A report, produced by over 40 organizations, elaborates on critiques of the de Blasio administration’s neighborhood rezoning efforts and proposes a set of citywide reforms.
Within a few months this fall, the city announced two separate plans to redevelop the abandoned Greenpoint Hospital site, and across the street, a parking lot owned by the city’s public housing authority—for a total around 750 new apartments within a two-block radius.
Large and small organizations have envisioned ways that, with the right resources and city policies, the city’s nascent community land trusts could come to encompass thousands of apartments.
The outcomes so far seem promising, though it’s hard to make an absolute assessment.
The Regional Plan Association says there’s room to build housing for 660,000 people on the parking lots of dozens of commuter rail stations from central Connecticut to the middle of New Jersey. Local zoning laws stand in the way, however.
Is the Marx Brothers Playground just a playground? Or is it a park? Gov. Cuomo has ordered a look into the fuzzy backstory behind an element of a de Blasio administration development plan. But the issues go well beyond those blueprints.
Jabari Brisport is one of the few Green candidates and the only Socialist on any New York City ballot this year. But in a district where private, luxury development is stoking deep opposition, maybe that’s not a bad thing to be.
Nearly 100 apartments that were up for grabs at Pacific Park (the site formerly known as Atlantic Yards) through the city’s affordable housing lottery a year ago are now being listed on StreetEasy, because not enough of the lottery winners would take them.
A flyer containing incendiary charges is circulating in a Lower Manhattan district where there’s a tight Council race. Many of the charges appear overstated or include falsehoods, while the accuracy of others are subject to interpretation.
Much of Torres’ legislative record fits easily with his profile as a millennial progressive. But on public housing, his bread-and-butter issue, Torres has departed from some progressive allies in supporting controversial elements of Next Generation NYCHA.
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