Hoping to broaden an issue that often is targeted only to residents of the five boroughs, the Democratic challenger proposed expanding the number of stabilized apartments statewide.
Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez’s community meeting on Sunday came midway through the public review procedure through which the Inwood rezoning will be approved or disproved.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer held a hearing April 10 on the de Blasio administration’s proposed rezoning in Inwood, a key step in the land-use approval process. Watch the video!
The report interrogates the meaning of integration in a gentrifying city and sets out 12 policy recommendations related to housing, schools and infrastructure.
There is a $15 million allocation for rental subsidies and a modest allocation for NYCHA, but also language on state oversight that concerns some advocates.
‘At worst, the developer’s pitch had all the elegance of a ransom note during a hostage-taking: Give us what we want … or we’ll do something you want even less.’
The administration’s first neighborhood rezoning in the Bronx and its fourth overall was unanimously approved by the Council after protesters were removed from the chamber.
