It’s a common refrain among those in New York City’s anti-development left that market-rate builders are only willing to build luxury housing. Anyone who reads YIMBY on a daily basis knows this is not true – there…
On Saturday, the heads of a vast swath of agencies met to announce some details of the de Blasio’s administration first rezoning, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. Beyond rezoning and encouraging new construction –…
Through the early 2000s, the northern Bronx neighborhoods of Wakefield and Williamsbridge were a hotbed of small, infill development. Single-family detached homes were razed and replaced with three-family homes and small apartment buildings for the…
The Roman Catholic Church has been in retrenchment throughout New York City, with the latest batch of parish closures announced in November. St. Augustine’s, in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx, might show the…
The developers of the Essex Crossing development on the Lower East Side have revealed their plans (and renderings) for the massive project on the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.
