A new senior housing development in the neighborhood aims not just to address a citywide senior housing shortage, but also to create a foothold for the aged amid new real-estate investment.
Hunger strikes in Vancouver. Protests in Berlin. Anxiety in El Barrio. Around the globe, there’s a shared, growing worry about economic forces driving working-class people out of urban centers.
Proposals to put charters in existing school buildings often stir outrage. While teachers are worried about two such moves in Bushwick, few parents attended the public hearings.
A shift in transit routes has triggered a wave of social change south of Myrtle Avenue, spurring a familiar mix of optimism and fear among residents.
The dispute between a South Bronx landlord and a radical arts collective has become a rallying cry for supporters of the group, which combines youth development with political activism.
Ask people on Blake Avenue what’s their No. 1 campaign concern, and they’ll say “crime.” But their worry seems to be less about violence and more about whether young people are on the wrong track.
Worries about 40,000 displaced people have ebbed. But in buildings where garbage services are still scattered, or where mold remains a menace, the Sandy saga continues.
For 10 years, as the neighborhood around her Wyckoff Street address has changed, Susan Gardner has been covering her house in color.
Residents looking for help with housing disputes must line up as early as 3 a.m to get assistance from cash-strapped community organizations in particularly vulnerable northern Manhattan neighborhoods.
Like many Brooklyn neighborhoods, it is seeing a surge in new businesses and young residents. Do the doubts about gentrification run deeper there?
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