Families and homeless students makeup the majority of homeless people living in Bushwick. 1,039 of the neighborhood’s 1,462 shelter residents (71 percent) lived in family shelters in April.
affordability
One Bushwick, Two Visions: How Local Leaders’ Rezoning Proposal and the City’s Plan Match Up
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There are some similarities between the community and city rezoning proposals but the differences are important to Bushwick community members who say they have waited for decades for serious public investments in their neighborhood.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
MTA to Keep Offering Discounted LIRR Rides to Atlantic Terminal
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Transit advocates hope to see the LIRR model of in-city dicounts expanded to other outer borough areas, including those served by Metro-North.
Agenda 2019
Call to Study New Transit Line Linking Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn
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Has the time come for a 20-year-old idea to give outer-borough residents a path to work or home that doesn’t involve a subway through Manhattan?
2021
Max & Murphy: Eric Adams Says Speaker & Comptroller Are Both Wrong on Campaign Finance
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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.
2020
Video: Talking Rezonings, Rent Regs, Retail and Running for President
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City Limits’ editor appeared on BRIC-TVs 112BK to discusses the Gowanus rezoning, combined sewer overflows, the Queens DA race and Bill de Blasio’s run for president, among other things. Somehow, they got on to the topic of ‘mole people.’
Agenda 2019
Special Election Marked a Political Milestone Long in Coming for NYC’s Haitians
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When Farah Louis formally takes office, New York will for the first time have two Haitian-Americans in the City Council—a major milestone for the largest and one of the oldest ex patriate Haitian communities in the world.
BROOKLYN BUREAU
Rezoning Could Bring 18,000 New Residents to Bushwick
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The city released a draft scope of its proposed rezoning, which is projected to create 5,600 units of housing.
affordability
Doubts on the Details of the City’s Bushwick Rezoning Proposal
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Some are worried proposed height limits leave too much room for developers, or too little room for homeowners who want to sell. Affordability options and a playground project are also on residents’ minds.
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.