Mayor Mike Rawlings wants to create a local government corporation to take on the Trinity River Park project. The public-private partnership would be responsible for planning and building the 200-acre park.
12The proposed BQGreen would be a 3.5-acre park over a portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The area is known for heavy air pollution—asthma rates on the Southside of Williamsburg are nearly double those of the rest of NYC. Advocates are stepping up pressure to make the project a reality.
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development announced a $1.65 million grant program to create and expand community land trusts in New York City.
Judging by responses on social media, many people want what the city of Dayton wants: To see an unused rail line near downtown transformed into an elevated bike trail and public park.
Auckland’s hills help to define our city. Sometimes they’re a blessing, sometimes they can be a bit of curse. Occasionally they also present a unique opportunity.
Gentrification seems scary and inevitable – a condition so complex that we are helpless in the face of it. We’re not. And in fact, what we need to do is really straightforward.
A group of youth leaders who helped shape The 606 affordable housing ordinance and their supporters marched to the elevated trail Wednesday evening in an effort to keep momentum for the legislation going.
At a public meeting in the Civic Offices on Wood Quay last month, the TD Eamon Ryan of the Green Party, along with representative groups from around the city, announced a new campaign, called Dublin Greenways.
Leon Waddy grew up in the District’s Shaw neighborhood in the ’80s and ’90s, but he doesn’t recognize much of it these days. African American residents used to make up 90 percent of the neighborhood. Today, they’re less than 50 percent.
Two winning proposals, recently selected by the Design Trust for Public Space, will advance community ownership of public land and provide welcoming public spaces across New York City.
