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One couldn’t help but sense some impatience for answers at Thursday night’s first city planning meeting, which launched the de Blasio administration’s study to craft a neighborhood plan for the…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 0Comments

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Fate of Industry Looms Large in Potential Gowanus Rezoning

In the past, neighborhoods like Gowanus have been rezoned to permit residential and industrial to exist in close proximity. Leaders of the ‘Bridging Gowanus’ effort now want to require it.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Podcast: From Coney Island to Atlantic Yards, Lessons of ‘The Brooklyn Wars’

Hear an interview with Neil deMause, whose new book recounts the battles that reshaped Coney Island, Fulton Street, Atlantic Yards and the city around them.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness

City’s Community Boards Play Bigger Role Within Tight Budgets

Funding for the bodies has increased steadily, if slowly, since 1996. But resources are still scarce for the entities that represent the city’s most local level of government.

ByRoshan Abraham 1Comment

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness

City’s East Harlem Plan Tracks Community Blueprint

It’s at an early stage, but the official East Harlem rezoning vision follows the general thrust of a detailed plan produced by community groups and the Council speaker.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness Video

Video: Grassroots Forum on the LIC Rezoning

The meeting aimed to establish some principles that community groups plan to fight for when a rezoning plan is actually proposed. On Monday, October 17, the Justice for All Coalition (a…

ByNicole Javorsky 0Comments

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness Video

Video: De Blasio Admin. Makes East Harlem Rezoning Presentation

Responding to the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, the Department of City Planning presented its long-awaited draft rezoning framework to East Harlem’s community board.

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness

East New York Rezoning, Six Months Later: The Key Council Vote Speaks

Touting community benefits, Councilman Rafael Espinal supported the rezoning of East New York in April. We checked in with him on the impact of the rezoning—and the delivery on promises—so…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 5Comments

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Oct 2016

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

No Rezoning Plan, but City Eyes Brownsville for Big Changes

The de Blasio administration is moving to develop vacant spaces in the Brooklyn neighborhood for a mix of affordable housing and other services—building on earlier plans, engaging the community and…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 1Comment

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Sep 2016

Housing and Homelessness

Chinatown Groups Still Hope City Will Take Up Their Rezoning Plan

More than a year after City Planning rejected their rezoning plan for being too ambitious, Chinatown advocates are hoping the de Blasio administration’s commitment to ‘community-based planning’ will force a…

ByJanaki Chadha 2Comments

City Says it Will Be Guided by ‘Bridging Gowanus’ in Rezoning

Fate of Industry Looms Large in Potential Gowanus Rezoning

Podcast: From Coney Island to Atlantic Yards, Lessons of ‘The Brooklyn Wars’

City’s Community Boards Play Bigger Role Within Tight Budgets

City’s East Harlem Plan Tracks Community Blueprint

Video: Grassroots Forum on the LIC Rezoning

Video: De Blasio Admin. Makes East Harlem Rezoning Presentation

East New York Rezoning, Six Months Later: The Key Council Vote Speaks

No Rezoning Plan, but City Eyes Brownsville for Big Changes

Chinatown Groups Still Hope City Will Take Up Their Rezoning Plan

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