Month: November 2024

In string of teen shootings in New York, two 15-year-olds charged in separate fatalities  USA TODAY

A few thousand flocked to Park Slope on Thursday, Oct. 31, for the annual Park Slope Civic Council Children’s Halloween Parade.

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ВЕРХНИЙ ВЕСТ-САЙД, Манхэттен — Ведется расследование после того, как два человека были застрелены в Верхнем Вест-Сайде на Манхэттене, во время праздничной и насыщенной ночи на Хэллоуин. […]

The City Council on Friday released comprehensive package of reforms designed to tackle various parts of the city’s housing affordability crisis as its response to Mayor Eric Adams’ City of Yes zoning proposal aimed at loosening restrictions around residential development.

City Council leaders are pitching their plan, dubbed “City for All,” as a way to address areas of the Big Apple’s housing shortage they feel are left untouched by the mayor’s plan.

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, in a statement, said that while City of Yes would lead to more housing production, “affordability, homeownership opportunities, housing security and stability, and neighborhood investments are equally important to help working- and middle-class residents in our city.”

“I am proud to join with my colleagues and advocates to announce City for All, the Council’s housing plan to meet the full range of housing needs of New Yorkers,” she added. “Taken together, these actions and investments can help ease the challenges facing New Yorkers, allowing our city to become more affordable, livable, and sustainable.”

The City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, as the mayor’s plan is known, is a suite of zoning changes that would update decades-old rules to allow for building “a little more housing in every neighborhood.” It would allow developers to build small apartment buildings near train stations and above storefronts along commercial corridors, eliminate a mandate that new housing construction include off-street parking and give builders the option to add at least 20% more housing to any project as long as its affordable.

The council’s plan would require developers to build more deeply affordable units in new housing projects, boost funding for the city’s homeownership assistance programs, put more dollars toward improving infrastructure in neighborhoods that will see new construction under City of Yes and strengthen tenant protection programs.

Specifically, it would require affordable units be included in developments around train stations and above storefronts, the city committed capital funding to improve sewer infrastructure to prevent flooding and put significantly more funding toward the city’s program that provides free housing lawyers to tenants facing eviction.

City lawmakers released City for All a little over a week after it held a marathon two-days of hearings on City of Yes, where the body heard feedback from both city agency leaders and the public on the zoning updates. The council’s plan appears to incorporate both priorities that it had announced before the hearing and issues raised by council members and the public.

“During last week’s hearings, we heard from New Yorkers on all sides, and their concerns shaped this approach,” Council Member Kevin Riley (D-Bronx), chair of the body’s Zoning Subcommittee, said in a statement. “Focusing on true opportunities for affordable homeownership, investing in critical infrastructure like sewage systems to support sustainable growth, and ensuring deep affordability are crucial steps.”

Most council members will likely stake their support for City of Yes on some version of their plan being included in a final deal. Mayor Adams, meanwhile, may be more receptive to body’s demands given his own diminished political capital stemming from his federal indictment.

With the City of Yes hearings done and the council having released its plan, the administration and lawmakers will now negotiate over what will be in the final package. A vote on the City of Yes is expected before the end of the year.

Thousands of costumed locals of all ages lined Fifth Avenue on Saturday, Oct. 26, for the neighborhood’s third annual Halloween Fest. 

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Though the presidential election will be first on everyone’s minds come November 5, it’s not the only issue up for a vote on Election Day. On the backside of your ballot, New Yorkers will be able to vote directly on six proposed changes to the NY state constitution or the New York City Charter. Here’s […]

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A $49.1 MILLION SETTLEMENT WAS REACHED between major pharmaceutical companies who inflated the prices of several essential medicines.

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With Election Day only days away, the push to vote Republican was anything but subtle as New York Conservatives urged the audience.

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