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It’s at an early stage, but the official East Harlem rezoning vision follows the general thrust of a detailed plan produced by community groups and the Council speaker.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Awaiting a City Plan, LIC Groups Sketch Out Red Lines Around Rezoning

A coalition is hoping the anticipated rezoning of the Queens rezoning will include deep affordability and labor provisions.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness Video

Video: De Blasio Admin. Makes East Harlem Rezoning Presentation

Responding to the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, the Department of City Planning presented its long-awaited draft rezoning framework to East Harlem’s community board.

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

No Rezoning Plan, but City Eyes Brownsville for Big Changes

The de Blasio administration is moving to develop vacant spaces in the Brooklyn neighborhood for a mix of affordable housing and other services—building on earlier plans, engaging the community and…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Fate of Council Speaker’s East Harlem Plan Uncertain

It’s unclear how closely the city’s rezoning proposal will follow the most detailed community-based plan to emerge during the two-plus years of the de Blasio administration’s housing push.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Oct 2016

Health Opinion

Building Justice: Genetic Code, ZIP Code and Housing Code All Affect Health and Equality

Health outcomes–and things that depend on them like school performance–are shaped by housing quality. Housing quality is shaped by segregation. And segregation reflects policies that separated Americans by race.

ByAmanda Reddy

ByDavid Jacobs 2Comments

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Sep 2016

Housing and Homelessness

First Official Hearing on Jerome Avenue Rezoning Attracts List of Demands

Community groups pressed for deeper housing affordability and protections for workers. Other voices stressed different priorities.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Sep 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Some Question Bid to Combine Burial-Ground Memorial with Mixed-Use Development

The MTA is relocating its bus depot at East 126th Street so the city can create a memorial honoring the history of an African burial ground formerly located at the…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Sep 2016

Housing and Homelessness Investigations

Skeptics Say City’s Environmental Studies Understate Damage from Development

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.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 6Comments

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Sep 2016

Opinion