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Soho/Noho article was an attack on housing justice movement
Without some upzoning as an incentive to create mixed-income housing in Soho and Noho, developers will just build more hotels and office buildings, like the 20-story office tower planned at the former Bowery Bar site, above, the writer argues. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Soho/Noho article was an attack on housing justice movement

April 15, 2021

BY STEVEN HERRICK | Gerald Flynn’s April 9 editorial in The Village Sun masquerading as a news article, “Nonprofits behind Soho/Noho rezoning are packed with…

Groups from across city to protest Johnson’s long-range planning bill
Critics warn that a long-range planning bill being fast-tracked by Council Speaker Corey Johnson, left, would create an unaccountable "planning czar," like Robert Moses, seen in the 1930s with a model of his hoped-for Brooklyn Battery Bridge project, right. Johnson, though, says the bill would empower communities. (Courtesy Citywide People's Land Use Alliance)

Groups from across city to protest Johnson’s long-range planning bill

March 10, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated March 10, 10:15 p.m.: Go down, Moses — as in, go away! Charging that New York doesn’t need a 21st-century…

Scrap ill-conceived long-term planning scheme
Powerful planning czar Robert Moses with a model of his hoped-for Battery Bridge project in the 1930s. It took an order from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to block the embattled bridge project and get the lower-impact Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel built instead. (C.M. Stieglitz, World Telegram / Library of Congress)

Scrap ill-conceived long-term planning scheme

March 1, 2021

BY SEAN SWEENEY | The City Council has introduced legislation to amend the City Charter to create an expensive, “comprehensive,” long-term land-use plan, supervised by…

What kind of planning do we want? Not another Robert Moses!
The writer warns that a proposed law for long-range planning would steer development to already overbuilt neighborhoods in the city's historic core — areas already aggressively coveted by Big Real Estate seeking maximum profits. The law would also be fundamentally antidemocratic, in her view.

What kind of planning do we want? Not another Robert Moses!

February 20, 2021

BY LYNN ELLSWORTH | In 1961, Jane Jacobs, author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” called city planning “a pseudo-science” that had…

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