State Sen. Marisol Alcantara and former Councilmember Robert Jackson joined the show to discuss their competing cases to primary voters in Northern Manhattan and the West Side.
Little separates the two candidates except that fact that one pledged not to join the Independent Democratic Conference and the other did. So, how important is that fact?
Ydanis Rodriguez would not specify which parts of the rezoning were still being negotiated with the city but said he was looking at all options—especially those pertaining to the Commercial U.
A report recommends using the revenue from tax-increment financing to fund community land trusts.
The Council subcommittee hearing brings the proposed rezoning one step closer to a final vote.
There was a lone vote against the plan to upzone several blocks, preserve the current mix on others, replace the library and try to connect the neighborhood to its waterfront. Next stop is the City Council.
A city grant to the Washington Heights Business Improvement District and a group of Inwood arts organizations is part of the city’s Inwood Action Plan aimed at shoring up local firms. But some see BIDs as agents of gentrification.
Suraj Patel has mounted an energetic and well-funded campaign to wrest the Democratic line away from Carolyn Maloney, who has represented the Silk Stocking district in Congress since 1993.
Income is up and poverty is down in Central Harlem, West Harlem and Washington Heights. But those neighborhood-wide numbers don’t capture what different segments of each community are experiencing.
Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez’s community meeting on Sunday came midway through the public review procedure through which the Inwood rezoning will be approved or disproved.