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    City Planning Creates Plan Responding to Bushwick’s Rapid Development

    Department Of City Planning  •  Community Development  •  Bushwick, Brooklyn

    NYC Department of City Planning

    The plan will address community concerns including affordable housing, open space, transportation safety, and economic development. On April 24, 2019, Department of City Planning Director Marisa Lago released the Bushwick Neighborhood Plan Update. The plan was created in response to the neighborhood’s rapid development, population growth, resident displacement, and lack of affordable housing from an increase in market-rate construction. (more…)

    Tags : Brooklyn, Bushwick, Bushwick Neighborhood Plan Update, Department of City Planning
    Date: 05/10/2019
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    Mayor Announces $17.5M Allocation for Bushwick Inlet Park

    Office of the Mayor  •  City Parks  •  Williamsburg, Brooklyn

    Mayor Bill de Blasio. Image credit: CityLand

    The de Blasio administration furthers efforts to create more public park space for the North Brooklyn community. On October 31, 2017, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he will allocate $17.5 million for the development and remediation of two parcels of parkland at Bushwick Inlet Park. $7.7 million of the allocated funds will go towards developing the 50 Kent site into a new park while the remaining $9.8 million will go toward the remediation and development of two parcels of parkland at the Motiva site.

    Last year, the City purchased the final parcel of land needed for the total acquisition of the park site. Since then, 3.5 acres have been completed and the park has been opened to the public. Currently, the park has a multi-purpose field and an environmentally-friendly building for community activities and incorporates both natural and urban elements of the surrounding community. (more…)

    Tags : Assembly Member Joseph Lentol, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Bushwick, Bushwick Inlet Park, Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, Council Member Stephen Levin, Department of Parks and Recreation, Mayor Bill de Blasio, North Brooklyn, Williamsburg
    Date: 11/07/2017
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