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Video: De Blasio Admin. Makes East Harlem Rezoning Presentation

Responding to the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, the Department of City Planning presented its long-awaited draft rezoning framework to East Harlem’s community board.

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Clinton Presidency will be a Steel Dawn if Mayors Get Their Way

No, not the 1987 Patrick Swayze movie. The nation’s mayors want a little new infrastructure, and then some more new infrastructure, if Hillary Clinton is elected.

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ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 5Comments

East New York Rezoning, Six Months Later: The Key Council Vote Speaks

Touting community benefits, Councilman Rafael Espinal supported the rezoning of East New York in April. We checked in with him on the impact of the rezoning—and the delivery on promises—so…

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ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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.

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First Official Hearing on Jerome Avenue Rezoning Attracts List of Demands

Community groups pressed for deeper housing affordability and protections for workers. Other voices stressed different priorities.

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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.

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City Agrees Displacement is a Worry, Disputes That Investment is the Cause

At a conference on displacement, the city and advocates split over whether public and private development is a cause of residential displacement, or a potential antidote to it.

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CityViews: Mayor Has Stepped on Toes to Fight Homelessness. He Should do the Same to Desegregate NYC Schools

The scope of the homeless crisis justifies the city locating shelters even in neighborhoods that don’t want them. The scale of the school crisis, the author argues, ought to warrant…

ByBoris Santos 2Comments

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