto Manhattan No Se Vende
Facebook
Email
212-979-6238 x103
Save Inwood Library
Email
Inwood Small Business Coalition
Email
Inwood Owners Coalition
Email
Altagracia Faith and Justice Works
Website
Facebook
Email
212-567-2637
Inwood Community Services
Website
212-942-0043
Jerome Avenue
Department of City Planning Bronx Office
Website
Email
718-220-8500
City Councilmember Vanessa Gibson
Website
Email
District Office: 718-588-7500
Legislative Office: 212-788-6856
City Councilmember Fernando Cabrera
Website
Email
District Office: 347-590-2874
Legislative Office: 212-788-7074
Bronx Community Board 4
Website
Email
718-299-0800
Bronx Community Board 5
Website
Email
718-364-2030
Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision
Website
Email
718-716-8000, ext. 125
WHEDco
Website
Email
718-839-1100
Faith In New York
Website
Email
Long Island City
Department of City Planning Queens Office
Website
Email
718-520-2100
City Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer
Website
Email
District Office: 718-383-9566
Legislative Office: 212-788-7370
Queens Community Board 2
Website
Email
718-533-8773
Queens Community Board 1
Website
Email
718-626-1021
Justice for All Coalition
Website
Email
718-744-5799
Long Island City Coalition
Website
Email
Faith in New York
Website
Email
646-705-8887
Western Queens Communities Against Gentrification
Email
Queens Anti-Gentrification Project
Website
Email
(917) 745-3479
Long Island City Partnership
Website
Email
718-786-5300
Southern Boulevard
Department of City Planning Bronx Office
Website
718-220-8500
City Council member Rafael Salamanca Jr.
Website
Email
Legislative: 212-788-7384
District: 718-402-6130
Bronx Community Board 2
Website
Email
718-328-9125
Bronx Community Board 3
Website
Email
718-378-8054
Bronx Community Board 9
Website
Email
718-823-3034
Youth Ministries for Peace & Justice
Website
Email
718-328-5622
Banana Kelly CIA Inc.
Website
Email
718-328-1064
Bronx River Alliance
Website
Email
718-430-4665
Beverly MacFarlane, the tenant association president at Taft Houses, said she often fields complaints from residents incomplete repairs. "[Vendors] constantly come into our homes doing what they feel like they want to do, or don’t do, and then leave out and close the ticket.”
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