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While some East Harlem stakeholders are negotiating with the administration to improve a rezoning plan for East Harlem, others continue to resist any rezoning altogether.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 5Comments

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May 2017

Video

Video: Plans, Proposals and Other Voices in the East Harlem Rezoning Debate

The media (including City Limits) often depicts the rezoning discussion in East Harlem as a debate between the city and backers of an alternative rezoning plan. Reality is more complicated.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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May 2017

Uncategorized

CityViews: Misconceptions Drive Opposition to De Blasio’s Housing Plan

‘The mayor’s housing initiatives address two related and important issues: the supply of affordable housing and the supply of market-rate housing that must be addressed as part of any housing…

BySandy Hornick 0Comments

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Growth Fears Fuel Effort to Protect Chinatown. Now, Where Exactly is Chinatown?

Local representatives are beginning the long-awaited move to define just what area of lower Manhattan might be covered by a “Chinatown” rezoning that the de Blasio administration has said it…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

Investors’ Guidebooks to Rezoning Areas Foresee Dramatic Change

A real-estate brokerage’s reports on East Harlem and Gowanus glosses over opposition to potential rezonings there and predicts that the neighborhoods will soon ‘take off.’

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness

De Blasio Says Staten Island Can Develop Without Losing Its Identity

At a town hall near the footprint of the proposed Bay Street rezoning, the mayor tried to strike a balance between acknowledging concerns about development and extolling its virtues.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness Video

360° Video: When the Local Supermarket Becomes a Luxury Tower

It’s just one parcel in a city undergoing dramatic development. But here is the view from the Lower East Side on what the departure of a neighborhood supermarket means.

ByZach Williams 4Comments

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness

UrbaNerd: Understanding the Latest Changes to 421-a

Er, we mean the ‘Affordable New York Housing Program,’ of course.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Apr 2017

Education Housing and Homelessness

Confusion and Worry Over Whether School Seats Will Keep Up With De Blasio Rezonings

Community advocates have been at odds with the city over whether the rezonings will create deeper needs for classroom seats than the city’s school-building plans accommodate.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Mar 2017

Housing and Homelessness