Almost lost in the drama of the Council’s final votes on the Inwood rezoning was one member’s vow not to negotiate any more changes to the zoning map until the city committed to study the effect of revisions so far.
Bitterly opposed by many neighborhood residents, the rezoning passed the Council with a single no vote.
Two days before the final City Council vote, hundreds rallied against the plan and several submitted to arrest. What is their argument against the plan that the mayor proposes and the Council looks likely to approve?
Advocates from Buffalo to Brownsville and the LES to LA are voicing concerns about displacement. One local group has compiled a menu of policies to fight it.
After a Council committee approved the Inwood rezoning, a lawmaker had harsh words for the mayor. And back in the neighborhood, Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez faced protesters occupying his office.
Tenants in illegal basement and cellar apartments typically have no lease and limited rights while living in substandard conditions.
The controversial ‘Commercial U’ is out, and the rezoning has cleared its subcommittee and committee votes.
Nine years ago the Bloomberg administration launched a program targeting contaminated city sites for remediation. More than 500 sites have entered its pipeline since.
Two Councilmembers invited neighborhood stakeholders to draft a rezoning plan. But it could encounter the same misgivings that top-down plans have faced.
The Partners in Preservation program, first mentioned in the update to the mayor’s housing plan issued in November, expects to seek nonprofit bidders by year’s end.