East New York has been slated for Bill de Blasio’s first major rezoning, intended to make room for more affordable housing and – more speculatively, given that demand is not yet high enough to warrant…
Late last month, the de Blasio administration held a public meeting in East New York to unveil some of the details of that neighborhood’s rezoning, the first comprehensive plan during the mayor’s term. And now, the Department…
The de Blasio administration gave the New York Times a preview of the mayor’s State of the City speech later today, which will focus almost entirely on housing. In it, he will announce rezonings for East Harlem and Stapleton,…
In June, New York’s 421-a tax abatement program is up for renewal, and many on City Council want it either eliminated entirely or seriously overhauled. The program, as currently structured, relieves owners of newly built rental buildings or condos…
Most subsidized housing development in the Bronx is concentrated in the borough’s southern precincts, but occasionally we see below-market construction creep up the Grand Concourse, as with a filing today for a project at 2763 Morris…
