Bedford-Stuyvesant Archives

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The retail worker and father of two believes his experiences as both a renter and public school parent have prepared him to potentially unseat incumbent Stefani Zinerman in the upcoming…

ByTatyana Turner 0Comments

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Sep 2023

Economy Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

A Real Estate Trust Bought Dozens of Brooklyn Brownstones. Now It Wants Out.

A real estate trust bought single-family homes in gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhoods, renovated, and rented them out at a premium. With the trust now looking to offload the assets, tenants are…

ByPatrick Spauster 3Comments

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Sep 2023

Housing and Homelessness News Politics

City Pitches 4K Apartments for Industrial Central Brooklyn Stretch

Mayor Eric Adams has positioned the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan as one of two significant neighborhood-level rezonings that could help boost his “moonshot” goal of 500,000 new units of housing…

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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Dec 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development News

Adams’ First Two Neighborhood Rezonings Take Shape as Mayor Looks to Supercharge Development

Mayor Eric Adams has proposed neighborhood-level rezonings near future Metro-North stations in the East Bronx and along an Atlantic Avenue light manufacturing corridor in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The local…

ByDavid Brand 5Comments

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Jun 2022

Comunidades de habla hispana Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

Batalla entre progresistas y demócratas establecidos se desarrolla en el distrito 54 de la Asamblea en Brooklyn

Erik Martin Dilan, quien lleva cuatro periodos en el cargo, se enfrenta a Samy Nemir Olivares, respaldado por el DSA, en una de las elecciones primarias de este mes en…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Oct 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

NYCHA Leaders List Priorities for Next HUD Regional Chief, as Biden Considers Brooklyn Councilmember

Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuel—who represents the 41st District of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, East Flatbush, and Crown Heights—is President Joe Biden’s likely pick as next New York-New Jersey regional administrator for the…

ByDavid Brand 1Comment

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Aug 2021

Climate and Environment

Lack of Affordable Housing Fuels Health Disparities in Central Brooklyn, Student-Led Report Says

“Part of it is a little sad. I’m looking at all these statistics—the rates of rent-burdened residents, the poor housing conditions. When you see it in print, it makes it…

ByDavid Brand 2Comments

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Oct 2018

Justice

Crime Spike in Bed-Stuy Spurs Call for Block Watchers

The Block Watcher program was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The program was revived in 2013 across several neighborhoods, including Bed-Stuy and Astoria, and then halted again in recent…

ByKelly Ng 2Comments

Candidates on Housing: DSA-Backed Eon Huntley Vies for Bed-Stuy Assembly Seat