As community boards around the city react to the de Blasio administration’s push for broad rezonings of whole neighborhoods, at least one community board is aiming to fix a flaw in the plans of an earlier mayor.
Published on Jun 29, 2017
The Make the Road New York organizer talks about the neighborhood around the Bay Street corridors, the planning process so far and how the North Shore’s working class communities of color fit in to the long-standing tensions between the Island and the four other boroughs.
After a loud protest disrupted a community-board vote on the mayor’s proposed rezoning, confusion, charges and countercharges swirled. One of the protest leaders says the episode illustrates the need for community-board reform.
What exactly did the board vote on? And was the vote even valid? To the best of our knowledge, here’s where things stand.
Developers of new towers planned for the Two Bridges area solicited resident feedback on how to address shadows the new buildings will cause and how to target affordable housing the new structures will offer. But some in the community would still rather see no new skyscrapers at all.
Not that foreclosure is the only thing city homeowners, or policymakers, have to worry about.
Long-neglected Broadway Junction may finally get a makeover, but many details of the potential revitalization remain undetermined.
In the first step of the ULURP process, the Community Board 11 land-use committee set conditions for its approval of the administration’s plan, demanding lower density and more affordable housing.
It was clear that the Northern Manhattan Is Not For Sale coalition, Save Inwood Library and other neighborhood groups opposed to displacement or overdevelopment had turned out in full force, each with their own, sometimes overlapping demands.
Read our free newsletter for East New York, one year after the rezoning.
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