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In the 2020s, some New York politicians pushed for ambitious plans to increase housing supply in New York by undoing some of the most restrictive zoning regulations to permit mixed-use development in areas previously exclusively for commercial use, allow accessory dwelling units in single-family zones, and allow dense housing construction near ...
New York City accounts for only 1% of United States greenhouse gas emissions while housing 2.7% of its population. [2] In September 2012, New York was named the #1 "America's Dirtiest City," by a Travel+Leisure readership survey that rated the environmental quality of 35 prominent cities in the United States.
HPD is currently in the midst of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York initiative to create and preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. By the end of 2021, the City of New York financed more than 200,000 affordable homes since 2014, breaking the all-time record previously set by former Mayor Ed Koch. [3]
The New York City fire department has responded to 229 brush fires from October 29 to Nov. 12, a record for any two-week period. 'Treacherous conditions' in NYC: Firefighters battling record ...
From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.
Polarizing pandemic-era sheds will be popping up across the Big Apple in a matter of weeks -- to the dismay of those who thought the eyesores were gone for good.
The Bruckner Interchange is a complex interchange in the New York City borough of The Bronx in the United States. The junction connects four highways: the Bruckner, Cross Bronx, and Hutchinson River Expressways, and the Hutchinson River Parkway. It was constructed in the 1960s; however, elements of the junction date as far back as the 1940s.
East Side Access (ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) two miles from its Main Line in Queens to the new Grand Central Madison station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan's East Side.