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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