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“Now this community is gentrified with condominiums that are coming up from all over…We’re the forgotten ones,” said Miguel Acevedo, the tenant association president at NYCHA’s Fulton Houses for the…

ByTatyana Turner 0Comments

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Jan 2025

Meet Your Tenant Leader: Jackie Lara, NYCHA’s Fulton Houses

Lara, who’s lived at the Fulton Houses for 22 years, is among those fighting NYCHA’s plan to demolish and rebuild the campus and neighboring Elliott-Chelsea Houses. “I don’t need a…

ByTatyana Turner 0Comments

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Oct 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development NYCHA

NYCHA Board Green Lights Plan to Demolish & Rebuild Lower Manhattan Developments

Members of the housing authority’s board approved an agreement Wednesday that brings the razing and rebuilding of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses closer to fruition, and kicks off a plan to…

ByTatyana Turner 2Comments

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Oct 2023

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations NYCHA

As Chelsea Demo Plans Move Ahead, A Look Back to NYCHA’s Brooklyn Razing

There are several key differences between PACT and Hope VI, the now-defunct federal program that facilitated demolition and displacement in Brooklyn decades ago. But, despite contemporary safeguards, advocates say they’ll…

ByTatyana Turner 3Comments

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Mar 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations Land Use and Development

Hudson Yards Calls Itself a Model Neighborhood for Energy Efficiency. City Data Paints a Different Picture

Hudson Yards promised to be one of the most efficient sustainable neighborhoods in the U.S. But public energy consumption data tracked by the city shows many green-certified properties in the…

ByMariana Simões 3Comments

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Jan 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations Politics

What Ever Happened to CBAs? The Rise and Fall of ‘Community Benefits Agreements’ in NYC

Once a seemingly promising structure to ensure that real estate groups don’t run roughshod over local neighborhoods in development deals—and still a common practice in other cities—CBAs are now disdained…

ByNeil deMause 2Comments

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Aug 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness News

NYC2036? How the 2012 Olympics Bid Reshaped New York City

A look at how New York’s failed efforts to host the world’s biggest sporting event succeeded in reshaping huge swaths of the city, from Hunters Point to Citi Field. …

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

Meet Your Tenant Leader: Miguel Acevedo, NYCHA’s Fulton Houses