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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

Housing and Homelessness

Enthusiasm Seen for Far Rockaway Rezoning Plan

It’s early in the process, and a lot of voices still must be heard, but so far the proposal to rezone the Queens community appears to have received a more…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Aug 2016

Investigations

Community Boards Face Questions Over Demographics

Even as borough presidents have been offering incremental changes, like the appointment of several teenage board members in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, several Council bills to reform term limits…

ByRoshan Abraham 1Comment

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Aug 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Do New York’s Community Boards Need Veto Power?

Recent citywide projects like the mayor’s affordable-housing plan have reignited long-standing critiques of community boards—about the value of their advisory votes and how effective they are at reflecting the will…

ByRoshan Abraham 1Comment

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Jun 2016

Government Housing and Homelessness

City Plans Database to Track Promises Made During Rezonings

The system would document every commitment that gets made. One matter for debate: What exactly constitutes a commitment?

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Jun 2016

Housing and Homelessness Podcasts

Audio: The ‘Architecture of Rupture’ & the Ideology of Private Sky: New York’s New Skyscrapers

A skyscraper is more than just a building. And Manhattan’s new generation of supertall buildings are more than mere skyscrapers. They are an expression, to some, of wealth’s metastasizing supremacy.

ByGuglielmo Mattioli 0Comments

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Apr 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Other Nabes and de Blasio Team Draw Lessons from East New York Rezoning Struggle

As housing justice advocates across the city review the outcomes in East New York, many say the results attest to the power of community organizing, especially when stakeholders put forth…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Mar 2016

Economy In Depth Video

Can De Blasio Save Brooklyn Manufacturing?

After a brutal start to the century, manufacturing is rebounding in Brooklyn. But with competition for space only intensifying, can the new growth last?

ByJarrett Murphy 4Comments

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Nov 2015

Uncategorized

Bronx Beep Holds Hearing on Mayor’s Inclusionary Housing Plan

Read some of the testimony that Ruben Diaz Jr. will hear tonight.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2015

Housing and Homelessness

Protest as City Auctions Land Despite Housing Need

The de Blasio administration says the parcels sold off this week wouldn’t work for affordable housing, but some advocacy groups believe the city is shedding potentially valuable assets. Watch a…

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

Skeptics Say City’s Environmental Studies Understate Damage from Development

Enthusiasm Seen for Far Rockaway Rezoning Plan

Community Boards Face Questions Over Demographics

Do New York’s Community Boards Need Veto Power?

City Plans Database to Track Promises Made During Rezonings

Audio: The ‘Architecture of Rupture’ & the Ideology of Private Sky: New York’s New Skyscrapers

Other Nabes and de Blasio Team Draw Lessons from East New York Rezoning Struggle

Can De Blasio Save Brooklyn Manufacturing?

Bronx Beep Holds Hearing on Mayor’s Inclusionary Housing Plan

Protest as City Auctions Land Despite Housing Need

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