Twin 50-floor apartment towers 2 miles from the nearest subway, but a huge lot with plain old R6 zoning. Just another entry in the 'zoning is pseudoscience BS' file. newyorkyimby.com/2024/10/kew-...
Additional renderings have been revealed for Utopia Living, a two-skyscraper residential complex at 71-12 Park Avenue in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens.
Pretty incredible news from McGuinness Blvd, where the mayor’s reversal of the road diet has been reversed! www.nydailynews.com/2024/10/02/n...
To these so-called "business leaders," NYC only exists as something seen from the back of a town car. Anyone actually invested in the city(in more than just a balance sheet sense) wants good government that works, which Adams can't and won't provide.
Reluctance to speak out following the mayor’s corruption indictment stems from concerns about possible successors deemed unfriendly to private enterprise.
Reluctance to speak out following the mayor’s corruption indictment stems from concerns about possible successors deemed unfriendly to private enterprise.
So much talk about the mayor’s (admittedly epic) personal failings, and almost nothing about the state and county Democratic Party that stood behind him and enabled him through the rise of his career. Wonder why?
Shouldn't the precision and majestic rigor of zoning have eliminated this conflicts between polluting industry and a residential area? www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
Frustrated residents in Greenpoint claim a concrete plant in their neighborhood is a bad actor that's polluting their community.
Scenes like this are common in just about every NYC neighborhood with a supermarket, and UNFI is a prime offender. I guess it's cheaper to send 1 guy in a huge truck than a few guys in smaller trucks? But we all pay the price in other ways. brooklyneagle.com/articles/202...
Besides waking neighbors with the “banging and beeping” truck lift, the truck also blocks school buses, ambulances and other vehicles.
The dissonance between the quiet leafy reality of my Queens neighborhood versus the crime-ridden hellhole that the local Facebook group believes it to be is something to behold.
This story has everything, migrant smuggling, Carl Heastie, former Yankees slugger Ruben Sierra... www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
Officially, the restaurant belonged to Richard Caban, brother of the embattled NYPD commissioner. But social media pages tell a different story from the establishment’s liquor license and lease.
A few years ago, they tried to roll back a law that would balance out waste transfer stations throughout the city. The councilmember at the time took the health of his wallet over the lungs of his constituents. www.politico.com/states/new-y...
