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East Harlem Neighborhood Plan participants said it was disappointingly vague, and others said it won’t be enough to counter rezoning displacement pressures.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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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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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

East Harlem Stakeholders Plan Push Back on Elements of De Blasio Administration Plan

Affordable housing, tenant protections and lesser density increases are among the demands that a community coalition plans to present to city planners.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

Official Review Begins of De Blasio’s 3rd Neighborhood Rezoning: East Harlem

The plan’s complexity impressed some planning commissioners. But no effort was made to accommodate the community concerns that greeted an earlier draft.

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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Mar 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Slated for Rezoning, East Harlem Considers Wave of Other Development Proposals

New schools, parks, buildings and sanitation garages are in the offing.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Mar 2017

Housing and Homelessness

African Burial Ground Project Will Have Some Units for Extremely Low Income Families

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.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Feb 2017

Government Housing and Homelessness

Harlem Pols Say They’ll Get Tough on Rezoning, Affordability Concerns

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…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Nov 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Dueling Protests at Meeting on East Harlem Rezoning

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…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Nov 2016

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