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Home prices in the predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood began to tick up before then-Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to rezone 190 blocks in 2014. But affordable housing advocates…

ByDavid Brand 6Comments

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Jul 2021

Housing and Homelessness Transportation

Bronx Residents—And a Developer—Weigh in on What Future Metro-North Stations Might Bring

The MTA will add four new Metro North stations to the East Bronx as part of its Penn Station Access Initiative. The Department of City Planning is researching the best…

ByGriffin Kelly 10Comments

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Jun 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness

Council Votes to Make Racial Impact Studies Part of NYC Land Use Process

Residents of low- to middle-income communities of color have resisted various neighborhood-level land use applications which they say will fuel gentrification and increase rents.

ByDavid Brand 6Comments

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Feb 2020

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Hopes for Improving Anti-Redlining Law Take a Backseat to Saving It

The CRA, a crucial but flawed tool intended to give communities leverage over banks, is up for reform—and though community advocates have long advocated for substantive changes to the law,…

ByEmily Lever 1Comment

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Jan 2020

Housing and Homelessness Podcasts Uncategorized

Listen: Gentrification’s Winners, Losers and Questions

Three experts on neighborhood change discuss what the G word has meant for New York City, its neighborhoods and their people.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Nov 2019

ARTS and CULTURE Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Books: When Gentrification Came to Greenpoint

In an excerpt from a new book, Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents, an up-close look at one tenant-landlord dispute shows what’s really happening around the city.

ByMatthew Schuerman 0Comments

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Aug 2019

Economy Housing and Homelessness

Many Reasons Drive City’s Storefront Vacancies, Report Says

A Department of City Planning report that examined 24 commercial neighborhoods across the five boroughs found a small increase in storefront vacancies over the last decade — but says the…

BySadef Ali Kully 2Comments

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Aug 2019

Justice

Crime and Punishment Have Both Plummeted in Bushwick

In the 83rd precinct that covers Bushwick, there were 77 murders in 1990, 44 in 1993 and 20 as recently as 2004. Last year, there were eight. This year the…

ByJarrett Murphy 3Comments

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Aug 2019

Housing and Homelessness