During its first phase in The Bronx, NYC Care reached its goal of 10,000 enrollments two months before its deadline. The city expects to offer coverage across the five boroughs by the end of 2020.
The Bushwick rezoning has come to a standstill with the de Blasio administration and Bushwick stakeholders at odds with each other over competing visions for how to channel development in the Brooklyn neighborhood.
Two Councilmembers and other players want the city to include the Bushwick Community Plan in the environmental impact study, so it can be weighed as an option alongside the mayor’s rezoning plan.
The city says its environmental review is coming, but won’t say exactly when. A community board is demanding a meeting with City Planning, and an activist group is hounding two Councilmembers.
A number of recent studies stating that Mexican migration to the U.S. is showing clear signs of deceleration, a trend that’s being detected in immigrant-rich New York neighborhoods like Sunset Park, El Diario reports.
As large real-estate deals continue to close, neighborhood stakeholders have raised some unresolved concerns.
Summers are going to get hotter, and heat waves more common, longer and more extreme, exacerbating what is already the deadliest weather-related risk to life and health in the United States. Is New York City ready? A special video report.
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?
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