Vicki Been has warned, ‘[U]nless we have a much more specific proposal, those voters will have no idea what they are voting for, except that comprehensiveness, and planning, sound reasonable…
From the Amazon MOU to the BAM site, alluring menus of public benefits are often dangled as the payoff for large subsidies and lucrative development rights. The project formerly known…
Some residents fear potential 22-story towers on the Canal corridor. Planning officials say such buildings would be rare under the proposed rezoning but are part of the trade-off for getting…
Proponents wonder why an environmental impact study that explores so many facets of a neighborhood—its workforce, open space, traffic, housing market and even shadows—cannot also look at racial impacts.
‘It is time to send the transit fare control apparatus off for recycling, replace it with nothing but open corridors, and ask our police to find new roles for themselves…
Some in Greenpoint are reassured by the plans put forward by the developer of the former NuHart and Company vinyl and plastics factory, but other neighbors remain wary.
