Housing and Homelessness Zoning Currents Move East:Queens Goes Inclusionary Plan for new construction employs the tactic of giving developers more in order to give residents more.
Housing and Homelessness SHAPE-SHIFTING EAST NEW YORK Affordable housing plus other amenities are planned for a never-developed piece of Brooklyn.
Housing and Homelessness SCHOOLHOUSE BLUES: STUDYEXPLORES COPS IN SCHOOLS Students at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service release findings from a yearlong study.
Housing and Homelessness REMEMBERING JANE JACOBS Urban planner Thomas G. Lunke on the life and times of a local luminary.
Housing and Homelessness STAYING CREATIVE Mayor Bloomberg announces plans to bolster the city’s creative sector at a major conference co-sponsored by the Center for an Urban Future.
Housing and Homelessness DN-NAY! CIVIL LIBERTIES ADVOCATESREJECT EXPANDED STATE DATABASE State commission urges major expansion of DNA collection, prompting concerns about funding and privacy.
Housing and Homelessness NYCHA FEE MESSAGE MANGLED Public Housing tenants say fee hike wasn’t well publicized.
Housing and Homelessness UNDER THE WIRE: DEVELOPERS RACE TO BUILD BEFORE REZONING City Councilmember Tony Avella proposes new legislation to stop illegal last-minute construction.
Housing and Homelessness FASHION VICTIMS: NEW LOOPHOLE COULD EASE CONVERSION OF GARMENT FACTORIES New waivers allowed under Hudson Yards rezoning could hamper the city’s efforts to preserve manufacturing sites.
Government Housing and Homelessness A NEW YEAR IN NEW YORK: BOROUGHPRESIDENTS HAVE BIG PLANS FOR 2006 City Limits asked each of the five BPs to outline their top priorities for the coming year. Here’s what they said.