Bronx
How the De Blasio Rezonings Look from the Bronx
Jarrett Murphy |
Sizing up the impact of MIH and ZQA on the good old BX.
Bronx
UrbaNerd: Are Other Boroughs’ Gentrification Refugees Fueling Bronx Growth?
Jarrett Murphy |
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?
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews:
Four Wrong Ideas Driving de Blasio’s Housing Plan
Susanna Blankley |
“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.”
Bronx
Video: HPD Commish at Conference on Fighting Gentrification
Jarrett Murphy |
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.
Bronx
Inmates Want Files to Prove Innocence. DA Can’t Find Them.
Stan Johnson, Brianna Lorenzana, Cristyn Mingo, Arlenis Pena, Rickie Quansah, Kayla Ray, Adaury Rodriguez and Nickie Uwoghiren |
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.
Bronx
De Blasio Housing Plan Hung Up as Much on Distrust as on Details
Jarrett Murphy |
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.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
We Posted a ‘Welcome Refugees’ Sign. Someone Didn’t Welcome It.
Jarrett Murphy |
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.
Bronx
Can the Bronx Develop Without Displacement?
Jarrett Murphy |
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.
Bronx
Bronx Group’s New Path: Not Fighting Power, Taking It
Jarrett Murphy |
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.
Bronx
Bronx Republicans Weigh in On Campaign 2016
City Limits |
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.
