Mayor Bloomberg has said he’d like to see some affordable housing built as part of downtown’s redevelopment, but his policy for making that happen may have some holes–particularly since it is so reminiscent of the decades-old Battery Park City deal which produced few affordable apartments.
Just as the city’s new recycling laws start to work against them, some homeless New Yorkers may soon lose another resource: We Can, a unique nonprofit recycling depot in Hell’s Kitchen, is slated to lose its home this week as the city makes way for a mixed-income housing development
After years of pushing for the construction of a few new schools in the long-unused Kingsbridge Armory–with little response from the mayor’s office–some Bronx residents recently got their first sign that their proposal could happen when Bloomberg officials said they would look into it.
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