Technically, the proposed rezoning of this northern Manhattan neighborhood is about redrawing lines on a map. Here’s what that map looks like, today, on the ground.
The administration says it’s providing additional services to support small businesses, but Inwood businesses argue the current rezoning proposal would trigger displacement.
The proposed Inwood rezoning has officially entered the seven-month public review process known as the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) through which a rezoning is approved or disapproved. Read…
On Tuesday, Mayor de Blasio’s fifth neighborhood rezoning entered the seven-month process through which a rezoning can be approved—but not without strong pushback from neighborhood groups in Inwood.
‘To racialize community concerns about the future is to create a toxic straw horse. It will divert residents’ attention from fighting against the social and economic violence that accompanies gentrification.…