Affordable Housing
City Seeks Developers to Build 350 Affordable Units on East Harlem Rezoning Sites
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The city is looking for a developer to build affordable housing and community facilities on two East Harlem sites.
city rezonings
Inwood Community Groups Head to Court in Lawsuit Challenging Neighborhood Rezoning
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The lawsuit argues the city’s environmental review process for the rezoning failed to examine how it would impact the socio-economic demographics of the Inwood community, including race, income and language.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Schools, Landmarks and Ecology Are the Focus as Gowanus Awaits Next Rezoning Steps
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Advocates and elected officials are taking steps to prepare for the changes likely to come by landmarking historic sites, calling for a designated “eco-district” and raising concerns about school integration around the Brooklyn canal.
city planning
Court Ruling Rebuffs De Blasio Admin Over Manhattan High-Rises
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A state Supreme Court judge’s decision released Thursday could send the developers behind proposed four high-rises in Manhattan’s Two Bridges neighborhood back to square one.
Chinatown Working Group
LES Groups Try to Revive Rezoning that De Blasio Admin. Rejected
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Community groups and elected officials hoping to stop four high-rises planned for Two Bridges have taken the city to court. Win or lose there, they are also pursuing elements of the Chinatown Working Group rezoning plan that City Planning dismissed in 2015.
The Bushwick Project
Facing Massive Repair Needs, Public Housing in Bushwick is Undergoing a Huge Shift
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The Hope Gardens renovations will be the sixth transaction under NYCHA’s Permanent Affordability Commitment Together public and private partnership program.
Albany
Loft Law Update Stirs Tensions Among Tenants, Housing Advocates, Pols
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This year’s update left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, from loft-tenant advocacy groups, to North Brooklyn community groups worried about displacement, to elected officials who say they tried to craft a fair bill.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Bushwick Tenants Sue to Force City Takeover of ‘Reprehensible’ Building
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The building at 299 Troutman Street has eight units with only four units being utilized. The other four units sit burned and empty on the third and fourth floors after a 2008 fire.
affordability
One Bushwick, Two Visions: How Local Leaders’ Rezoning Proposal and the City’s Plan Match Up
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There are some similarities between the community and city rezoning proposals but the differences are important to Bushwick community members who say they have waited for decades for serious public investments in their neighborhood.
City Limits en Español
Aumento de Renta de 1.5% Enoja a Inquilinos y Caseros
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El aumento, que afectará a contratos firmados después del 1 de octubre, llega pese a los llamados a congelar la renta por grupos de defensa de inquilinos, mientras que los caseros reclaman subidas más generosas.