Adi Talwar
March 24, 2019: A view of Jerome Avenue with its elevated 4 train and the Cross Bronx Expressway from the Grand Concourse.
The Jerome Avenue rezoning deal included the formation of a task force on local health issues. The public has been identifying its top concerns, some of which relate to the very development the rezoning is bringing.
The witness spoke through a Spanish interpreter. The defendant was a management company. The crime: a major capital improvement (MCI) at a rent-stabilized building in the Bronx.
After a landmark series of wins in 2019, groups advocating for low-income tenants and the homeless are looking to tighten rent-regulations further and create new paths from shelters to homes.
This year, the City Council’s focus will be on a range of bills aimed at eradicating lead poisoning and addressing the needs of the city’s homeless population, among other housing and land-use concerns.
Housing units for extremely low- income households are not being preserved or created in line with the level of need in the city, the report from ANHD found.
Speaker Johnson’s office says the Council is working to tweak the decades-old Small Business Jobs Survival Act. But advocates are frustrated and fear ‘a completely different watered down version’ of SBJSA is what will pass.
A key sticking point in the debate over the proposal is the proposed new treatment of land that had been zoned for heavy industrial uses. That’s a concern in other development hubs around the city as well.
Tenants of a rent-stabilized building testified in Brooklyn housing court after filing a lawsuit against their landlord and the city’s housing department over what they allege were a lack of repairs and enforcement that has prevented them from returning home since an August 2018 fire.
A new building that will generate funds to support Brooklyn Bridge Park could have been all luxury rentals, but instead will set aside a majority of its apartments for specific income groups. But some of those units will serve relatively affluent New Yorkers. So is this a minor victory, or another loss, for affordability in NYC?
Inwood’s rhythms and feel seem unchanged a year after the rezoning. But physical changes are underway, with more to come.
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