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After years of pushing for a comprehensive rezoning, community leaders are waiting to see the city’s outline for a smaller ‘Chinatown Core’ study as a separate public-review process begins for…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Dec 2016

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Board Moves Toward a Yes—With Misgivings—to de Blasio Administration on Chinatown Rezoning

Community Board 3 is now trying to decide whether to give their blessings to the administration’s offer to conduct a rezoning study that omits the broader neighborhood.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Dec 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Anger Over Mayor’s Reaction to Chinatown Rezoning Push

The protestors called on the de Blasio administration to take on a broader rezoning of the area in order to control development. But the mayor isn’t the only politician who…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Sep 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Chinatown Groups Still Hope City Will Take Up Their Rezoning Plan

More than a year after City Planning rejected their rezoning plan for being too ambitious, Chinatown advocates are hoping the de Blasio administration’s commitment to ‘community-based planning’ will force a…

ByJanaki Chadha 2Comments

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Jul 2016

Opinion

No BackSpace: In Primary Race, Voter Choice Could Thwart Ethnic Achievement

A growing base of Chinese voters creates a chance for an ethnic first in the contest for a Lower Manhattan Assembly seat. But with three Chinese candidates in the race,…

ByRong Xiaoqing 2Comments

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Sep 2015

Housing and Homelessness