Knowledge Is Power
Can’t Find the 2024 AMI (Area Median Income) Rates? Here They Are…
We noticed the 2024 AMI rates are no longer on the HPD site. Luckily we got them before they were removed.
City of Yes Text Amendments
Letters to Brooklyn City Councilpersons – Vote NO on Casino Text Amendments!
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 Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
Reasons Brooklyn’s Community Board 9 Voted NO for COY – Economic Opportunity
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 Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
Wake Up! Do You Know What’s About to Happen to Your New York?
Everyone is talking about Mayor Eric Adams’s “City of Yes”, however people don’t understand what’s about to happen to their community and why… Here’s the rest of Alicia Boyd’s Op Ed in Our Time Press.
City of Yes Text Amendments
New 25 Story Buildings May Avoid Environmental Reviews
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.
City of Yes Text Amendments
25 Story Buildings Avoiding Environmental Reviews
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 Read more…
Fight Against Rezoning
Community Board 11 Gets A Snow Job
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 Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
Bklyn CB2 District Manager – Criminal Behavior on City of Yes
Criminal Behavior and Conflict of Interest by Employees of Department of City Planning and Bklyn Community Board 2 Conflicts of Interest of Bklyn Community Board 2 Chairs As outrageous as COY rezoning proposals are and the disbelief that the City is Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
Queens Urban Planner Discusses City Of Yes on WBAI
Listen To WBAI on Wednesday, January 3, at 11:00 am Tomorrow, Paul Graziano, who is a Urban Planner that is organizing Queens against the COY will be interviewed by Michael G. Haskins during the Living for the City morning program. Read more…
City of Yes Text Amendments
MTOPP Answers Questions on the City of Yes
Questions and Answers! There have been many questions posed by Community Boards regarding the Business/Economic Text Amendments of the City of Yes “COY”. The Department of City Planning “DCP” has responded to these questions and MTOPP has responded to their answers. Read more…