#Make NYC more affordable by extending Manhattan: professor

#Make NYC more affordable by extending Manhattan: professor

“#Make NYC more affordable by extending Manhattan: professor” The answer to New York City’s affordable housing crisis? Make Manhattan bigger. Rutgers professor Jason Barr believes there is a single solution to both cheaper NYC real estate and the issue of increasing global warming-related climate threats: Build more NYC.  “There is a way to help tackle…

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#Another step toward saving NYCHA

#Another step toward saving NYCHA

“#Another step toward saving NYCHA” Hopes for the city’s beleaguered public housing agency brightened after Real Estate Weekly reported that Related Cos. and NYCHA struck a deal to manage 2,054 apartments in Manhattan, complete $366 million in renovations and construct a new 100-unit building on unused land. Instead of demolishing the Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses,…

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#Biden’s silence on China’s Drug-Pushing and other commentary

#Biden’s silence on China’s Drug-Pushing and other commentary

“#Biden’s silence on China’s Drug-Pushing and other commentary” From the right: Silence on China’s Drug-Pushing “In the United States, a person dies from a drug overdose every five-and-a-half minutes,” frets John Mac Ghlionn at The American Conservative. Notably, “of the more than 100,000 drug-overdose deaths recorded in 2020, 64,178 involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl” —…

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#City Council passes plan for more housing in Gowanus, Brooklyn

#City Council passes plan for more housing in Gowanus, Brooklyn

“#City Council passes plan for more housing in Gowanus, Brooklyn” The City Council approved the redevelopment of Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood Tuesday, in a plan that will bring 8,500 new apartments to the area including 3,000 for middle-class and lower-income families. Gowanus sits between two of the borough’s priciest neighborhoods — Park Slope and Cobble Hill….

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#Incompetent de Blasio team whiffs on  billion Bronx boost

#Incompetent de Blasio team whiffs on $1 billion Bronx boost

“#Incompetent de Blasio team whiffs on $1 billion Bronx boost” If you thought Mayor de Blasio’s inept governance of our city couldn’t get any worse in his  administration’s waning days, think again.  A consortium of businesses working with the New York Yankees handed the city a $1 billion development plan for a blighted South Bronx neighborhood,…

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#Albany pols approve criminal justice and Cuomo impeachment fund bills

#Albany pols approve criminal justice and Cuomo impeachment fund bills

“#Albany pols approve criminal justice and Cuomo impeachment fund bills” ALBANY — State lawmakers, keen on wrapping up the legislative session, called it quits late Thursday after spending hours at the negotiation table tweaking a controversial criminal justice proposal and MTA restructuring plan backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  “As our scheduled session concludes tonight, we…

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