Election Watch 2018
How Genuine is Cuomo’s Commitment to the Progressive Agenda?
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While Gov. Cuomo’s progressive shift in rhetoric — whether spurred by Cynthia Nixon or not — is obvious, what happens next is less certain.
buses
How to Deal with the Coming L-pocalypse? One Idea is to Ban Cars from 14th Street
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The city needs to come up with a plan to deal with the looming shutdown of the L train. One idea gaining steam would be a transit no-brainer and a political power-lift.
Affordable Housing
Tests Loom for De Blasio’s Approach to Community Planning
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The city’s land-use and environmental review processes are normally obscure parts of the city’s bureaucratic machinery. But in two communities where big rezonings are on the table, they are a key focus of efforts to put community desires in the driver’s seat.
Brooklyn
As Industry City Promises a New Sunset Park, Some Residents Fight to Maintain the Old One
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If Industry City’s new owners are hoping to paint themselves as the saviors of Sunset Park, it’s a message that has backfired with some of its neighbors.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
Bushwick Developer Sells Out, Takes Housing Promises With Him
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Community leaders in Bushwick thought they’d struck a deal to make affordable housing part of a big new residential development. Then the developer sold his stake.
Affordable Housing
What’s in a Name? Tenants Accuse Shamco of Illegal Rent Hikes
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The Brooklyn property owner is alleged to be employing the tactics to gentrify its buildings.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
Displaced, Dispersed, Disappeared: What Happens to Families Forced Out of Bushwick?
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Everyone knows higher rents have forced many families out of their apartments in rapidly gentrifying Bushwick. But no one has bothered to count them or figure out where they went.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Wary Optimism Greets De Blasio’s Brooklyn Redevelopment Plans
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The city’s nascent plan for Broadway Junction and East New York is one of two rezoning proposals — the other would target the commercial strip along Broadway in Bushwick — that could determine what the next stage in Brooklyn’s transformation looks like.
ECONOMY
As Land of Opportunity, New York Is No Denmark
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Income mobility in New York compares well to other American cities—but not to our European counterparts.
Citywide
Why Do Some Parks Suffer? It’s Complicated
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Inequities in city green space result from more than just outer-borough bias. A tight budget that affects everybody and private donations that benefit some areas over others are part of the picture.