A three-year-old deal to house formerly homeless tenants with moderate-income renters in a Park Slope building is still on the books–but bureaucratic rules have kept half the units open.
It’s taken a while, but the city has quietly started to move some of the worst housing in the South Bronx into the hands of private and nonprofit housing groups.
According to city officials, controlling truck traffic in some Bronx neighborhoods takes a miracle.
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