by Isabel Song Beer, published 11/30
The New York City Parks Department (NYC Parks) cut the ribbon Tuesday on a new $26 million waterfront area on the city’s Lower East Side.
The new area, a recreation deck at Pier 42, is an ESCR mitigation project and features a 2.3-acre deck space with a turf soccer field, tennis courts, half-basketball courts and other amenities.
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by Andrea Marks, published 11/26
“WHILE KERI BLAKINGER was incarcerated, she papered her cell walls with pictures her romantic partner drew for her. “I was dating someone who liked drawing things instead of using words, and having those drawings and being able to look at them and put them on the cell wall — that was all meaningful,” says Blakinger, a journalist whose 2022 memoir Corrections In Ink chronicles her heroin addiction and 21 months behind bars.
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NEW YORK – Just in time for the holiday season, New York City is rolling out its largest-ever Open Streets plan.
For the first time in half a century, part of Fifth Avenue will be car-free.
As CBS2’s Dick Brennan reports, the holiday season has hit Midtown, and it’s beginning to look a lot like gridlock, both in the streets and on the sidewalks.
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November 22, 2022 by Emily Davenport
The testing lab that found arsenic in the water at the Riis Houses may have retracted its findings, but that’s cold comfort for the building’s residents, who have a massive backlog of other problems.
Nor residents at Wald Houses or Baruch Houses — other New York Housing Authority complexes located on the Lower East Side waterfront in Councilmember Carlina Rivera’s district.
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November 22, 2022 by Carlina Rivera
The City Council has not advanced the legislation to make the city’s temporary, Covid-era outdoor dining program permanent. We’ve covered the issue extensively, and now Council Member Carlina Rivera (D-East Village) is demanding a better process. Here’s her op-ed piece, exclusively for Streetsblog.
We are at an inflection point on outdoor dining, and as we consider its next phase, we have an opportunity to create an enduring program for restaurants and communities to thrive together.
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by Reuven Blau, published November 4, 2022
The city Department of Correction recently revealed it is moving to a digitized mail and package delivery system meant to curb contraband. Inmate advocates caution the switch will trample privacy rights — and that two other states that made similar changes have seen no decrease in overdoses or drug seizures.
At an oversight hearing last week, DOC Commissioner Louis A.
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por NY1, Actualizado 03 Noviembre 2022
“El dueño de casa nos quiere desalojar”, dijo la inquilina Miriam Andrade.
Desde hace 22 años, Andrade, ecuatoriana de 50 años, vive en un edificio en Brooklyn y dice que su casero la quiere desalojar, algo que le parece ilógico e inhumano ya que asegura hay unidades vacías.
“Que somos familias que tenemos niños, que ¿adónde nos vamos a ir a vivir?, a lo menos a mí me tocara ir a vivir debajo de un puente porque yo no tengo donde.
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by Sam Rabiyah and Rachel Holliday Smith, published November 3, 2022
The pressure is on to open the city’s vacant apartments.
Since THE CITY reported that nearly 89,000 rent-stabilized apartments were vacant last year in New York City, tenant advocates and lawmakers have increased their calls for solutions as the city’s housing crisis deepens.
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por Verónica Romero, Actualizado 01 Noviembre 2022
Una horda de ‘propiedades zombis’ está aterrorizando la ciudad de Nueva York y el defensor del pueblo, Jumaane Williams, aprovechó el Halloween para liderar a una coalición de activistas y funcionarios electos para luchar contra ellas.
Y es que en una época en que la falta de vivienda tiene a Nueva York en una crisis de asequibilidad y desamparo cada vez peor, se estima que más de 88,000 unidades de alquiler estabilizado están vacantes en la Gran Manzana y caen dentro del rubro de ‘propiedades zombis’ que el Departamento de Desarrollo y Preservación de Vivienda (HPD), en su portal, define como pequeñas viviendas de-
socupadas y deterioradas cuyos propietarios están atrasados en los pagos de su hipoteca.
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by Max Parrott, published October 31, 2022
With the governor’s race heating up into a full-blown political war over criminal justice reforms, Councilmember Carlina Rivera has not ceased to propose new ideas on how the city can reshape its jail system.
Rivera, chair of the Council Committee on Criminal Justice, introduced legislation on Thursday that would create a city program to identify incarcerated people awaiting trial who are safe to return to the community through alternative programs.
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