A coalition that has pushed for more affordable housing and local job protections says it was ‘deeply disappointed’ by a scoping document released last week.
The man aiming to stop the city’s practice of reserving half of new affordable apartments for community residents says the policy creates divisions and limits mobility, doubling down on mistakes…
Neighbors and activists have worried for months that the building was a canary in the coal mine—a harbinger of developers taking advantage of out-of-date zoning in their community.
In the quarter-century since a three-day explosion of violence there, steady effort has produced a more cooperative relationship in the neighborhood. Worries about gentrification and displacement now worry both communities.
The challenges of buying a home in New York City, the looming test for community plans in Mayor de Blasio’s rezoning push and the difficulties posed by density as Gotham…
‘No neighbor on Staten Island would close the door of their ‘hood because of the different color of a new neighbor’s skin—those days have long since passed. But people will…
A new report exposes just how hard it is for New Yorkers of modest or even middle-class means to afford a home. It’s a serious problem—but not one that policymakers…
The city’s land-use and environmental review processes are normally obscure parts of the city’s bureaucratic machinery. But in two communities where big rezonings are on the table, they are a…
Discrimination and segregation shaped the existential crisis that faced many Bronx neighborhoods in the 1970s and 1980s. But in the building by building fight for decent conditions, a veteran advocate…