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From the Amazon MOU to the BAM site, alluring menus of public benefits are often dangled as the payoff for large subsidies and lucrative development rights. The project formerly known…

ByNorman Oder 2Comments

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Mar 2019

Podcasts

Max & Murphy: Would a Comprehensive Plan Map a Better Future for NYC?

Gotham Gazette’s Ben Max and Jarrett Murphy from City Limits talk to Pratt Center’s Elena Conte about the possible adoption of comprehensive planning.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Mar 2019

Housing and Homelessness

One Year After the Rezoning, Has Jerome Avenue Changed?

The de Blasio administration says it has started to deliver on promises of housing help, street improvements and business assistance. Tenant groups and business advocates, however, say their worries remain.

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Mar 2019

Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Embrace it? Channel it? Or Try to Stop It Altogether?
Two Bridges is Divided Over Responding to Change

Concerns about tenant harassment, rising rents and sudden neighborhood change frame the intense debate about the proposed development of three buildings along the East River in Two Bridges.

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Mar 2019

Opinion

Opinion: ‘Close Rikers’ Eschews Real Reform for a Real-Estate Drama

‘The ‘Build New Jails’ advocates have adopted a two-step Bait and Switch political strategy that is oddly familiar.’

ByLynn Ellsworth 11Comments

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Mar 2019

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Trump Budget Bashed, Lead Rules Tightened: Housing Headlines from Around the City

And who’s afraid of the pied-a-terre tax?

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Feb 2019

Opinion

Opinion: Will Prevailing Wage Legislation Help or Hurt Communities of Color?

‘Progressives do not become progressives by exclusively catering to the building and construction trade unions interests, regardless of the merit or cause.’

ByReginald Bachus 1Comment

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Feb 2019

Housing and Homelessness

East Harlem Advocates’ Shocking Demand: Could We Use the Restroom?

Hear the voices of those who want the city to reopen a comfort station that has been closed since the 70s in an area where cops write hundreds of tickets…

ByJarrett Murphy 10Comments

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Feb 2019

Land Use and Development Opinion

CityViews: The Two Bridges Development Mess has a Two-Letter Answer—No!

‘If the tower proposal violates the deed, shouldn’t the city then rescind the permit for the tower?’

ByDavid Tieu

ByZishun Ning 2Comments

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Jan 2019

Housing and Homelessness

Time to Avoid Some Voids? City Planning Thinks So.

DCP examined hundreds of buildings and found “few instances of excessive mechanical void spaces being used,” but did find enough evidence to “support concerns raised by the public.”

BySadef Ali Kully 2Comments

Ever-Shifting Pacific Park Plan Highlights Uncertainty of Big Development Schemes

Max & Murphy: Would a Comprehensive Plan Map a Better Future for NYC?

One Year After the Rezoning, Has Jerome Avenue Changed?

Embrace it? Channel it? Or Try to Stop It Altogether?
Two Bridges is Divided Over Responding to Change

Opinion: ‘Close Rikers’ Eschews Real Reform for a Real-Estate Drama

Trump Budget Bashed, Lead Rules Tightened: Housing Headlines from Around the City

Opinion: Will Prevailing Wage Legislation Help or Hurt Communities of Color?

East Harlem Advocates’ Shocking Demand: Could We Use the Restroom?

CityViews: The Two Bridges Development Mess has a Two-Letter Answer—No!

Time to Avoid Some Voids? City Planning Thinks So.

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