The Bronx was the fastest growing county in the state last year. Is that because residents are fleeing there after being displaced from other parts of the city?
“The battle for a more just and equitable society isn’t just a battle about land and resources. It is also a battle of ideas.”
The January 10 conference on gentrification sponsored by CASA, the Bronx Documentary Center and City Limits looked at many of the questions around the most weighted word in local policy discussions today.
A handful of inmates convicted of violent crimes sued the prosecutor in recent years to demand documents under the freedom of information act. In some cases, the files simply couldn’t be found.
Will neighborhoods accept the mayor’s housing and rezoning plans? Conversations about AMI, FAR, 421-a and other policy particulars will be important. But the mayor must also confront a larger distrust driven in part by past promises that fell short.
It’s always odd to have a note duct-taped to your door, and even odder when it’s not about your car blocking someone’s driveway. So it was quite strange to find this morning that someone had taken issue with the “Welcome Refugees” sign we’ve had posted inside our porch for a couple weeks.
This weekend, City Limits will moderate a panel discussion featuring a tenant leader, artists and the commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to try to answer that question.
The fight over the Kingsbridge Armory, above, ended in a great victory for the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. But it also forced a rethink over strategy, and a move toward controlling economic development rather than reacting to it.
Republicans are usually vastly outnumbered in the Bronx. Voter enrollment in the borough favors Democrats by better than 13 to one. But at the Bronx Beer Hall on Arthur Avenue on Tuesday night, the GOP held a slim majority.
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