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Department of City Planning

  • Flushing’s Affordable Housing at Risk

    Flushing town hall


    Last week, the New York City Council approved the contested East New York rezoning - the first of 15 proposed neighborhood rezonings through which Mayor de Blasio intends to advance his goal of preserving 120,000 units of affordable housing and producing 80,000 new units at below-market rents. Described by some as a rezoning taking place “under the

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  • Candidates Allege Wright Unfairly Influences Elections

    Keith Wright parade

    Keith Wright at the Puerto Rican Day Parade (photo: @KeithWright2016)


    Afua Atta-Mensah, candidate for female district leader in Harlem's 70th Assembly District, had no illusions that running for office for the first time would be easy. But after campaigning against the entrenched Harlem political machine all summer she wonders if she would do it again. "Any newcomer is not taken kindly when they are running against the machine," said Atta-Mensah, a public

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