This lot in East New York will soon become a six-story, 176-unit residential and community facility–a boost for low-income families, but a potential challenge to manufacturers in the area.
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.
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