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Borough's Community Boards Push for Greater Impact
Oliver Morrison |
Training members and securing funds to hire city planning advisers is critical, officials say.
Training members and securing funds to hire city planning advisers is critical, officials say.
Perhaps no project embodied the Bloomberg administration’s development style better than Willets Point. Will Joe Lhota or Bill de Blasio change that approach?
A plan to build housing on property once part of the Rheingold brewery in Bushwick has aroused concern about the project’s impact on housing prices across the neighborhood.
The sway that the borough president and councilmembers have over the boards isn’t new. But the past year has seen several high-profile instances of officials using that power.
A shift in transit routes has triggered a wave of social change south of Myrtle Avenue, spurring a familiar mix of optimism and fear among residents.
Iris Weinshall is not the only critic of the city’s bike lane on Prospect Park West. She’s just the only who used to build bike lanes and happens to be married to a U.S. senator.
Boom-time overbuilding left thousands of units vacant. But a city program to convert them to affordable housing has found the market uncooperative.
“If you’re the manager of a chain, a clean sidewalk doesn’t change the numbers on the register.”
The push for neighborhoods to have more than a voice.
Is the city’s failure to plan a plan for failure?