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Pedestrian Injuries Rise in Bushwick, Where Safety Features are Few
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An upcoming rezoning has some worried that more residents will clog up the roads in cars and bikes, contributing to more crashes and pedestrian deaths.
The Bushwick Project
The Battle of the Boobie Trap: Retail Tensions in Bushwick
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Bushwick feels like it’s changing by the minute, and storefronts that seem to herald demographic change are a point of increasing friction.
Brooklyn
In Bushwick, the Quietest Superfund Site in the City Awaits a Makeover
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Unlike the Gowanus Canal or Newtown Creek, two other Superfund sites in the city, there has been little advocacy or controversy around the site on Irving Avenue.
Brooklyn
Brownsville Official on What Her Community Needs After a Mass Shooting
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In the wake of a shooting that left one person dead and triggered calls for NYPD policy changes, Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuel says stronger federal gun laws and more local funding for youth intervention programs are what’s really needed.
Brooklyn
Opinion: A Film About Bushwick Has a Simple Message—’See Us’
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‘How do you reconcile 30 years of change within the Bushwick community? How do you make sense of development and the subsequent displacement that occurs?’
The Bushwick Project
Facing Massive Repair Needs, Public Housing in Bushwick is Undergoing a Huge Shift
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The Hope Gardens renovations will be the sixth transaction under NYCHA’s Permanent Affordability Commitment Together public and private partnership program.
Brooklyn
Bushwick Official on Rezoning: ‘It’s a Shame This Didn’t Happen Earlier’
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Rafael Espinal, one of two Democratic Councilmembers representing the neighborhood, sizes up the potential for saving low- and moderate-income Bushwick.
The Bushwick Project
In Bushwick, (and the City) Families are the Majority of the Homeless
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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.
Albany
Loft Law Update Stirs Tensions Among Tenants, Housing Advocates, Pols
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This year’s update left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, from loft-tenant advocacy groups, to North Brooklyn community groups worried about displacement, to elected officials who say they tried to craft a fair bill.
Brooklyn
Bushwick Tenants Sue to Force City Takeover of ‘Reprehensible’ Building
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The building at 299 Troutman Street has eight units with only four units being utilized. The other four units sit burned and empty on the third and fourth floors after a 2008 fire.