‘Before this happens again, all the elected officials, school teachers, journalists, priests, ministers and rabbis should look in the mirror, and assume the responsibility for human life we have been reluctant to embrace.’
‘Real-estate interests and a hired-gun lobbyist are part of the discussion to take the site away from the proposed Bronx animal shelter.’
The administration’s first neighborhood rezoning in the Bronx and its fourth overall was unanimously approved by the Council after protesters were removed from the chamber.
‘No matter how many luxury towers are built in Mott Haven they will always be outnumbered by the low-income and supportive housing that is already in the area.’
From matters of affordability to school overcrowding, much remains subject to ongoing negotiation between the Council and the administration.
The Bronx borough president makes the case for a revised version of the de Blasio administration’s proposed Jerome Avenue rezoning.
El futuro plan para la avenida Jerome representa una tremenda oportunidad con un potencial de trasformación no solo para los vecindarios circundantes, sino también para todo el Bronx.
Our free print newsletter on the Jerome Avenue rezoning proposal as the debate enters its final chapter. Read. Download. Print. Impress your friends.
The De Blasio administration’s fourth neighborhood rezoning—and the first for the Bronx—is moving to the final stages of the approval process.
Elvin Garcia did not get the City Council seat for which he ran. But, as he writes in this op-ed, he did gain a new respect for the people of the Bronx, for the capacity of established leaders to change and for the need to reform New York’s voting system.
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