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If New York is to meet PlanNYC’s goals, apartment buildings must get greener. While property owners and tenants both benefit from more efficient systems, getting them up and running takes…

ByPatrick Arden 0Comments

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Mar 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Industrial, Homeless Policies Clash in East New York

A plan to build subsidized housing in a zone reserved for manufacturing businesses pits efforts to reduce the shelter population against hopes of saving industrial New York.

ByNida Najar 0Comments

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Mar 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Who's Afraid of NYU? School's Neighbors Air Gripes

In its push to expand, the school faces residual distrust from earlier development projects. We visited two recent university construction sites to see what it’s like to be NYU’s next-door…

ByChris Giblin 0Comments

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Feb 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Brooklyn's Arena Is Coming. What's Coming Next?

In a matter of months the Nets will be playing ball at the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic, as envisioned more than eight years ago by developer Bruce Ratner. But…

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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Feb 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Nets Arrive, Questions Remain At Atlantic Yards

The Nets are coming to Brooklyn with a 15-man roster and a tip-off in fall 2012. Traffic, jobs, housing and economic activity are coming, too, but no one is sure…

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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Feb 2012

Government Housing and Homelessness

Traffic, Noise & Hope: Atlantic Yards Still Elicits Mixed Views

Opponents of Atlantic Yards feel vindicated by the challenges facing the development. Business owners in the area express a mix of concern and optimism.

ByCandace Amos 0Comments

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Feb 2012

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

Opinions Harden Over Atlantic Yards Housing

The dramatic slow-down in housing construction at the Brooklyn site is fodder for opponents of the project. But supporters believe the development will still make good on its commitments.

ByDarren Sands 0Comments

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Feb 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Brooklyn: A Developing Story

Atlantic Yards may have generated the most heat, but it’s just one of several ambitious development ideas that took shape in the borough over the past decade.

ByJamila Pringle 0Comments

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Oct 2011

Housing and Homelessness

City Spent $1M on Report, Used Questionable Data

A study that says a proposed city living wage law would kill 13,000 jobs based its analysis on a state subsidy program that wouldn’t actually be covered by the city…