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Brooklyn

City Details Affordable Housing, Remediation Plans for Gowanus Green Site

By Sadef Ali Kully | November 24, 2020

Officials are planning six buildings of all affordable housing at the contaminated city-owned site, as well as a park and a public school.

Gowanus Canal

Gowanus Group Files Lawsuit Over City’s Use of Virtual Hearings During Rezoning Review

Gowanus Canal

City Says New Stormwater Rule Will Help Alleviate Sewage Overflow into Gowanus Canal

Mayoral Hopeful Eric Adams on Schools, Development, Policing and More

Brooklyn Beep Adams Joins Mayoral Field, Denouncing 'Dysfunction'

The Coronavirus Crisis

Same Old Crisis: In Bushwick, Hunger and Joblessness Hold Steady in a Bad Place

By Daniel Parra | November 11, 2020

From local pols to community leaders, volunteers to residents, no one believes things are getting much better in the neighborhood now, months into the pandemic.

COVID-19

Checking in on New York’s COVID-19 ‘Cluster’ Containment Strategy

By Nicole Javorsky | November 5, 2020

It’s been nearly a month since New York started its ‘Cluster Action Initiative’ to contain the spread of coronavirus by instituting restrictions in specific hotspot neighborhoods. Will it keep a second wave at bay?

aid

La necesidad de comida parece no haber cambiado en Bushwick

By Daniel Parra | November 5, 2020

Desde los senadores estatales, pasando por los políticos locales, líderes comunitarios, voluntarios y residentes de Bushwick, ninguno de ellos ve que las cosas estén mejorando en Bushwick.

Election 2020

Breaking Down the 2020 Election Results for NYC (So Far)

By Jarrett Murphy | November 4, 2020

On Staten Island, Nicole Malliotakis claimed victory late Tuesday but incumbent Max Rose refused to concede. In the State Senate, Democrat Andrew Gounardes is trailing Republican Vito Bruno by about 6,000 votes. Plus more updates.

Education

Opinion: ‘Learning to Work’ Program Cuts Threaten the Futures of Students Like Me

By Christyl Rodriguez | November 2, 2020

‘While students face different kinds of obstacles in their previous schools, from mental health to family obligations or just a lack of support, they found trusting relationships and a new sense of purpose at their transfer schools.’

Election 2020

Democrats See a Chance to Nab the Assembly Seat Malliotakis is Giving Up

By Jarrett Murphy | October 26, 2020

Brandon Patterson and Michael Tannousis are vying for an Assembly district that shares territory with the only competitive Congressional and Senate races on city ballots Nov. 3.

Affordable Housing

NYCHA Improvements are Bottom Line in Support for Gowanus Rezoning, Local Leaders Say

By Sadef Ali Kully | October 26, 2020

At a Brooklyn Community Board 6 meeting Thursday, attendees raised questions about whether repairs for NYCHA complexes and opportunities for public housing residents would be included in the rezoning.

Economic Development

Opinion: NY Is Not Anti-Business. But It’s Not a Pushover, Either

By Adam Friedman | October 22, 2020

‘The narrative that New York is anti-business, triggered by the recent defeat of the Industry City proposal, is not only misleading, but simplistic.’

Brooklyn

Assembly Hopeful: Eviction Ban Would ‘Save Lives’

By Jarrett Murphy | October 22, 2020

Phara Souffrant Forest, a nurse turned candidate, is on the verge of unseating an incumbent Democrat in Brooklyn.

Voices of New York

Asian and Black New Yorkers Rally Together Against Racism and Police Brutality

By Zhiming Zhang for Sing Tao Daily | October 15, 2020

Speakers talked about how the two groups worked together in the civil and LGBTQ rights movements, the challenges Asian and African immigrants face, and the violence the police have executed on both Asian and Black communities.

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