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In the latest bid to prevent the construction of skyscrapers in Two Bridges, some advocates and residents are seeking to rezone a portion of the waterfront to require lower heights…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Sep 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

All Hands On Deck to Stop Two Bridges Towers in Lower East Side

Community groups and elected officials are trying a variety of means to halt the possibly imminent approval of the proposed Two Bridges skyscrapers—but they don’t all trust each other’s longer…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 5Comments

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Jul 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

Local Electeds, Stakeholders Demand City Planning Commission Halt Two Bridges Developments

Councilmember Margaret Chin and other elected officials made another call for a full public review of the developments proposed for the Lower East Side waterfront, but some opposing council candidates…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 4Comments

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Apr 2017

Opinion

CityViews: Now More Than Ever, the Lower East Side Needs a Community-Led Rezoning

‘There is an assumption that wealth is an answer to our housing crisis. Instead, we must recognize that wealth and exploitation are actually the root of our crisis.’

ByCathy Dang

ByMelanie Wang 5Comments

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Read our ZoneIn Newsletter on Two Bridges Development and the LES Rezoning Debate

Info in English, Spanish and simplified and traditional Chinese.

ByCity Limits 0Comments

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Apr 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Growth Fears Fuel Effort to Protect Chinatown. Now, Where Exactly is Chinatown?

Local representatives are beginning the long-awaited move to define just what area of lower Manhattan might be covered by a “Chinatown” rezoning that the de Blasio administration has said it…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Dec 2016

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Board Moves Toward a Yes—With Misgivings—to de Blasio Administration on Chinatown Rezoning

Community Board 3 is now trying to decide whether to give their blessings to the administration’s offer to conduct a rezoning study that omits the broader neighborhood.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Aug 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Illegal Hotels Survive Crackdown, Some Say

Fifteen months after a move to strengthen enforcement against unauthorized rentals, the number of citations is up, but complaints continue. Some say the fines are too low. Others believe the…

ByIrina Ivanova 0Comments

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Feb 2012

ARTS and CULTURE Justice

Brooklyn Edges: LGBT Youth Relive Life's Drama On Stage

A theater organization has LGBT youth play the roles of people who spurned them, giving the actors a chance to write their own next act.

ByJulie Turkewitz 0Comments

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Dec 2011

Economy

Displaced Shopkeepers: Rents Still a Problem

Yaakov “Jack” Fuzailov, a barber, has twice been displaced since the 2004 rezoning—once for development of a building that was never built, and a second time by a landlord seeking…

ByNeil deMause 1Comment

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