Bronx
Coney Baloney: DiNapoli's Report Obscures Brooklyn Beachfront's Rollercoaster Economy
Neil deMause |
Job growth is soaring in Coney Island, says a new report. That was news to anyone who’s actually been to Coney Island lately.
Economy
Shopping For Change In Crown Heights
Patrick Wall |
Like many Brooklyn neighborhoods, it is seeing a surge in new businesses and young residents. Do the doubts about gentrification run deeper there?
Bronx
Federal Funds Have City Planners Eyeing East New York, Bronx
Jarrett Murphy |
A federal planning grant to be shared among several governments on either side of the New York-Connecticut border aims for transit-oriented development.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Planning For Cities' Future Must Be Fair
Arlene Rodriguez |
As the Regional Plan Association convenes its annual assembly, one participant notes that along with efficiency and the environment, equity must be a goal of urban planners.
ARTS and CULTURE
Growing Grown-Ups In Harlem
Helen Zelon |
Broccoli, cucumber, bell peppers, collard greens. Strawberries, blueberries, grapes and tomatoes; runner beans and basil, four big beds of jalapeno peppers. Worms and compost. Hip hop and capoiera. A cheeseburger cookout with all the trimmings: “We have enough food for everyone to eat here, and more,” says Nando Rodriguez as kids grab burgers, sliced pineapple and macaroni.
Bronx
Who's Got The Power? Citizens To Weigh In
Jarrett Murphy |
The first public hearing of the mayor’s Charter Revision Commission could be the start of a fast-track effort to change the way New York City governs itself.
ARTS and CULTURE
Another African Burial Ground
Demetria Irwin |
Though a bus depot occupies most of an old Harlem church cemetery site, there’s still hope for memorializing African history uptown.
ARTS and CULTURE
A Quiet Alarm Sounds
David Alm |
A multimedia art exhibit in Fort Greene examines the neighborhood-changing going on all around it.
Housing and Homelessness
A Forty-Second Street Saga
Susan Baldwin |
At the corner of Forty-Second Street and Tenth Avenue sit five historic apartment buildings whose tenants have been buffeted by harassment, foreclosures and fires. With a pricetag of $3 million on the structures, many hands are reaching for them. Tenants, however, can be a stubborn lot.
