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Rezoning Would Transform South Bronx Swath Near Yankee Stadium

The Bloomberg administration today launched an initiative to overhaul a portion of the South Bronx, as the Department of City Planning began the public review for its “Lower Concourse” rezoning. The proposed plan would allow for about 3,400 new apartments in a 30-block area surrounding the southern end of the Grand Concourse, which sits south Read More

Buy Now? No, Buy Later

Welcome to the buyer's market: Supply is up, demand is down, and prices are teetering. Brokers say buy now – after all, there are deals to be had! But what if you waited?

Here’s four areas (and one borough) where buyers would be fools to rush in now.

1. MANHATTAN In Manhattan, Read More

SoBro Sizzle Fizzles?

From the new Real Deal: For years there was a buzz about the potential of a residential boom in the South Bronx, but with the credit crunch making it nearly impossible for small-scale investors to obtain financing in the area, any sort of explosion appears to be on hold. ...

Much of SoBro's residential housing Read More

Green Jobs For the South Bronx

 Traditionally, there has been a trade-off perceived between protecting the environment and economic growth. But sustainability analysts reject this trade-off and argue that economic growth requires effective environmental stewardship. According to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, “green is the new red, white and blue.”

In his article “The Power of Green,” Friedman argues that green Read More

Moses v. Caro, Doctoroff v. Carter

Thursday night's panel on "Lessons of Robert Moses" at the Museum of the City of New York opened with the patina that the man did, at least, get things done--and that we have figured out how to do so without breaking as many eggs as Mr. Moses did. But this Bloombergian consensus was shattered Read More

South Bronx Confronts Robert Moses

Mmmm ... The Bronx! It's sometimes not until new development starts threatening a blighted area, and lots of eyeballs are focused on it from the outside, that neighborhoods develop their own organizations to improve conditions. Meet the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance: Our neighborhoods are saturated with junkyards, waste transfer stations, brownfields, and truck-dependent, polluting Read More

Living on the Street

Sheldon Solow's development near Robert Moses Park, the privatization of a public park planned for the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, the mounting constructions in downtown Manhattan, and the fight for public parks over market space in the South Bronx: The overtaking of public spaces by private investors and developers has become a regular routine Read More

Editorials

Bloomberg’s State of the City Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City address won praise from leading Democrats as well as Republicans, and with good reason. It outlined an ambitious agenda grounded in everyday reality, not in divisive ideology. Rather than rest on his achievements, the Mayor is pressing forward to new challenges. As he begins Read More

The Chelsea Marketeer Sets His Sights on SoBro

The developer who brought Chelsea Market to Manhattan now wants to replicate it in the South Bronx. Irwin Cohen, who introduced Manhattan to the concept of “food purveyors,” is floating a plan to build a new home for 16 ethnic food merchants who are about to get kicked out of the Bronx Terminal Market. The Read More

Blog Follies

Campaign blogs are, it's increasingly clear, generally a bad idea. Mostly because nobody reads them -- except your opponent's researchers. As in this release from the Bloomberg campaign: FERRER: WRONG ON HIS OWN RÉSUMÉ Ferrer personally wrote blog item telling voters that he was "educated in public schools for most of my education" - an Read More

Fish Market Move Delayed … Again

Crain's is reporting that the Fulton Fish Market's move to the Bronx is being delayed yet again. The Bronx fish market, which will supposedly generate 700 jobs in the borough and $1 billion in economic activity to the South Bronx, was supposed to be up in a few weeks' time. Janel Patterson, the flack Read More


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