A map showing sites that the city believes may be redeveloped in the event of the Jerome Avenue rezoning. Green are “projected” sites and Blue are “potential,” or less likely, sites.
A zoning map of Jerome Avenue (the green line, representing the elevated rail, runs along it) and the surrounding neighborhoods
Jerome Avenue, which runs underneath the elevated rail in the western Bronx, is the next neighborhood rezoning moving towards a vote.
Carmen Vega-Rivera at Rivers Ave and East 167th Street, in the southern area of the larger Jerome Avenue rezoning.
The hallway outside Spector Hall, where the City Planning Commission held its hearing on the Jerome Avenue rezoning on Wednesday. With the hearing room filled to capacity, there was at one point about 40 people standing or sitting in the hallway, many waiting to testify.
Borough President Ruben Diaz Junior and his director of Planning & Development James Rausse at the Bronx Borough hearing on the Jerome Avenue rezoning on November 2, 2017.
Bronx Community Board 4 voted to approve with conditions the proposed Jerome Avenue rezoning on Tuesday October 24
Chaplain Sandra Mitchell, a member of the Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision, testifies at the Community Board hearing for the Jerome Avenue rezoning ULURP application.
An image of the Jerome Avenue rezoning proposal from the Draft Environmental Impact Statement with additional lines superimposed to indicate the portions of the corridor that fall into each community board. Red = CB4, Blue = CB5, and Purple = CB7
Members of the Bronx Coalition for a Community Vision protest a rezoning of their neighborhood that they feared would lead to displacement of low-income tenants.
Under the 4 train along Jerome Avenue.
Jerome Avenue at Mount Eden Avenue.
Carmen Vega-Rivera, a tenant leader with Community Action for Safe Apartments, seen during the run-up to the Jerome Avenue rezoning. She cited that experience in her testimony to the Charter Revision Commission.
The de Blasio administration is studying the area along Jerome Avenue from 167th Street to 184th for a rezoning.
The Mount Eden station on the 4 line, which runs up Jerome Avenue.
The city promises a ‘holistic’ approach to rezoning a corridor along Jerome Avenue.
Residents of the area around the targeted Jerome Avenue corridor gathered for a show of strength this week.
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