Two Councilmembers invited neighborhood stakeholders to draft a rezoning plan. But it could encounter the same misgivings that top-down plans have faced.
We start 2018 with three rezonings approved and many more in the pipeline at various stages.
The Brooklyn Democrat discusses displacement and development in Bushwick, the community process he helped launch to plan for the neighborhood’s future and the questions all New Yorkers should be asking of their councilmembers.
Machine problems and low morale undermine a service that’s especially critical for the poor.
Bushwick Open Studios put that neighborhood’s art scene on the map—but the event grew so popular some artists worried the art had become an afterthought. An inside look at how the group decided to change its approach.
The former Brooklyn power broker will be remembered for creepy behavior toward women and a major, if complicated, role in stabilizing Bushwick.
Two Bushwick artists—one native, one new—had a tense confrontation over the role of artists in gentrification. Then they engineered a collaboration of sorts.
Everyone knows higher rents have forced many families out of their apartments in rapidly gentrifying Bushwick. But no one has bothered to count them or figure out where they went.
When asked to reflect on the past eight years, people in 11237—be they residents, real estate agents, pastors, activists or politicians—first point to the reduction in crime.
The recession and immigration status are bigger concerns, says Father Kelly, than whether arugula is going to appear at the greengrocer’s.
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