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Developers closed on a $66 million construction loan for phase one of the Greenpoint Hospital Campus redevelopment project in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
How the hunt to house New York City's homeless turned into a hornet’s nest of bureaucracy
A consortium of developers have secured a $600-million loan to renovate more than 1,600 units in the New York City Housing Authority's portfolio.
Brooklyn: The recent op-ed about the Gowanus rezoning (“The Gowanus rezoning makes us sick,” April 25) includes a staggering number of outright lies and misleading statements about the ongoing cleanup of the Public Place development site, also known as Gowanus Green.
President-elect Joe Biden (Getty Images) For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units. But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been — then head of the New York City’s main housing agency — getting local buy-in for projects could be “extraordinarily difficult.” Federal housing off...