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In a document issued Monday, Councilmember Jennifer Gutiérrez laid out her priorities for any new development that requires changes to the zoning code in one of the city’s most intense…

ByDavid Brand 2Comments

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Oct 2022

Government Health Housing and Homelessness Politics

In Wake of Rezonings, Renewed Call for More Health Facilities on Hospital-Starved Rockaway Peninsula

Residential rezonings, including one approved this summer for Edgemere, are poised to bring thousands of new apartments to the Rockaways over the next decade, but just a single hospital has…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 3Comments

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Aug 2022

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Land Use and Development Politics

‘Innovation QNS’ Plan to Upzone Industrial Astoria on Life Support

The question soon facing the City Council—and in particular, local member Julie Won—is how much affordable housing is enough to replace the Queens industrial scene with a complex three times…

ByDavid Brand 7Comments

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Aug 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

In Bronx Senate Race, Democrats Unite in Opposition to New Affordable Housing

The three Democratic candidates in the 34th Senate District find common ground in opposing a proposed supportive housing site for critically ill former Rikers detainees on the campus of Jacobi…

ByDavid Brand 3Comments

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Aug 2022

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

East New York Families in Limbo as Developer Plans High Rise to Replace Crumbling Housing Complex

Just six units remain occupied at the Arlington Village complex. Now, those who remain worry about what the owners’ plan to develop the site will mean for them. “What exists…

ByDavid Brand

ByGeorge Joseph, THE CITY 6Comments

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Feb 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

District Managers Call on NYC to Boost Budgets for Community Boards

“Community Boards are currently being asked to do more with less,” wrote a task force of district managers and administrative staffers in a report released last month. “Especially in the…

ByDavid Brand 8Comments

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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 3Comments

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Dec 2021

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

Newly-Approved SoHo Rezoning Promises Affordable Homes. How Much Will they Really Cost?

While developers will seriously benefit from a chance to build market-rate apartments in one of the city’s most coveted zip codes, the de Blasio administration says the new construction will…

ByDavid Brand 2Comments

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Nov 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Gowanus Rezoning Shows How We Can Plan Together For a Fairer NYC

‘This plan did not start in a developer’s office, or at City Hall. It started through community planning, a series of public conversations that generated core principles for what inclusive,…

ByMichelle de la Uz

ByBrad Lander 8Comments

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Nov 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness

NYC Council Approves de Blasio’s Massive Gowanus Rezoning

“This is the biggest rezoning this administration has done over our eight years,” the mayor said ahead of Tuesday’s vote on the plan, which will upzone an 82-block swath of…

ByDavid Brand 4Comments

Building in Bushwick? Councilmember Lays Out Priorities for Rezonings

In Wake of Rezonings, Renewed Call for More Health Facilities on Hospital-Starved Rockaway Peninsula

‘Innovation QNS’ Plan to Upzone Industrial Astoria on Life Support

In Bronx Senate Race, Democrats Unite in Opposition to New Affordable Housing

East New York Families in Limbo as Developer Plans High Rise to Replace Crumbling Housing Complex

District Managers Call on NYC to Boost Budgets for Community Boards

Newly-Approved SoHo Rezoning Promises Affordable Homes. How Much Will they Really Cost?

Opinion: Gowanus Rezoning Shows How We Can Plan Together For a Fairer NYC

NYC Council Approves de Blasio’s Massive Gowanus Rezoning

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