Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

Gov. Hochul’s Penn Station Tax Giveaway Makes Less Sense Than Ever

By David Meyer | Mar 6, 2023 | No Comments

Emails show collaboration between the state's economic development agency and a real estate firm headed by a major donor to Gov. Hochul. Will taxpayers be holding the bag (again)?

Manhattan Council Member Kristin Richardson Jordan at a rally to stop the truck depot last month at the site where a developer wanted to build two towers (inset). Photo: Julianne Cuba

Truck Depot Developer Wants to Restart His Bid for ‘Affordable’ Housing — But How Affordable?

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 2, 2023 | No Comments

A would-be developer who opened a truck depot after his quest to rezone a Harlem lot for housing was blocked by the neighborhood's Council member is peddling a new proposal that would result in more affordable housing than the original effort — but not as affordable as the lawmaker wants.

The new truck depot opened in Harlem on Wednesday. Photo: Henry Beers Shenk

‘Park Your Fleet’: Harlem Residents Decry Newly Opened Truck Depot On Site of Proposed Housing

By Julianne Cuba and Henry Beers Shenk | Jan 19, 2023 | No Comments

A neighborhood that needs more housing and less pollution got the opposite.

A Manhattan judge dismissed a lawsuit citing the new so-called green amendment against the controversial Two Bridges project.

State’s ‘Green Amendment’ Evoked in Lawsuit Against Two Bridges Mega-Development

By Julianne Cuba | Nov 22, 2022 | No Comments

Will the court rule against urban development — which by definition is far more polluting than, say, an open field of trees — or rule in favor of it on the grounds that dense housing is better for the environment than sprawl?

There's Steve Roth and his headwinds. Photo: Streetsblog Photoshop Desk

Thursday’s Headlines: Strong Headwinds, Weak Streetscape Edition

By Streetsblog Editorial Board | Nov 3, 2022 | No Comments

Yesterday's big story was the announcement by Steve Roth of the cash-strapped real estate giant Vornado that its plans to develop skyscrapers around Penn Station had been put on hold for a while. Plus other news.

What would have been, the One45 development is now slated to be a truck depot. Source: Department of City Planning

Harlem Environmental Justice Group Blasts Developer for Truck Depot

By Julianne Cuba | Oct 14, 2022 | No Comments

Members of the Harlem community are decrying a developer's plan to build a controversial truck depot, warning that the decision to put profit over people’s health will send more pollution-spewing big rigs into the low-income community of color and worsen the environmental injustice already borne by the neighborhood.

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