Health and Environment
How to Care for Your NYC Street Tree, and Strengthen Democracy
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A reader recently asked about an ailing tree on her block. She had reported it to the city but nothing was happening. What could she do?
biodiversity
Climate Change Poses Serious Challenges for City’s Natural Areas
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Three experts on New York City’s environment on New York City’s natural areas, the biodiversity that exists within them and how climate change is going to affect them.
Housing and Development
Housing Update: Jersey City will add as many apartments as all of Manhattan in 2019
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Plus: Restaurants are feeling the pain from ever-increasing rental rates, Rep. Nadler weighs in on NYCHA demolition plan.
Albany
Council Could Try to Force City to Boost Value of Homeless Vouchers
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CityFHEPS, the city’s voucher system has moved many homeless people into housing. But more linger in shelters because the voucher won’t pay enough to cover the rent.
Blackstone Stuyvesant Town
Housing Update: Private Equity Firm Keeping Affordable Apartments Off the Market
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Plus: A proposal for hotel regulation and the influence of hotel-industry cash, landlords blowing past fee limits and a push for rent regulation in Rochester.
Bronx Housing News
Housing Update: City Lagging on Shelter Construction
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Plus, criticism of NYCHA’s general manager, details on a building collapse, concerns about a major nonprofit and other housing stories you might have missed this week.
Bronx
NYC to Get New Hub for Locally Grown Food
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The new Bronx distribution facility for regional food will boost supply and potentially lower price, backers say.
airbnb
Housing Update: City Cracks Down on Illegal Airbnbs
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The housing stories you might have missed this week.
At NYCHA’s Fulton Houses, A Bitter Divide Over the Future of the Development
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At the Fulton Houses, activists and residents are fighting a proposal to demolish two buildings and allow a private developer to build market-rate apartments. But NYCHA says the plan is the only way to raise funds to make desperately-needed repairs.
Housing Update: State Officers to Engage Homeless in Subway
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The housing stories you might have missed this week.