City Planning officials will present details Thursday on the rezoning proposal to Brooklyn Community Board 6, after the city’s ULURP process was paused for several months during the pandemic.
October 22, 2020 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2020/10/22/city-restarts-discussions-for-gowanus-rezoning-plan/Mayor de Blasio’s initiative to build or preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing seems to be on track. But is it on target?
September 22, 2020 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2020/09/22/amid-covid-and-fiscal-woes-mayors-housing-plan-enters-stretch-run/To get a better sense of what was seen around the city last week, City Limits surveyed all the city’s 59 community boards to ask what violent unrest—and peaceful protest—they had seen.
June 9, 2020 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2020/06/09/how-widespread-was-violence-on-new-yorks-nights-of-unrest/In New York, the visiting samurais were so popular that there were theater performances and songs about them, samurai-inspired merchandise was being sold, and a cocktail named “Japanese” was born. Renowned American poet Walt Whitman even wrote a poem about the visit.
January 23, 2020 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2020/01/23/samurais-on-broadway-recounting-the-first-japanese-mission-to-the-u-s-160-years-later/Nearly four years after it was created, with the city having started construction on more than 43,000 housing units under the mayor’s housing plan, only some 2,000 units have been created through the MIH requirement.
January 16, 2020 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2020/01/16/report-sees-de-blasios-mandatory-inclusionary-housing-falling-short/Community leaders attribute the decline to the trade war between the U.S. and China.
January 6, 2020 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2020/01/06/chinatown-gift-shops-report-declining-business-in-2019/El área de Southern Boulevard acaba de completar un estudio que podría conducir a una rezonificación. Mientras tanto, un auge de desarrollo liderado por la ciudad —y el mercado— predomina en el sur del Bronx.
December 23, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/12/23/la-que-podria-ser-la-ultima-rezonificacion-de-la-administracion-de-de-blasio-influencia-local-y-puntos-de-vista-conflictivos/The area around Southern Boulevard has already secured a lot of the kinds of infrastructure investments that usually come with a rezoning.
December 13, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/12/13/in-what-could-be-the-last-de-blasio-rezoning-theres-local-leverage-and-conflicting-views/Speaker Johnson’s office says the Council is working to tweak the decades-old Small Business Jobs Survival Act. But advocates are frustrated and fear ‘a completely different watered down version’ of SBJSA is what will pass.
October 11, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/10/11/council-bill-on-commercial-leases-in-limbo-as-evidence-of-vacancy-problem-grows/Mayor de Blasio’s plan to build 90 new homeless shelters around the city has encountered fierce opposition in several neighborhoods. Opponents in different communities point to different reasons for resisting new shelters. Some cite the question of ‘fair share.’
September 10, 2019 https://citylimits.flywheelstaging.com/2019/09/10/data-drop-which-nyc-neighborhoods-host-the-most-homeless-shelter-beds/
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