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Residents of public housing near the area likely to be rezoned are worried that their community will not benefit from the jobs and housing created by the redevelopment.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Feb 2017

New Planning Chief’s Story: Brooklyn Roots, Citigroup’s Crisis, Obama’s Farewell

Marisa Lago brings to the Planning Commission lessons learned in a three-decade career that has taken her from New York to Boston to Albany to D.C. It includes a five-year…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Dec 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Visions Clash at Meeting on Environmental Review for East Harlem Rezoning

The city’s rezoning plan has critics aplenty–the supporters of a separate ‘neighborhood plan,’ their partners who want to press beyond that plan, and several groups who want to see no…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Nov 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Dueling Protests at Meeting on East Harlem Rezoning

A group that helped draft the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan pushed for the city’s rezoning scheme to offer more housing to low-income people. A group that opposes any rezoning denounced…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Nov 2016

Housing and Homelessness

De Blasio Administration Predicts East Harlem Plan Will Make Room for 8,400 More People

Depending on how you look at it, a proposed rezoning could either be a necessary precaution against displacement or a catalyst for rent increases in existing buildings.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Fate of Council Speaker’s East Harlem Plan Uncertain

It’s unclear how closely the city’s rezoning proposal will follow the most detailed community-based plan to emerge during the two-plus years of the de Blasio administration’s housing push.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Sep 2016

Housing and Homelessness Investigations

Skeptics Say City’s Environmental Studies Understate Damage from Development

The limited scope, curious criteria and advisory nature of those studies has some community advocates worried the city will miss the problems Mayor de Blasio’s zoning changes could cause.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 6Comments

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Jun 2016

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Past Rezonings Shape Long Island City’s Feelings About De Blasio Plan

More so than any of the other areas tabbed so far for rezonings under the mayor’s housing plan, LIC has dealt with the effects—good and bad—of Bloomberg-era land-use moves.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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May 2016

Housing and Homelessness

City Delays Next Step in Jerome Avenue Rezoning

A release of the draft scope for the latest area targeted by the de Blasio housing plan will be pushed from May to September to allow more community engagement.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness

City’s Staten Island Rezoning Targets Contested Territory

In many ways, Bay Street is like corridors in other de Blasio administration neighborhood plans. One difference is the tensions over race, policing and ‘quality of life’ that have played…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

NYCHA Worries Drive Doubts About Long Island City Rezoning

New Planning Chief’s Story: Brooklyn Roots, Citigroup’s Crisis, Obama’s Farewell

Visions Clash at Meeting on Environmental Review for East Harlem Rezoning

Dueling Protests at Meeting on East Harlem Rezoning

De Blasio Administration Predicts East Harlem Plan Will Make Room for 8,400 More People

Fate of Council Speaker’s East Harlem Plan Uncertain

Skeptics Say City’s Environmental Studies Understate Damage from Development

Past Rezonings Shape Long Island City’s Feelings About De Blasio Plan

City Delays Next Step in Jerome Avenue Rezoning

City’s Staten Island Rezoning Targets Contested Territory

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