Print this issue of CityLand on your color printer and you will be able to enjoy the October issue of CityLand just as you have enjoyed the monthly printed CityLand issues over the past eight years. The issue contains all the articles uploaded in the last month, as well as the charts that comprehensively recount the prior month’s land use activity.
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Print this issue of CityLand on your color printer and you will be able to enjoy the September issue of CityLand just as you have enjoyed the monthly printed CityLand issues over the past eight years. The issue contains all the articles uploaded in the last month, as well as the charts that comprehensively recount the prior month’s land use activity.
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Print this issue of CityLand on your color printer and you will be able to enjoy the June issue of CityLand just as you have enjoyed the monthly printed CityLand issues over the past eight years. The pdf issue contains the articles and images uploaded in June, as well as the familiar charts from CityLand that comprehensively recount the prior month’s land use activity.
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This article was originally published on 7/20/2012 (see below for update).
NYU agreed to limit heights of the Zipper Building and Boomerang Buildings, and to provide community center if no public school is built on site. On July 17, 2012, the City Council’s Land Use Committee modified New York University’s campus expansion proposal in Greenwich Village. Opposition to the project, which had already been reduced by the City Planning Commission, remained when it … <Read More>
Print this issue of CityLand on your color printer and you will be able to enjoy the June issue of CityLand just as you have enjoyed the monthly printed CityLand issues over the past eight years. The pdf issue contains the articles and images uploaded in June, as well as the familiar charts from CityLand that comprehensively recount the prior month’s land use activity.
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This article was originally published on 10/15/2011 (see below for update).
Dissent argued that City only belatedly added consideration of rezoning’s impact on low-income residents. In April 2009, the Department of City Planning proposed a 128-block contextual rezoning of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Planning sought to preserve the residential neighborhood’s built character while allowing new construction at a height and scale consistent with existing development. The proposal called for establishing height limits, mapping new … <Read More>