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Listen to Alicia Boyd’s WBAI Living for the City interview on Oct 29 2025 discussing her insights regarding the NYC Ballot Proposals related to proposed City Charter Changes.
If you would like to view this article in video format please click on this link. Mayor Eric Adams is proposing (for the second time in his term) to change the City Charter. This time with a focus on diminishing the power of the City Council and the public regarding Read more…
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No Parking! – Final Nail in the Coffin! Mayor Adams’ City of Yes Demands for No Parking Requirements Does anyone recall Mayor Eric Adams making the bold statements that outside agitators were influencing the Columbia’s protests, later finding out that 99% of people arrested were in fact Columbia students? Now Read more…
City’s Data Shows and the City agrees “City of Yes” Will Not Help Housing Crisis? Mayor Adams made a big announcement about HPD’s Vacancy Survey, to justified his City of Yes “COY” Housing Text Amendments. According to him (along with the Real Estate Industry) NYC’s vacancy rate is less than 1 % and the housing Read more…
We noticed the 2024 AMI rates are no longer on the HPD site. Luckily we got them before they were removed.
In January 2024 Brooklyn’s Community Board 9 released the following to explain their vote against the proposed City of Yes for Economic Opportunities text amendments. We at Community Board 9 oppose the City of Yes for Economic Opportunity text amendments in their entirety. These are city-wide text amendments which will Read more…
The adoption of Green Fast Track will take away our right to know what is happening in our community. Click Here to read the rest of Alicia Boyd’s Op Ed in BKReader.
Image above: 25 story building We are finally getting to another major change happening in our city around development. The removal of the requirement for Developers who want to build up to 25 stories not to perform any type of environmental review. However, before we can discuss this issue you Read more…
Bklyn Community Board 11 Gets a Snow Job By Department of City Planning CB11 Votes Against its Own Power! As it is snowing outside, DCP is going around doing a snow job on local community boards, to the extent that boards are willing to disempower themselves. For example, lets take Brooklyn Community Board 11, Read more…