Adi Talwar
The New York City Panel on Climate Change has predicted that under a worst-case scenario where the Antarctic ice sheet melts more quickly, the city could face nine feet of sea level rise by the end of the century — a water level that would permanently submerge entire neighborhoods, including all of Coney Island.
New York is taking expensive, multifaceted steps to protect residents from the impacts of sea-level rise. But do those measures stack up to the scale of threat the city faces?
While Gov. Cuomo’s progressive shift in rhetoric — whether spurred by Cynthia Nixon or not — is obvious, what happens next is less certain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Brooklyn property owner is alleged to be employing the tactics to gentrify its buildings.
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.
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.
Income mobility in New York compares well to other American cities—but not to our European counterparts.