Unlike other neighborhoods slated for a rezoning, the city’s Economic Development Corporation is taking the lead in planning a new future for this chunk on northern Manhattan.
The area’s improvement—thanks to community action and city policy—is undeniable. What’s debated is whether the same displacement seen in Bed-Stuy and Bushwick is headed that way.
Residents are divided over whether tweaks to the high-intensity policing program are cause for concern or celebration.
As the Atlantic Yards project slowly moves toward implementing the community benefits agreement that secured its approval, a lottery will be held for 10 events, sponsored by nonprofit groups, in arena spaces.
Advocates who fault the court’s facilities and lack of right to counsel found it guilty on all counts in a hearing at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
In November residents extracted a promise from the authority to deal with a massive maintenance backlog. Some 75 percent of those tasks are done. But the list of things to fix is still growing.
One aspect of the hospital crisis is that city hospitals exist not just to treat illness, but to protect vulnerable people from violence, homelessness and other threats.
After being torn down for a redevelopment that proved too pricey to complete, Prospect Plaza is being replaced by a mix of public- and affordable housing. The metrics of that mix are still being worked out.
In the struggle to hold on to their places in neighborhoods where rents are rising rapidly, a group in Crown Heights is hoping there’s strength in numbers.
Hundreds of apartments covered by Section 8—key anchors in a neighborhood where affordability is threatened by gentrification—are slated to leave the program.
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