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Antonio Reynoso

Affordable Housing
Brooklyn's Barclays Cente

Pledged Amenity Space at Atlantic Yards Was Never Built. What Will That Mean for Promised Affordable Housing?

Jeanmarie Evelly | July 15, 2022

The developer’s failed promise to build a glass-enclosed public plaza in front of the Barclay’s Center is a bad sign for its other pledges to the community yet to be fulfilled: Most importantly, the 877 units of affordable housing still unbuilt, advocates and officials say.

Brooklyn

Close Ally Has Inside Track in Race to Replace North Brooklyn City Council Member

Carmen Vintro / Gotham Gazette | June 7, 2021

District 34 voters have four candidates to choose from: Jennifer Gutierrez, incumbent Reynoso’s chief of staff; Scott Murphy, a self-described small business owner and volunteer healthcare worker; Andy Marte, an ex-substitute teacher and affordable housing specialist with RiseBoro, a community revitalization group; and Lutchi Gayot, a contractor.

Affordable Housing

Council Softens but Doesn’t Stop Hit to Housing Budget

Sadef Ali Kully | July 1, 2020

The final fiscal 2021 spending plan staved off cuts to smaller housing programs, but retained a shift of roughly a billion dollars in capital spending on the mayor’s affordability plan.

Mapping the Future

Downzoning Differences: Clash Over Housing Projections Led to Bushwick Stalemate

Sadef Ali Kully | March 6, 2020

The two sides disagreed on what might seem like a simple, factual question: whether or not the stakeholders’ vision for the neighborhood was a ‘downzoning.’

Albany

Loft Law Update Stirs Tensions Among Tenants, Housing Advocates, Pols

Sadef Ali Kully | July 17, 2019

This year’s update left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, from loft-tenant advocacy groups, to North Brooklyn community groups worried about displacement, to elected officials who say they tried to craft a fair bill.

affordability

Bushwick Awaits City’s Rezoning Proposal

Sadef Ali Kully | April 22, 2019

Bushwick residents, elected officials and other stakeholders say they expect the city’s neighborhood rezoning plan—due out Tuesday—to differ from a community-generated vision released last year on the issues of density, the preservation of industrial space and affordability levels for housing.

Antonio Reynoso

Bushwick Community Plan Calls for Changes in Zoning—and in the Process

Sadef Ali Kully | September 26, 2018

The plan calls for the environmental review to include ‘alternate methods for predicting secondary displacement.’

Affordable Housing

Bushwick Plan’s Unveiling Nears Amid Tension Over Possible Rezoning

Sadef Ali Kully | August 1, 2018

Two Councilmembers invited neighborhood stakeholders to draft a rezoning plan. But it could encounter the same misgivings that top-down plans have faced.

Brooklyn

Industry’s Future, Stores’ Rent Burden are Key Issues in Possible Bushwick Rezoning

Abigail Savitch-Lew | June 14, 2017

It’s yet unclear in what way the city will adopt or address the Bushwick steering committee’s plan, but both sides expect to be working together in a coordinated fashion.

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