Chinese owners of laundromats say they are worried more about their safety during the coronavirus pandemic, and some say they’ve had employees quit because they are afraid to come to work.
Mapping the Future
Downzoning Differences: Clash Over Housing Projections Led to Bushwick Stalemate
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The two sides disagreed on what might seem like a simple, factual question: whether or not the stakeholders’ vision for the neighborhood was a ‘downzoning.’
Immigration
Neighbor Group ‘Patrols’ Sunset Park to Protect Immigrants from ICE
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Local activists started Sunset Park Emergency ICE Watch, a volunteer group that looks to protect the neighborhood’s immigrant communities.
Brooklyn
Audiencia para establecer una zona de cese y desistimiento en el este de Nueva York
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Una zona de cese y desistimiento ha hecho parte de la lista de deseos de las organizaciones comunitarias que plantearon su preocupación por la rezonificación del Este de Nueva York en 2016.
Brooklyn
Hearing Ahead for East New York ‘Cease-and-Desist’ Zone
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‘If won,’ the backers note, ‘this would be the only zone in all of Brooklyn, a borough rapidly undergoing gentrification.’
Afrocentric Schools
Re-emerging Demand Seen for City’s Afrocentric Schools
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Although Afrocentric schools have been around since the 1970s, new ones have been popping up across the country in recent years, including in Brooklyn, as parents seek alternatives to the heavily-Eurocentric approach favored in mainstream schools.
Brooklyn
Two Longtime Polish Shops Close in Changing Greenpoint Retail Scene
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Popular grocery store The Garden and Polish butcher shop Sikorski Meat Market closed in 2019, but the neighborhood has also seen new Polish businesses open.
Brooklyn
Listen: Gentrification’s Winners, Losers and Questions
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Three experts on neighborhood change discuss what the G word has meant for New York City, its neighborhoods and their people.
The Ride
MTA Studies Adding Passenger Service to Rail Line Linking Brooklyn and Queens
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The study will look at the potential of adding “subway, commuter rail, light rail or bus service” along the Bay Ridge Branch, a 16-mile existing freight line that runs from Astoria to Bay Ridge.
Brooklyn
Bill Would Make Brooklyn a Real Estate ‘Cease-and-Desist’ Zone
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Advocates hoping to fend off aggressive investor interest think they might get a new defensive weapon: a cease-and-desist zone covering all of Brooklyn.
Affordable Care Act
City Health Program Expands to BK and Staten Island, Where Most Uninsured are Latinos
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During its first phase in The Bronx, NYC Care reached its goal of 10,000 enrollments two months before its deadline. The city expects to offer coverage across the five boroughs by the end of 2020.