Industry and neighborhood advocates have concerns about the continuing conversion of industrial land to residential land, but the administration says it is carefully striking balance of ranging city priorities.
There is a $15 million allocation for rental subsidies and a modest allocation for NYCHA, but also language on state oversight that concerns some advocates.
The Rental Assistance Demonstration program is expanding nationally and in New York City, but a new government report says the program needs better federal monitoring.
The administration’s first neighborhood rezoning in the Bronx and its fourth overall was unanimously approved by the Council after protesters were removed from the chamber.
Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen has fired back at Gov. Cuomo’s assertion that ‘It doesn’t matter how much money you pour into NYCHA, when NYCHA is incompetent to literally spend the…