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.
In many neighborhoods facing rezoning, the concern is that too few low-income units will be required. Some Far Rockaways community board members are worried that an influx of poor people will harm the local economy.
‘We know we don’t always get it right and in part that’s why we’re here tonight,’ one city planning official told the first official meeting on a potential rezoning of Long Island City.
Amid far less rancor than greeted the mayor’s first rezoning in East New York, the City Planning Commission certified the Downtown Far Rockaway proposal, starting the ULURP clock.
There were more stops last year in the 106th precinct than anywhere else in New York City. While stops have fallen 88 percent citywide, they’re down by less than 50 percent in this quiet residential community in South Central Queens.
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