The beep weighed in on the beef between two of his likely 2021 rivals and also talked about borough jails, NYCHA develpment and the Queens DA’s race. Plus, a look at end-of-session politics in Albany.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
City Presents Rezoning Vision for Bushwick That Breaks From Local Leaders’ Plan
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The city’s proposal aims to bring affordable housing, open-space resources, transit improvements, economic development and health assets to the ever-changing Brooklyn neighborhood.
Broadway Junction
Memo Reveals Tensions Over City’s Plans for Broadway Junction
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The memo lists the coalition’s serious concerns regarding the potential displacement of current residents around Broadway Junction, and states that they are opposed to any rezoning of the area.
affordability
Bushwick Awaits City’s Rezoning Proposal
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Bushwick residents, elected officials and other stakeholders say they expect the city’s neighborhood rezoning plan—due out Tuesday—to differ from a community-generated vision released last year on the issues of density, the preservation of industrial space and affordability levels for housing.
Mapping the Future
Ever-Shifting Pacific Park Plan Highlights Uncertainty of Big Development Schemes
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From the Amazon MOU to the BAM site, alluring menus of public benefits are often dangled as the payoff for large subsidies and lucrative development rights. The project formerly known as Atlantic Yards demonstrates that the devil is in the delivery.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
City Projects Gowanus Rezoning Will Lead to 8,200 New Apartments
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The housing projections revealed this week set up the Gowanus rezoning to be the largest apartment producer of all the de Blasio administration’s neighborhood plans.
Agenda 2019
Review Begins of City’s Plan to Build Four New Jails en Route to Closing Rikers
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The number of outstanding questions reflects the size of the population involved, the magnitude of the construction projects the effort entails and the unique nature of building temporary housing for people who live there involuntarily.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Heights of Potential Development Concern Some in Gowanus
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Some residents fear potential 22-story towers on the Canal corridor. Planning officials say such buildings would be rare under the proposed rezoning but are part of the trade-off for getting lower heights immediately adjacent to the canal.
Mapping the Future
Video: City’s Planners Pitch Gowanus Rezoning Plan
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The Gowanus proposal grew out of—but does not entirely reflect—a community-based discussion about how the Brooklyn neighborhood should grow.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Watch Live: City Planning Presents its Proposal for a Gowanus Rezoning
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Can’t make the February 28 meeting? Tune in here.
Brad Lander
Gowanus Open House Reveals Proposed Rezoning Faces Optimism, Opposition
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‘They heard us for the most part but they did not get everything right. And that is what this part is about.’