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Responding to a lawsuit claiming that the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) violated the New York State Open Meetings Law in creating the vision plan for the Brooklyn Marine Terminal redevelopment, the city admits for the first time explicitly that the task force—which voted to approve the plan in September of last year—was an advisory body. In a […]
Coffey Street Studio, an art studio in an unassuming warehouse in Red Hook, is returning its artist residency program, the Coffey Street Studio Artist Initiative (CSSAI). The studio sits right next to the water and has its doors open to all who wish to learn more about what it does to help expose local performers and acts to the community […]
A ribbon cutting ceremony celebrated the official opening of the NYU Langone school based health clinic for both Harbor Middle School and Summit Academy Charter School. The clinic is a free resource that will provide medical primary healthcare for students so that all of their medical needs will be met in the building. This clinic was an idea going back […]
The conversion of the publicly owned Brooklyn Marine Terminal and the transformation of Red Hook West from a NYCHA managed property to one leased to and run by private developers bear many similarities. In both cases, public property is either leased or sold to private entities. The PACT program allows NYCHA to lease out its buildings to private housing companies, […]
I am going to say right off the bat that a lot of these words are the result of an AI Google search. It does a good job of explaining that a century ago, we had a housing crisis which put poor New Yorkers at risk of their lives. The solution, which took a Depression to implement, was largely due […]
New York’s finest over-police the city’s Black and brown residents, the New York Police Department’s own data shows. In February, the department released its latest batch of statistics on investigative encounters, which are interactions between a police officer and a civilian “for a law enforcement or investigative purpose.” Since 2003, the NYPD has collected data on so-called “level 3” stops—also […]
