‘What good is two weeks off from work, when many of us are one paycheck away from devastation because rents are skyrocketing thanks to the mayor’s development agenda?’
Proponents wonder why an environmental impact study that explores so many facets of a neighborhood—its workforce, open space, traffic, housing market and even shadows—cannot also look at racial impacts.
The conditions set by the board included 20 acres of public open space, construction of new schools, additional ferry services and making the proposed renovations to the Cromwell recreation center a separate project with its own funding.
At midnight on January 1, a ball dropped in Manhattan, former Public Advocate Letitia James became the state attorney general, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson became the acting public advocate, and a race to fill James’ seat that had been stewing for months came to a boil.
The challenge contends the Inwood rezoning’s environmental impact study missed important factors such as the impact on preferential rent leases, racial displacement, and minority- and women-owned businesses.
A video conversation with a top tenant organizer and a leading affordable-housing advocate about what 2019 has in store for New York renters and neighborhoods.
Even people making close to six digits are concerned about losing affordable apartments. And some worried about jobs as much as housing.
The outreach effort precedes a likely rezoning push expected late next year.
The plan calls for the environmental review to include ‘alternate methods for predicting secondary displacement.’
The plan would rezone the southern part of the island for private mixed-use development in the hopes of attracting academic institutions as well as life sciences, media and technology companies.
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