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A plan to build subsidized housing in a zone reserved for manufacturing businesses pits efforts to reduce the shelter population against hopes of saving industrial New York.

ByNida Najar 0Comments

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Feb 2012

Brooklyn's Got Change. Now It Needs Progress.

Detailed data confirm that today’s Brooklyn is different. An inclusive civic infrastructure is what’s needed to turn mere change into real progress.

ByMarilyn Gelber 0Comments

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Feb 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Nets Arrive, Questions Remain At Atlantic Yards

The Nets are coming to Brooklyn with a 15-man roster and a tip-off in fall 2012. Traffic, jobs, housing and economic activity are coming, too, but no one is sure…

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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Feb 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Brooklyn: A Developing Story

Atlantic Yards may have generated the most heat, but it’s just one of several ambitious development ideas that took shape in the borough over the past decade.

ByJamila Pringle 0Comments

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Feb 2012

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

Odds Could Be Against Casino Opponents

In the looming debate over full-scale casino gambling in New York, it will likely be harder for foes to document the proposal’s potential costs than for pro-casino advocates to predict…

ByChris Giblin 0Comments

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Jan 2012

Government Investigations

As City Plants Trees, Benefits—and Some Burdens—Grow

The city’s MillionTrees program fights asthma and global warming. But tightening maintenance budgets, increasingly severe weather and decades-old planting decisions complicate trees’ contribution.

ByPaul Bufano and An Phung 0Comments

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Jan 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Amid Court Fight, Formerly Homeless In Limbo

The end of the Advantage subsidy program leaves advocates battling to salvage a policy they criticized, the city bracing for more demand for scarce shelter beds and low-income families wondering…

ByDaniel Prendergast 0Comments

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Jan 2012

Investigations

Green Cart Vendors Face Diet of Challenges

From competition with other carts and established businesses, to tickets, cold weather and struggles getting and storing their food, a six-month investigation of the Green Cart program reveals room for…