Citywide
NYC Housing Calendar, June 11-17
Jeanmarie Evelly |
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
Brooklyn
The Quest to Clean Up Coney Island Creek, Part 3: Climate Change Adds Urgency
Nina Dietz |
Awaiting remediation for the creek, local attention has turned to the more immediate threat of rain-driven flooding. Coney Island flooded badly from the remnants of Hurricane Ida at the beginning of September 2021. The two years since were a missed opportunity for resiliency improvements, local activists say.
Brooklyn
The Quest to Clean Up Coney Island Creek, Part 2: Long Road to Superfund Status
Nina Dietz |
Polluted from both its industrial past and the city’s present-day sewer system, community leaders have pushed for years to get Coney Island Creek included on either New York State or the federal government’s Superfund lists. But it hasn’t been easy.
Brooklyn
The Quest to Clean Up Coney Island Creek, Part 1: Industrial Past Collides with a Superstorm
Nina Dietz |
While the last decade has seen cleanup efforts planned or launched at some of the city’s most polluted waterways, like Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, the community has struggled to get traction for a comprehensive cleaning plan for Coney Island Creek, despite its continued recreational use and multiple requests for action by local leaders.
Affordable Housing
Opinion: Don’t Delay New Affordable Housing for Struggling Coney Island
Mark Treyger and Hakeem Jeffries |
‘1607 Surf Ave. can begin to address the pain of the housing and food instability that many in this community face every day, and offer an economic boost for the neighborhood as well.’
gun violence
Keeping Bullets Out of Beefs: Stopping Gun Violence in Brooklyn
Jarrett Murphy |
Guns are a hot topic nationally as well as in the city. A lot of that talk rightly focuses on systemic problems, like gun trafficking. But what about the “demand side” of the gun problem in New York?
Government
Coney Island's Invisible Towers
Neil deMause |
The Bloomberg administration has rolled the dice on a major rezoning and costly infrastructure upgrades in Coney Island. Will the hoped-for development ever appear?
Government
Can a Year-Round Coney Island Succeed?
Neil deMause |
After seven years of legal wrangling, hundreds of millions of dollars in city expense, and the eviction of many of Coney Island’s historic amusement operators, the island is still seasonal.
Government
CONEY ISLAND CREEK TO GO FROM DEAD TO WELL-FED
Daniel Hopard |
After decades of languishing in hazardous waste, the creek that flows along Coney Island’s shores is about to get cleaned up — and become accessible again to local residents and the fish.
