Families and homeless students makeup the majority of homeless people living in Bushwick. 1,039 of the neighborhood’s 1,462 shelter residents (71 percent) lived in family shelters in April.
Art at the Limits
What Bushwick’s Children Think About Trump’s Wall
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Among those who did come to the Brooklyn neighborhood from overseas, there are feelings of deep vulnerability.
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In Amazon’s Wake, Huge Sunnyside Yards Master Plan Takes Shape
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Not far from the site where Amazon would have established its New York HQ2, city planners and community members have been talking—thoughtfully, by most accounts—about a development project that could span decades and reshape western Queens.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Bushwick +10: A Changing Neighborhood Faces a Tighter Housing Crunch
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With a major rezoning looming for Bushwick, it’s time for another deep look. So, over the next four weeks, City Limits’ reporting staff will spend the bulk of its time in Bushwick, looking for stories, interviewing people and distributing information.
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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.
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Council Approves Bay Street Rezoning, the Sixth Under De Blasio’s Housing Plan
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There were 44 votes in favor of the rezoning plan and two votes, by Staten Island Republican Councilmembers Steve Matteo and Joseph Borelli, against the plan.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
MTA to Keep Offering Discounted LIRR Rides to Atlantic Terminal
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Transit advocates hope to see the LIRR model of in-city dicounts expanded to other outer borough areas, including those served by Metro-North.
City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
Activists Still Hoping to Derail Plan to Develop on Staten Island Wetland
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A year and a half after it won City Council approval, a Staten Island development project is stalled thanks to an unsuspecting turtle.
Mapping the Future
The Trees are Gone. The Hill is Leveled. The Building is Coming.
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The question is, if they’re building on steep hillsides now, where will the Bronx’s development boom go next?
Max & Murphy: Sizing Up the Race for Queens DA
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The 2019 Democratic primary for Queens district attorney is anything but drowsy, because it embodies the yawning gap between yesterday’s mainstream thinking on criminal justice and today’s.
Agenda 2019
Call to Study New Transit Line Linking Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn
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Has the time come for a 20-year-old idea to give outer-borough residents a path to work or home that doesn’t involve a subway through Manhattan?