Affordable housing, tenant protections and lesser density increases are among the demands that a community coalition plans to present to city planners.
The plan’s complexity impressed some planning commissioners. But no effort was made to accommodate the community concerns that greeted an earlier draft.
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.’
New schools, parks, buildings and sanitation garages are in the offing.
The city has announced that at least 50 percent of apartments will be rent-restricted, and 20 percent will be for families making below $24,480.
Those who ran in a special election for a Harlem Council seat—some of whom plan to run again in November—expressed a range of hopes and worries about a proposed rezoning that falls partly in that district.
A group that helped draft the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan pushed for the city’s rezoning scheme to offer more housing to low-income people. A group that opposes any rezoning denounced both proposals.
The Department of City Planning discusses its draft rezoning framework for East Harlem.
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.
The MTA is relocating its bus depot at East 126th Street so the city can create a memorial honoring the history of an African burial ground formerly located at the site. But the full plan calls for much more than a memorial.
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