Bill de Blasio Archives - Page 14 of 22

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Eric Garner: The First Day

Eric Garner’s death on July 17, 2014 triggered a local debate about policing tactics and helped usher in a national discussion of race and policing.

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ByBatya Ungar-Sargon 1Comment

Tenant Leaders Dispute Their Role in Shaping NYCHA Development Plans

NYCHA says an extensive visioning process among residents shaped a plan to build new housing developments in the Bronx and Brooklyn. But Tenant Association leaders feel their communities’ feelings weren’t…

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ByCole Rosengren 2Comments

Bed-Stuy is Focus of Concerns Over Fate of Community Gardens

The city has identified 181 small city-owned sites for potential affordable-housing development. Eighteen currently have community gardens on them. Ten of those gardens are in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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De Blasio Notes Housing Milestone, Gets Pushback and Praise

The city created or preserved more than 20,000 income-targeted units under the mayor’s affordable housing plan last year, the most in a quarter century.

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ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

City’s Plan for East New York Tries to Address Gentrification Fears

But there’s still lots of daylight between what the de Blasio administration proposes and what a coalition of local groups and activists wants to see.

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Foiled in Albany, Tenant Advocates Win NYC Rent Freeze

Read the order that will affect rents on nearly a million stabilized apartments in New York City.

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ByJessica Siegel 2Comments

Education

De Blasio’s Education Agenda Takes Shape at Renewal Schools

The question isn’t just whether the mayor’s plan will work. It’s whether it will work in time to satisfy critics who are suddenly skeptical of mayoral control.

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Where is Jeff Klein in the Rent Regulations Debate?

Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo, Speaker Heastie and others have made their positions on rent regulations and 421-a known. Now we hear from the head of a breakaway Democratic faction.

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