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Paterson, N.J., today and in a potential future when parking lots become sites for housing and commercial development.
The Regional Plan Association says there’s room to build housing for 660,000 people on the parking lots of dozens of commuter rail stations from central Connecticut to the middle of New Jersey. Local zoning laws stand in the way, however.
Is the Marx Brothers Playground just a playground? Or is it a park? Gov. Cuomo has ordered a look into the fuzzy backstory behind an element of a de Blasio administration development plan. But the issues go well beyond those blueprints.
A study finding that tackle football before age 12 creates life-long health risk doesn’t appear to be generating much soul-searching by private youth teams. And the public school system, whose players are only slightly older, won’t say whether it’s thinking of changes.
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