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Residents want to ensure the development around Broadway Junction results in good jobs and amenities for local residents without exacerbating displacement.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Apr 2018

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development News

Worries About Whether City is Keeping Tabs on Development in East New York

The city says it’s committed to maximizing the creation of affordable housing in East New York, but local advocates wonder whether its efforts are sufficient.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 4Comments

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Dec 2017

News

A New Year’s Update on the de Blasio Rezonings

We start 2018 with three rezonings approved and many more in the pipeline at various stages.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Oct 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

Displaced to Where? New Report Shows Moving Patterns of Some East New York Homeowners

The Center for NYC Neighborhoods looked at factors increasing the vulnerability of East New York homeowners to displacement—and tracked where they go if they lose their homes.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 4Comments

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Aug 2017

Government

District Data: Dynastic District 42 Votes After Big Rezoning Next Door

Inez Barron and her husband switched seats in the city and state legislatures ahead of the de Blasio administration’s push to engineer its first neighborhood-wide rezoning in East New York.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jul 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

Investors Move Quietly in East New York Amid de Blasio’s Housing Construction

As the city predicted when the area was rezoned, most building going on now is for rent-regulated or ‘affordable housing.’ But there are signs that private movers and shakers are…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 8Comments

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Jun 2017

Housing and Homelessness

City Takes First Step to Transform East New York Transit Hub

Long-neglected Broadway Junction may finally get a makeover, but many details of the potential revitalization remain undetermined.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Jun 2017

Housing and Homelessness Video

Stand-Up Desk: Rafael Espinal Discusses the Lessons of East New York’s Rezoning

The Brooklyn Democrat says it’s ‘too early to say’ that the 2016 rezoning has improved life for low- and moderate-income East New Yorkers but believes the city’s investments will make…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jun 2017

Housing and Homelessness Video