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The City Planning Commission approved a plan Wednesday to rezone a 54-block swath of the Queens waterfront neighborhood, to spur an estimated 15,000 new apartments over the next decade. Take…

ByAdi Talwar

ByJeanmarie Evelly 2Comments

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Jul 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion Politics

Opinion: Mayor’s City of Yes is Really a ‘City of Cake’

“If Mayor Adams is serious about addressing the affordability crisis, he should direct his city agencies to use planning tools to slow land speculation, tax warehoused property and pied-à-terres, and…

ByTom Angotti

ByJenny Dubnau

ByMemo Salazar 1Comment

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Feb 2024

Health Housing and Homelessness

From the Archives: Queens’ Billion-Dollar View, 1985

City Limits looks back at a story from its March 1985 issue exploring early development plans for the Hunters Point waterfront, at the time home to just 5,000 residents—what the…

ByChris Janaro 0Comments

25

Apr 2018

ARTS and CULTURE In Depth

Art at the Limits: City Gallery of New York

Check out the vibrant images and experiences that make up this amazing city.

ByCity Limits 1Comment

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Apr 2018

Housing and Homelessness News

Map: Near Potential Long Island City Rezoning, Fate of Waterfront Draws Concern

While the Long Island City rezoning study has been moving slowly, there have been controversial developments both west and east of the study area.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Dec 2017

News

A New Year’s Update on the de Blasio Rezonings

We start 2018 with three rezonings approved and many more in the pipeline at various stages.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Oct 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

Van Bramer Says He’ll Listen to Public Housing Residents on Rezonings

At the Justice for All coalition meeting, the Majority Leader argued that the decisions are still a ways off, but that he would be accountable to the concerns of low-income…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Aug 2017

Opinion

CityViews: We Have to Talk About Gentrification in Long Island City

Over the past decade, Long Island City has experienced drastic transformation, sprouting up residential towers that rival Manhattan. But who is driving that process? And do they have the public…

ByEla LoBrutto 5Comments

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Aug 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

Frustration and Concerns Voiced at Long Island City Rezoning Workshop

Some participants took issue with the Department of City Planning’s argument that without a rezoning, the neighborhood won’t get affordable housing.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 8Comments

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Jun 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

Queens Advocates See Triple Threat: LIC Rezoning, BQX Streetcar, Sunnyside Yards Plan

In Western Queens, some residents are concerned that the city’s plans to build affordable housing, improve transit access and increase development will instead be a recipe for displacement.

ByAmelia Spittal 4Comments

PHOTO ESSAY: These 54 Blocks of Long Island City Are Poised for a Major Rezoning

Opinion: Mayor’s City of Yes is Really a ‘City of Cake’

From the Archives: Queens’ Billion-Dollar View, 1985

Art at the Limits: City Gallery of New York

Map: Near Potential Long Island City Rezoning, Fate of Waterfront Draws Concern

A New Year’s Update on the de Blasio Rezonings

Van Bramer Says He’ll Listen to Public Housing Residents on Rezonings

CityViews: We Have to Talk About Gentrification in Long Island City

Frustration and Concerns Voiced at Long Island City Rezoning Workshop

Queens Advocates See Triple Threat: LIC Rezoning, BQX Streetcar, Sunnyside Yards Plan

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