Those who ran in a special election for a Harlem Council seat—some of whom plan to run again in November—expressed a range of hopes and worries about a proposed rezoning that falls partly in that district.
A fifth of apartments at the 111th street project will be for families making below $24,480, and one fourth of units will be permanently rent-restricted.
A new CB11 task force will take the lead on responding to the city’s rezoning plan, which has supporters and critics.
The city’s rezoning plan has critics aplenty–the supporters of a separate ‘neighborhood plan,’ their partners who want to press beyond that plan, and several groups who want to see no rezoning at all.
Community Board 3 is now trying to decide whether to give their blessings to the administration’s offer to conduct a rezoning study that omits the broader neighborhood.
The Department of City Planning discusses its draft rezoning framework for East Harlem.
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.
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.
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 reconsideration.
A growing base of Chinese voters creates a chance for an ethnic first in the contest for a Lower Manhattan Assembly seat. But with three Chinese candidates in the race, the community’s strength could be split.
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