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.
Could a ‘model’ Central Business District have been created by building luxury housing? Only if we listen to the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.
Checking in on the three sites whose industrial past and polluted present are now a federal issue.
James Eleby turns discarded scrap wood into new tables at a Brooklyn factory. Learn how he got a foothold in the green economy.
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?
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.
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.
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.”
The former Brooklyn power broker will be remembered for creepy behavior toward women and a major, if complicated, role in stabilizing Bushwick.
Unfounded fears, legitimate doubts and ambitious alternatives have greeted the mayor’s two proposals to change zoning rules to permit greater housing density and require affordable housing.
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