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.’
Housing and Homelessness Gowanus Stakeholders Dig Into Details of Canal’s Future A mix of sometimes conflicting concerns were aired as the city heads toward a rezoning of the area.
Education Health In Depth Investigations Chicken Pulled from NYC Schools Now Faces National Recall USDA said the health risk is ‘high.’ Meanwhile, pizza was pulled from school menus again.
