Economy
Queens Radio Show Aims to Help Day Laborers Avoid Death or Injury on the Job
Leila Miller |
Sin Fronteras’ offers advice on a delicate topic for the Latino immigrant community: the exploitation and mistreatment of undocumented laborers.
community planning
Awaiting a City Plan, LIC Groups Sketch Out Red Lines Around Rezoning
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
A coalition is hoping the anticipated rezoning of the Queens rezoning will include deep affordability and labor provisions.
Housing and Homelessness
Some Confusion over Prospect of Eminent Domain in Rockaways
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The city could use its seizure powers to facilitate the redevelopment of Far Rockaway. But a law firm’s promotional material has alarmed many property owners who are not even potential targets, the city says.
City Council
Enthusiasm Seen for Far Rockaway Rezoning Plan
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
It’s early in the process, and a lot of voices still must be heard, but so far the proposal to rezone the Queens community appears to have received a more positive reaction than any previous de Blasio planning initiative.
Health and Environment
Video: Fish Jump, Barges Work and Beauty Survives on Newtown Creek
Guglielmo Mattioli |
It is one of the most polluted waterways in the country. It’s at the crux of efforts to restore health and improve access to New York’s waterways. And from the vantage point of a small motorboat, Newtown Creek somehow manages to be beautiful.
Health and Environment
Cleaner Creeks and Bays, But How Will New Yorkers Access the Waters They Own?
Guglielmo Mattioli |
Along Newtown Creek and Jamaica Bay, decades of work are slowly restoring neglected waterways. Now comes a new challenge: Making sure New Yorkers can use those liquid assets in harmony with industry and nature.
Art at the Limits
After 5 Pointz: Street Art Thrives and Evolves in Uneasy Dance with Development
Chris Giblin |
A developer’s move to close the famous graffiti site in 2013 didn’t kill the street-art scene. It did raise questions about the links and tensions between street art and gentrification.
Housing and Homelessness
Past Rezonings Shape Long Island City’s Feelings About De Blasio Plan
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
More so than any of the other areas tabbed so far for rezonings under the mayor’s housing plan, LIC has dealt with the effects—good and bad—of Bloomberg-era land-use moves.
Housing and Homelessness
City Says Flushing Rezoning is ‘Paused,’ Not Dead; Some Investments Still on Track
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
It’s unclear what the withdrawal of the city’s Flushing West rezoning proposal means for other neighborhoods.
Affordable Housing
Has Developers’ Wish-List Shaped Queens Rezoning Plan?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
That plan for Flushing mapped out by a business group later accused of unethical activity—did that merely set the stage or does it call the tune for the pending city proposal?
