Normally, when YIMBY comes across an affordable housing project in the Bronx, the architecture is unmemorable. Red brick and cheap masonry touches abound, and we can’t ever remember seeing a new building whose façade wasn’t…
Late last year, the developers of Essex Crossing – the design scheme chosen for the politically fraught Seward Park Urban Renewal Area project, on the Lower East Side – said that construction would commence on the site in…
Earlier this month, the Citizens Budget Commission released another policy brief in their series on affordability in New York City, this time with a focus on housing and transportation costs. And they came to a startling conclusion:…
Bensonhurst, in southern Brooklyn, is in the midst of great change, as Italians move out and demand from Chinese priced out of Sunset Park soars. Unfortunately, the city cowed to the old-timers when it downzoned vast swaths…
While the New York City Housing Authority’s grand “Land Lease” infill plan, proposed in the waning months of the Bloomberg administration, was highly controversial, other affordable housing projects have been wedged in between the voids…
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