NYCHA
Two of Brooklyn’s most prominent federal officials say the president’s infrastructure plan doesn’t provide enough funding for New York City’s ailing public housing stock.
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Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes and Council Member Antonio Reynoso at a press event on Thursday, May 6th, 2021. (Image: Billy Richling/Bklyner)Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes and Council Member Antonio Reynoso joined local residents outside NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses on Thursday afternoon to draw attention to ongoing cooking gas
Central Brooklyn
Workers installing solar panels at Carver Houses, a New York City Housing Authority development in northern Manhattan. (Image: Accord Power Inc.)A new initiative seeks to give some low-income New Yorkers access to renewable energy, saving them a few bucks in the process. And it’s making use of public
Gowanus
A sketch of thre Gowanus canal bridge crossing with waterfront development and pedestrian activity. (Image: Department of City Planning)The bitterly-contested Gowanus rezoning plan [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/gowanus/gowanus.page] took two crucial steps forward on Monday. First, State Supreme Court Justice Katherine Levine lifted a
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One of the 20 buildings in NYCHA’s Williamsburg Houses complex. (Image: Google Maps)Plans to transfer the NYCHA’s Williamsburg Houses—one of the oldest public housing complexes in the country—to private management under the city’s controversial RAD program are beginning to come into focus. Here’s
canarsie
The Police Athletic League has been sued three separate times this month over sexual abuse allegedly committed by a martial arts instructor in Canarsie in the 1970s. The lawsuit, filed by Minnesota attorney Patrick Noaker and Manhattan attorney Matthew Lombardi, alleges that Police Athletic League (PAL) Tae Kwon Do instructor
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via @NYCSanitationThe 2,424 residents of Glenwood Houses were without heat all day today as the snowstorm that made Mayor de Blasio issue a State of Emergency blanketed the city. The outage follows a weekend where four Glenwood Houses buildings, which house 497 residents, were without heat or hot water
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Aerial Photo of Ingersoll Houses via NYCHAFORT GREENE — The 4,046 neighbors who live at the 21-building Ingersoll Houses [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/ingersoll-report-en.pdf] complex have been without heat and hot water since 10 am today. NYCHA, the city’s worst landlord [/nycha-jason-korn-again-top-public-advocates-list-of-worst-landlords/], has failed
Big Story
75th Precinct House. Mark Davis [http://www.ellebobo.com/]/BklynerLike many low-income communities, East New York was hit hard when coronavirus began to sweep through the city in late March. But the neighborhood was simultaneously the victim of two other pandemics: gun violence and police misconduct. Data from the New
Central Brooklyn
Red Hook Houses resident Sherron Paige and her son, Kyan. Courtesy of Sherron PaigeBy Greg B. Smith, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/11/22221322/nycha-falsely-certified-brooklyn-child-apartment-lead-free] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] “When people make mistakes and then cover those mistakes up
Central Brooklyn
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams at a virtual press conference announcing the release of the 2020 Worst Landlords Watchlist on December 15, 2020.The office of Public Advocate Jumaane Williams published its annual Worst Landlords Watchlist [https://landlordwatchlist.com/] today, which identifies the city’s 100 most negligent landlords as determined
Announcements
(Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)BEDFORD STUYVESANT – Elected officials and local residents joined together for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the new Marcy Houses Community Center. The Center is located at 492 Marcy Avenue and opened at a time where residents need it most. The 3,
Central Brooklyn
Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability at City Hall on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography OfficeBy Greg B. Smith, This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/housing/2020/10/22/21528781/nycha-lead-paint-more-apartments-identified] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] Thousands more young children
Announcements
Hudson (left) at the Atlantic Terminal Houses NYCHA development. (Photo via Hudson’s campaign)BROOKLYN – Tenant leaders from four New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments in the 35th Council district– which includes Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, and parts of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant– endorsed Crystal Hudson for
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The internet. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)BROOKLYN – In a time where New Yorkers need access to the internet more than ever, the city will be accelerating broadband internet deployment in all five boroughs in an effort to connect 600,000 underserved people to jobs, training, education, mental health supports, and
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1690 Ralph Avenue. Via Google Maps.UPDATE: As of 03/04/2020, police have identified the victim as 22-year-old Dontae Mckenzie of Queens. FLATLANDS/CANARSIE — Yesterday evening, a young man was found with a gunshot wound to his chest in front of the Glenwood NYCHA housing complex. Yesterday, February 11,