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Anti-Construction Harassment Coalition Rallies at City Hall For Tenant Safety
(Photo: Nicole Disser) A group by the name of Stand for Tenant Safety, consisting of tenant groups and eleven City Council Members (including Rosie Mendez from the Lower East Side, Stephen Levin from...
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Bushwick Task Force Aims to ‘Clean Up’ (Literally) Area Plagued By K2
The intersection at Myrtle-Broadway in Bushwick is K2 central (Photo: Nicole Disser) “I have a really high tolerance for people doing stuff on the street,” said G Lucas Crane, a member of the Silent...
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Spice Is Vice: Mayor Passes New Laws Aimed at Ending ‘Plague of K2′
(Screenshot via YouTube) The Mayor signed a series of laws today criminalizing K2, part of the City’s continuing effort to crack down on the use and sale of synthetic marijuana. The drug, which Mayor...
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NuHart Building Co-Owner on the Superfund Rave: “I Panicked”
The NuHart Plastics Building (Photo: Nicole Disser) The massive Halloween rave shutdown by the Fire Department in Greenpoint over the weekend stole the show once again, this time at Monday evening’s...
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East Village Tenants Say ‘Enough Is Enough’ to Alleged Predatory Landlord
Karen Platt’s East Village building, 522 East 5th Street (Photo: Nicole Disser) Karen Platt has been channeling her frustrations through the satisfying scrape of chalk across concrete. After years of...
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This Anti-Garbage Meeting in Bushwick Got Pretty Steamy
(Flyer Via Cleanup North Brooklyn) “You really have to be quick crossing the street, or they’ll totally run you down,” a friend of mine laughed. “I’m actually really scared that someday they’ll catch...
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Tenants Marched to City Hall to Boost Bills Aimed at Fighting Harassment
Tenants rally in Chinatown to protest construction harassment with Stand for Tenant Safety Coalition (Photo by Nicole Disser) Tenants and activists who are part of the Stand for Tenant Safety Coalition...
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City Council Grills Mayor’s Affordable Housing Plan, Fearing...
(photo by Kavitha Surana) City Council members pushed Mayor de Blasio’s new rezoning plan to prioritize deeper affordability during a hearing yesterday on a key pillar of his effort to add 200,000 new...
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What Will De Blasio’s Higher Buildings Mean For Transit, Affordability?
Rendering of Extell’s controversial tower, going up in Chinatown. The first rows of the City Council chambers were packed with red shirts yesterday. Members of the AARP were there to support Mayor Bill...
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In About-Face, Bushwick Could Accept Towers For More Affordable Housing
Affordable housing advocates protesting last fall (Photo: Nicole Disser) Bushwick council member Antonio Reynoso was among the many who challenged Mayor de Blasio’s affordable housing plan last week,...
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Participatory Budgeting Time! Tell the City Where, Exactly, It Can Stuff Your...
(Map via NYC City Council) As Participatory Budgeting has been adopted here in New York City over the last few years, residents of each participating district can now vote on how to allocate a minimum...
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Bushwickers Are Making a Community Plan Before Developers Make It For Them
Antonio Reynoso speaks at the Bushwick Community Plan open house (Photo: Nicole Disser) A slew of city agencies and elected officials are asking Bushwick residents for direct input on how best to...
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Electeds Aim to Keep Community, Non-Profit Spaces From Becoming Soulless Condos
Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer with Councilmember Margaret Chin,New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Public Advocate Letitia James, and other members of the NYC Council...
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The Future of ’80/20′ Affordable Housing Hangs in the Balance: Can 421-A Be...
(Photo: C Ceres Merry)You may not have realized it, but the city has been in the midst of a “developocalypse” since January, when the state’s 421-a program expired. For decades, the program had fueled...
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5 Ways New Yorkers Can Fight the ‘Shocking Turn’ Our Country Has Taken
(Flyer via office of CM Stephen Levin) You might have noticed that since the election, stories of hate crimes and swastika sightings have been everywhere. But the increase isn’t simply due to a greater...
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Newly Signed Law Will Help Keep OId Folks Homes From Becoming Rich Folks Homes
(Photo: Kavitha Surana) It’s too late to save Rivington House, the former HIV treatment facility that a non-profit nursing home operator unexpectedly flipped to a luxury developer after the city...
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Bushwick City Council Rep Denounces Trump’s Latest Series of Executive Orders
City Council Member Antonio Reynoso speaks at a rally in support of the Right to Know Act in April 2016 (Photo: Kavitha Surana) On the heels of President Trump signing three executive orders “designed...
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Nightlife Advocates and Politicians Want to Dance on the Grave of NYC’s...
(photo: Cassidy Dawn Graves) Yesterday, hundreds flocked to City Hall to discuss the future of nightlife in New York City at a consumer affairs oversight hearing. It was the first of its kind in over a...
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Pols Condemn Hit-and-Run Drivers After Weekend Deaths of Two Brooklynites
City councilman Stephen Levin speaks during press conference. “There is a no more senseless or inhumane action than to leave a body in the street,” declared city councilman Ydanis Rodriguez at a news...
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City Council Passes Sweeping Tenant Protections
Credit: Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.Yesterday the City Council passed a sweeping package of pro-tenant legislation long advocated by tenants’ rights groups, activists, and...
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