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FreshDirect Job Vows: At Odds with Environmental Claims?
The grocery deliverer says it will create thousands of jobs in the South Bronx, but that expansion disappears when the firm analyzes its environmental impact.
Forgotten History Behind New Brooklyn Waterfront Plan
Behind the new and shiny plan for the Domino factory site is a saga of labor strife, lawsuits, and waterfront politics—one City Limits started telling back in 1983.
Willets Point Developers Pitched a Casino
The current development plan doesn't include a gaming facility. But the casino proposal sheds new light on the bid by Related Companies and Sterling Equities.
Agency, Developer Wrestle Over Atlantic Yards Affordability
Documents reveal tense negotiations between city housing officials and Forest City Ratner over the kind of affordable housing the first Atlantic Yards residential tower will provide. Turns out it's different from what the developer promised.
Legal Questions Emerge About Citi Field Mall
A new version of the Willets Point redevelopment plan envisions a shopping mall in what is now a parking lot—on what is technically parkland. The city and some advocates disagree on whether a Robert Moses-era law paves the way for the project.
Coney Island's Invisible Towers
The Bloomberg administration has rolled the dice on a major rezoning and costly infrastructure upgrades in Coney Island. Will the hoped-for development ever appear?
Industrial, Homeless Policies Clash in East New York
A plan to build subsidized housing in a zone reserved for manufacturing businesses pits efforts to reduce the shelter population against hopes of saving industrial New York.
Brooklyn: A Developing Story
Atlantic Yards may have generated the most heat, but it's just one of several ambitious development ideas that took shape in the borough over the past decade.
Opinions Harden Over Atlantic Yards Housing
The dramatic slow-down in housing construction at the Brooklyn site is fodder for opponents of the project. But supporters believe the development will still make good on its commitments.
Traffic, Noise & Hope: Atlantic Yards Still Elicits Mixed Views
Opponents of Atlantic Yards feel vindicated by the challenges facing the development. Business owners in the area express a mix of concern and optimism.
Nets Arrive, Questions Remain At Atlantic Yards
The Nets are coming to Brooklyn with a 15-man roster and a tip-off in fall 2012. Traffic, jobs, housing and economic activity are coming, too, but no one is sure precisely how much or exactly when.
Brooklyn's Arena Is Coming. What's Coming Next?
In a matter of months the Nets will be playing ball at the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic, as envisioned more than eight years ago by developer Bruce Ratner. But the rest of Atlantic Yards' promise has yet to be fulfilled. Given the deep disagreement the project prompted, what does that mean for Brooklyn?
Bike Plan Aims to Get Bronx Armory on Track
In 2009 a controversy over wages scuttled a plan to build a mall in the long-empty Kingsbridge Armory. Now there's a plan to host bike races there. Is a renovation project finally getting in gear?
City Spent $1M on Report, Used Questionable Data
A study that says a proposed city living wage law would kill 13,000 jobs based its analysis on a state subsidy program that wouldn't actually be covered by the city measure.
Shopping For Change In Crown Heights
Like many Brooklyn neighborhoods, it is seeing a surge in new businesses and young residents. Do the doubts about gentrification run deeper there?
Federal Funds Have City Planners Eyeing East New York, Bronx
A federal planning grant to be shared among several governments on either side of the New York-Connecticut border aims for transit-oriented development.
Japan Tsunami, Katrina Memories Wash Into Waterfront Debate
A new city plan addressing competing claims on New York's coastline draws praise. But there's still plenty of debate over the details, especially over the risks that come with waterfront industry.
Can a Year-Round Coney Island Succeed?
After seven years of legal wrangling, hundreds of millions of dollars in city expense, and the eviction of many of Coney Island's historic amusement operators, the island is still seasonal.
Cuomo, Paladino & Remedies For Our Ailing Economy
If the seven-member comedy act that was the October 18 gubernatorial debate can be said to have had a serious message, it was likely this: It's the jobs, stupid.
City Approves Subsidy Deal Over Union Objections
The Industrial Development Agency okayed $21 million in subsidies to Thomson Reuters. The company says the money will help it keep jobs in the city. A union had resisted the deal.
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Veterans of 'Battle of Brooklyn' Tell War Stories in Bronx - Jordan Moss
Brooklynites who fought against the Atlantic Yards development shared lessons they learned with Bronx residents who are resisting a different city-subsidized development deal.
NY Pols Tout Bill Targeting Jobless Youth - Kiera Feldman
The Urban Jobs Act would provide $20 million for services to unemployed young people. Amid partisan rancor, will the idea survive Congress? Against record youth unemployment, will it make a difference if it does?
Coney Baloney: DiNapoli's Report Obscures Brooklyn Beachfront's Rollercoaster Economy - Neil deMause
Job growth is soaring in Coney Island, says a new report. That was news to anyone who's actually been to Coney Island lately.
Immigrants' U.S. Paychecks A Lifeline To Home Countries - Vincent Trivett
Immigrant workers who send money to support their families contribute mightily to their home countries' economies. But high fees and other obstacles erode the impact this cash could have.
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America's Cities Shaped (and Mishaped) by Rules
Zoning laws, building codes and other regulations can seem like bureaucratic obscurities. But, says this author, they have a powerful—and often negative—impact on urban areas.
The Unfulfilled Promises of Atlantic Yards
What's missing from the controversial development site? Not just the jobs and housing, says this writer, but the independent monitor required by the community benefits agreement.
Planning For Cities' Future Must Be Fair
As the Regional Plan Association convenes its annual assembly, one participant notes that along with efficiency and the environment, equity must be a goal of urban planners.
Beep Says Brooklyn Is NYC's Economic Engine
"In spite of saying 'goodbye' to our treasures of yesterday, Brooklyn is thriving," writes Borough President Marty Markowitz.
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1961 Shea Stadium Financing Bill
This law has become the focal point in a debate over whether a shopping mall proposed as part of a revised Willets Point redevelopment plan is on parkland, and whether a retail use is in line with the legal framework for the site.
One In Four Young Black Men In NYC Has A Job
New York City suffered a shorter and milder recession than most of America. But this report finds that young black men in the five boroughs suffered joblessness at a painfully high rate between January 2009 and June 2010.
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