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Stand-Up Desk Video: Caroline Nagy on the Ongoing Foreclosure Crisis
Jarrett Murphy |
Not that foreclosure is the only thing city homeowners, or policymakers, have to worry about.
Not that foreclosure is the only thing city homeowners, or policymakers, have to worry about.
In Western Queens, some residents are concerned that the city’s plans to build affordable housing, improve transit access and increase development will instead be a recipe for displacement.
Some residents are concerned that they amount of affordable housing will make it hard for businesses to find the customers they need. Others want city-owned land handed to local farmers, not developers.
When most New Yorkers hear about cuts to the National Parks Service, they think about Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, not the wetlands around Cross Bay Boulevard on the way to the Rockaways or the beach on top of a landfill behind the tollbooths on the Marine Park Bridge.
Wolff-Alport is one of three federally designated Superfund sites in New York City, but unlike the other two, the EPA has yet to find a responsible party who can pay for this cleanup.
At eight o’clock the night before Melinda Katz’s hearing, the de Blasio administration announced changes to the rezoning.
When Queens Community Board 14 heard public testimony, they got an earful. Here are just a few highlights.
Call for lower height limits on new buildings, new infrastructure and affordable housing that favors moderate incomes.
Residents of public housing near the area likely to be rezoned are worried that their community will not benefit from the jobs and housing created by the redevelopment.
Board members like some aspects of the city’s proposed rezoning of downtown Far Rockaway, but have concerns ranging from the impact of additional density on neighborhood infrastructure to a lack of clear labor standards.