BROOKLYN BUREAU
Watch Live: City Planning Presents its Proposal for a Gowanus Rezoning
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Can’t make the February 28 meeting? Tune in here.
accessibility
Video: MTA Must Prioritize Subway Elevators as NYC Ages, Activists Say
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In the next two decades, New Yorkers 65 and older will account for 18 percent of the city’s population, according to the AARP. And they’re going to need a lot more elevators than the transit system currently offers.
Agenda 2019
Video: Breaking Down the Race for Public Advocate
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Sixteen people are running for a post with a staff smaller than an NFL team’s active roster, a budget less than one-fifteenth of one percent of the police department’s and a funky assortment of duties and powers. Does the race matter?
Agenda 2019
Video: A New State Senator Sizes Up the Task in Albany
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Jessica Ramos will be one of 15 rookie State Senators joining a 40-member Democratic majority in charge of the upper house of the state legislature for the first time in a decade.
GOVERNMENT
Video: Senate Democrats Mike Gianaris and Julia Salazar Preview 2019 in Albany
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The incoming Senate deputy majority leader and one of the 15 first-time legislators who’ll join the body come January talk about the Democrats’ agenda, the Amazon deal, single-payer healthcare and more.
GOVERNMENT
Video: After the Long-Hanging Fruit, Will Albany Look at Term Limits, Instant Runoffs?
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How ambitious will the wave of reform in Albany be when Democrats take full control of state government and start to address a long list of campaign-finance, voting and ethics reforms?
HEALTH and ENVIRONMENT
Video: New Phase in Long Push to Clean Up New York City’s Waterways
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After spending billions on reducing water pollution and promising to spend even more to make New York’s rivers, canals, bays and creeks cleaner, the city is about to embark on a plan that will deal with sewage in all five boroughs.
HOUSING and DEVELOPMENT
On the 2019 Housing Agenda: Rent Regs, Rezonings … and Real Affordability?
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A video conversation with a top tenant organizer and a leading affordable-housing advocate about what 2019 has in store for New York renters and neighborhoods.
Agenda 2019
Video: Brooklyn Minister Says What NYCHA Needs Most is City Hall Leadership
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Rev. David Brawley, a leader of Brooklyn NYCHA tenants pressing the mayor for answers, says a lack of trust will hamper many of the initiatives the authority has announced as it tries to save the housing on which 400,000 people depend.
community Gardens
Q&A: Where Will the City Find New Open Space?
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From community gardens between high-rises to an island in the middle of the harbor to abandoned underground chambers, there’s no shortage of ideas for where a growing city might find room for a little green. The question is whether the political will exists to fund spaces that will be accessible to all.