Brooklyn
Can De Blasio Save Brooklyn Manufacturing?
Jarrett Murphy |
After a brutal start to the century, manufacturing is rebounding in Brooklyn. But with competition for space only intensifying, can the new growth last?
Affordable Housing
Council Sees 5 Sticking Points on De Blasio Rezoning Plan
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Legislators’ concerns over the plan to rezone East New York mirror their worries about the mayor’s citywide proposals. A deal seems likely. Its exact shape remains anybody’s guess.
Brooklyn
CityViews: Distorting Downtown Brooklyn’s Past Can Only Obscure Its Future
Norman Oder |
Could a ‘model’ Central Business District have been created by building luxury housing? Only if we listen to the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.
Brooklyn
Video: Brooklyn’s Superfund Scorecard
Jarrett Murphy |
Checking in on the three sites whose industrial past and polluted present are now a federal issue.
Green Jobs Gone Missing
Video: One Man’s Path to a Green Job
Olivia Leach |
James Eleby turns discarded scrap wood into new tables at a Brooklyn factory. Learn how he got a foothold in the green economy.
gun violence
Keeping Bullets Out of Beefs: Stopping Gun Violence in Brooklyn
Jarrett Murphy |
Guns are a hot topic nationally as well as in the city. A lot of that talk rightly focuses on systemic problems, like gun trafficking. But what about the “demand side” of the gun problem in New York?
Housing and Homelessness
De Blasio Housing Chief Rebuts Critics of East N.Y. Plan
Jarrett Murphy |
Testifying about a controversial rezoning proposal, the HPD commissioner rejected the idea that city-subsidized apartments would charge rents out of step with prevailing rents or average incomes in the Brooklyn neighborhood.
Affordable Housing
Brooklyn Community Gardeners React to De Blasio Admin. Deal
Cole Rosengren |
For months volunteers at dozens of community gardens have wondered which ones might be targeted for affordable housing. Our partners at Brooklyn Deep were in the room when gardeners learned the fate of their neighborhood plots.
On the Border of Justice
What is Life Like in Immigration Detention?
Jarrett Murphy |
Reporter Batya Ungar-Sargon, immigration lawyer Talia Peleg and professional signer (and one-time immigration detainee) Nnecka Ifemesia appeared on the Brian Lehrer Show to discuss the City Limits series “On the Border of Justice.”
Brooklyn
Vito Lopez, 1941-2015
Jarrett Murphy |
The former Brooklyn power broker will be remembered for creepy behavior toward women and a major, if complicated, role in stabilizing Bushwick.
