Further Disempowerment of City Council One thing that most people don’t know is that a person who has power/control over issues, normally has others pulling their strings, and in order to compensate they in turn need to feel powerful to elements they view as under them. This is Mayor Eric Read more…
As you already know the City of Yes Housing has passed. Below are the city council people who stood with the people and voted no to the measure. We want to personally thank our own City Council person Darlene Mealy who voted against this plan and who also informed her 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.
Today, City Council Votes on Casinos! Dear City Council Persons, Darlene Mealy, Rita Joseph and Crystal Hudson: Today the City Council will be voting on the Casino Text Amendments, allowing any Casino that obtains a State license to locate here in NYC without having to go through the public review Read more…
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…