The Council vote on MIH and ZQA represented a historic change to the rules of development in New York City and a huge political victory on the mayor. Its impact on the housing market will be unclear for years.
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.
The housing commissioner names names, a Council caucus states terms and the yeas and nays are just days away for East New York.
A very, very condensed version of the discussion at the City Council hearing on the first of the mayor’s two citywide zoning proposals.
Instead of sticking with a commission’s recommendation of a $138,315 salary for Council members, up from $112,500, the legislation being introduced will outline a salary of $148,500.
New York has about 95 ethnic newspapers with a combined circulation of 2.9 million people, but, in the past, city government has largely relied on English-language publications. Is that changing?
The notion of developing new apartments on NYCHA land has divided allies in the fight to save public housing in New York. That polite but passionate disagreement was on display Tuesday on BK Live
Mayor de Blasio heads to Albany. The City Council considers criminal justice reform. What else is on the agenda this week?
Catch a noon press conference featuring a call for federal prosecutions in a police killing.
Unlike its counterparts in other cities, Citi Bike is privately financed. But amid a push for it to serve more neighborhoods, and with city law requiring the company to publicize its finances soon, some believe a move toward partial public funding is likely.
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