City Planning Commission Approves Bay Street Rezoning
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The City Council will now take up the sixth neighborhood rezoning it has considered during the de Blasio administration, and the first one on Staten Island.
affordability
Bushwick Awaits City’s Rezoning Proposal
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Bushwick residents, elected officials and other stakeholders say they expect the city’s neighborhood rezoning plan—due out Tuesday—to differ from a community-generated vision released last year on the issues of density, the preservation of industrial space and affordability levels for housing.
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New Federal Tax Program for Depressed Neighborhoods Stirs Hopes and Concerns
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A lack of regulations, and a dearth of information about what impact earlier place-based tax programs had, has some New York advocates and experts worried that Opportunity Zones offer as much peril as they do promise.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
City Projects Gowanus Rezoning Will Lead to 8,200 New Apartments
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The housing projections revealed this week set up the Gowanus rezoning to be the largest apartment producer of all the de Blasio administration’s neighborhood plans.
BRONX BUREAU
One Year After the Rezoning, Has Jerome Avenue Changed?
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The de Blasio administration says it has started to deliver on promises of housing help, street improvements and business assistance. Tenant groups and business advocates, however, say their worries remain.
Mapping the Future
Embrace it? Channel it? Or Try to Stop It Altogether?
Two Bridges is Divided Over Responding to Change
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Concerns about tenant harassment, rising rents and sudden neighborhood change frame the intense debate about the proposed development of three buildings along the East River in Two Bridges.
BRONX BUREAU
Resident Input Sought as City Edges Toward Possible Bronx Rezoning
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Councilman Rafael Salamanca, who represents the area, says his biggest concern is the possible displacement of residents and small businesses.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Heights of Potential Development Concern Some in Gowanus
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Some residents fear potential 22-story towers on the Canal corridor. Planning officials say such buildings would be rare under the proposed rezoning but are part of the trade-off for getting lower heights immediately adjacent to the canal.
Community Boards
City Says Bay Street Rezoning Could ‘Bring all the Pieces of the Puzzle Together’
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But the plan faces a host of questions abut affordability, small business protections, traffic, parks and drainage.
City Launches Pilot Program to Legalize Basement Apartments
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‘Converting basement units into safe and legal housing is an important way to address New York City’s affordability crisis.’