Agenda 2019
Call to Study New Transit Line Linking Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Has the time come for a 20-year-old idea to give outer-borough residents a path to work or home that doesn’t involve a subway through Manhattan?
2021
Max & Murphy: Eric Adams Says Speaker & Comptroller Are Both Wrong on Campaign Finance
Jarrett Murphy |
The beep weighed in on the beef between two of his likely 2021 rivals and also talked about borough jails, NYCHA develpment and the Queens DA’s race. Plus, a look at end-of-session politics in Albany.
2020
Video: Talking Rezonings, Rent Regs, Retail and Running for President
Jarrett Murphy |
City Limits’ editor appeared on BRIC-TVs 112BK to discusses the Gowanus rezoning, combined sewer overflows, the Queens DA race and Bill de Blasio’s run for president, among other things. Somehow, they got on to the topic of ‘mole people.’
Agenda 2019
Special Election Marked a Political Milestone Long in Coming for NYC’s Haitians
Alain Gaillard |
When Farah Louis formally takes office, New York will for the first time have two Haitian-Americans in the City Council—a major milestone for the largest and one of the oldest ex patriate Haitian communities in the world.
Brooklyn
Rezoning Could Bring 18,000 New Residents to Bushwick
Sadef Ali Kully |
The city released a draft scope of its proposed rezoning, which is projected to create 5,600 units of housing.
affordability
Doubts on the Details of the City’s Bushwick Rezoning Proposal
Sadef Ali Kully |
Some are worried proposed height limits leave too much room for developers, or too little room for homeowners who want to sell. Affordability options and a playground project are also on residents’ minds.
Brooklyn
City Presents Rezoning Vision for Bushwick That Breaks From Local Leaders’ Plan
Sadef Ali Kully |
The city’s proposal aims to bring affordable housing, open-space resources, transit improvements, economic development and health assets to the ever-changing Brooklyn neighborhood.
Broadway Junction
Memo Reveals Tensions Over City’s Plans for Broadway Junction
Nick Shaffer |
The memo lists the coalition’s serious concerns regarding the potential displacement of current residents around Broadway Junction, and states that they are opposed to any rezoning of the area.
affordability
Bushwick Awaits City’s Rezoning Proposal
Sadef Ali Kully |
Bushwick residents, elected officials and other stakeholders say they expect the city’s neighborhood rezoning plan—due out Tuesday—to differ from a community-generated vision released last year on the issues of density, the preservation of industrial space and affordability levels for housing.
Mapping the Future
Ever-Shifting Pacific Park Plan Highlights Uncertainty of Big Development Schemes
Norman Oder |
From the Amazon MOU to the BAM site, alluring menus of public benefits are often dangled as the payoff for large subsidies and lucrative development rights. The project formerly known as Atlantic Yards demonstrates that the devil is in the delivery.
