‘The Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision believes that the city’s plan will cause massive displacement and loss of businesses and jobs in our community. We implore the Council to vote down this plan, which is flat wrong for our neighborhood. ‘
The Bronx borough president makes the case for a revised version of the de Blasio administration’s proposed Jerome Avenue rezoning.
La rezonificación afectaría a la Avenida Jerome y algunas calles adyacentes, aproximadamente entre la 165 Este y la 184, las cuales están hoy zonificadas principalmente para albergar negocios de autos.
Our free print newsletter on the Jerome Avenue rezoning proposal as the debate enters its final chapter. Read. Download. Print. Impress your friends.
A city analysis of the Jerome Avenue rezoning includes a list of sites and how much affordable housing might be built on each one, but the city says the list is not to be taken as a real prediction.
Ruben Diaz, Jr. says the authority’s contracting rules are an obstacle to addressing the boiler problems at developments across the city.
The De Blasio administration’s fourth neighborhood rezoning—and the first for the Bronx—is moving to the final stages of the approval process.
A Bronx resident gives a tour of Jerome Avenue and gives his take on the city’s looming rezoning proposal.
Take a tour of the Jerome Avenue area—and hear a perspective on the issues surrounding the proposed rezoning—with resident and activist Carmen Vega-Rivera.
Elvin Garcia did not get the City Council seat for which he ran. But, as he writes in this op-ed, he did gain a new respect for the people of the Bronx, for the capacity of established leaders to change and for the need to reform New York’s voting system.
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