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…
The Economic Development Corporation seems to have slowed down the process for rezoning the northern Manhattan neighborhood amid a complex mix of support and skepticism among local residents.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
It’s unclear how closely the city’s rezoning proposal will follow the most detailed community-based plan to emerge during the two-plus years of the de Blasio administration’s housing push.
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…