Within a few months this fall, the city announced two separate plans to redevelop the abandoned Greenpoint Hospital site, and across the street, a parking lot owned by the city’s…
The city’s rezoning plan has critics aplenty–the supporters of a separate ‘neighborhood plan,’ their partners who want to press beyond that plan, and several groups who want to see no…
The Department of City Planning hosts a two-part meeting on the draft scope of work for the environmental impact study for the proposed rezoning of East Harlem.
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Depending on how you look at it, a proposed rezoning could either be a necessary precaution against displacement or a catalyst for rent increases in existing buildings.
The limited scope, curious criteria and advisory nature of those studies has some community advocates worried the city will miss the problems Mayor de Blasio’s zoning changes could cause.
New York City’s discussion of zoning, housing and displacement tends to occur in broad strokes. A coalition of Bronx groups wants to dial into the details in an unprecedented way.
