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More Housing, No Gentrification: How Rezoning Gave East New York a New Start
When, a little over 10 years ago, the Mayor Bill de Blasio administration approached East New York City Councilmember Rafael Espinal to win his support for a plan to rezone East New York, many residents of the economically struggling Brooklyn neighborhood feared that a rezoning would lead to gentrification and push them out. Espinal had […]
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LISTEN: ‘Everybody Got Pepper-Sprayed’
There’s something different about just walking to work or to get your laundry, and then just disappearing. People are grabbed up who sometimes have never had an interaction with the immigration system before. They’ve never had a lawyer. These street arrests involve a lot of discretion in the field from ICE officers. Gwynne Hogan joins […]
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NYPD and Office of Community Safety Have Yet to Meet, Commissioner Tisch Says
Officials from the newly launched Office of Community Safety haven’t yet spoken with anyone from the NYPD about collaboration or shifting responsibilities to the office, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday. Council Speaker Julie Menin asked the commissioner during an executive budget hearing on public safety about coordination between the police department and OCS. The […]
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City Hall Made Her the Face of a Housing Solution. Now She’s All But Cut Out.
During the last mayor’s term, Sadé Singh was a face of the city’s push to allow more housing across the boroughs. Now, building that housing on her own property may be impossible. Singh, who lives in St. Albans, Queens, wanted homeowners like herself to be able to build backyard cottages and apartments over garages, in […]
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Pepper Spray and Broken Bones: Inside the Battle Over Delaney Hall
On Thursday afternoon, the wives of detainees on a work strike at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark started to receive frantic calls. Guards were beating men with batons and deploying pepper spray in one of the units, they said. “They were all screaming, but I could hear him say, ‘They’re hitting me. […]
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