ARTS and CULTURE Video Video: Program Helps Artists Make Their Work a Tool for Social Change Artists are hoping to produce work relevant to the issues facing neighborhoods and connect with people leading the fight for change.
Housing and Homelessness Community Developers Say City’s Housing Plan Leaves Them Behind Not-for-profit developers say the city’s focus on producing more units faster and cheaper is sidelining the mission to create housing that neighborhoods actually welcome.
Housing and Homelessness Video Video: Highlights from the Far Rockaway Rezoning Hearing When Queens Community Board 14 heard public testimony, they got an earful. Here are just a few highlights.
Justice Closing Rikers Goes from Pipe Dream to Policy The city will sweat the details for a long time. But let’s give de Blasio his due for putting his stamp on history.
Housing and Homelessness Queens Board Approves Rockaway Rezoning With Significant Conditions Call for lower height limits on new buildings, new infrastructure and affordable housing that favors moderate incomes.
Housing and Homelessness Bid to Protect and Promote Art as Staten Island Rezoning Nears A thriving art scene has developed where history, water and culture meet on the borough’s North Shore.
Housing and Homelessness Video of the Rockaways Rezoning Hearing and Vote The board voted to approve with conditions the city’s proposed rezoning of downtown Far Rockaway by a vote of 26 to 2.
Housing and Homelessness News Eight Things Developers Think About De Blasio’s Rezoning Strategy We asked nine developers about rezonings, displacement and how they would solve the affordability crisis.
Education Policies Shift, Neighborhoods Change, but Elementary School Segregation Holds On Many argue that policy choices helped segregate our schools, and new and different policy choices are needed to integrate them.
ARTS and CULTURE A Rezoning Poem: ‘Surviving in the Neighborhood’ ‘It is a responsibility to look towards the betterment of all, living in the neighborhood.’
