Development
Can Downtown Far Rockaway Model Development Without Displacement?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Six months after the passage of the Downtown Far Rockaway rezoning, long-dormant real-estate forces are rapidly cranking up.
Affordable Housing
CityViews: New Data Makes Clear That NYC Needs Even More Affordable Housing
Jolie Milstein |
The latest data shows that the city has accomplished much already – but that more needs to be done to ensure that everyone who wishes to call our great city home can afford to do so.
Mapping the Future
4 Months After Rezoning, East Harlem Stakeholders Remain Vigilant
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Some advocates are now focused on the plan’s implementation, some on making it better and others on suing the city.
community board
On Inwood Rezoning, Community Board Committee Adopts Many Residents’ Demands
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
Manhattan Community Board 12’s executive committee passed a resolution calling for changes to the de Blasio administration’s proposed rezoning.
Bronx
Bronx Coalition on Jerome Ave Rezoning Deal: ‘Unacceptable’
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
A coalition of Bronx stakeholders say the rezoning and investment package passed by the City Council Land Use Committee still fails to address many of their concerns.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: New York’s EDC Prez Reacts to Fears About Tech’s Impact on the City
James Patchett |
In a letter to the editor, NYCEDC chief James Patchett responds to a CityViews op-ed that sounded alarms over the prospect of New York becoming Silicon Valley East.
Affordable Housing
Bronx Church Loses Property it Saved from Vacancy but Never Developed
Ahmed Jallow |
HPD has awarded a bid to a Massachusetts developer to create 169 units of affordable housing on the site in Mott Haven.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: Residents, Not Investors, Revitalized Mott Haven. Displacement, Not Progress, is What They Fear
Ed García Conde |
‘Revitalization began decades ago through community based groups throughout the South Bronx even as the fires still continued to burn.’
Bronx
CityViews: Revitalization, Not Gentrification, is What’s Coming to Mott Haven
Jonathan Marin |
‘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.’
Development
The Big Empty: Stringer & City Argue Over Math of Vacant Lots
Greis Torres |
The comptroller says tens of thousands of units of affordable housing could be built on land the city controls. But HPD says that’s a hollow argument.
