Ruben Diaz, Jr. believes new affordable housing must serve people with relatively high incomes—not to attract that crowd, but to keep them from leaving.
Like the former mayor, Bill de Blasio faces a housing crisis and a stingy federal government. But the current occupant of City Hall also confronts steeper expectations in a city…
Almost any discussion of housing in Bushwick tends to begin with July 13, 1977. That night, the blackout that hit New York City sparked widespread looting along Broadway