The Opportunity Zone initiative was designed to re-structure incentives to encourage development in underserved areas. But it could also exacerbate the affordability crisis in Brooklyn by giving huge tax breaks to upscale developments.
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Both a raised bike path and action by police has been ineffective in deterring delivery vehicles from parking in the bike lanes, endangering cyclists, advocates say.
Park Slope: A Public School Preps for New Homeless Students
Parents of children at P.S. 124 are both welcoming and worried.
Bed-Stuy Smells a Rat
The city has a plan to kill 70% of the rodents there, but some residents will believe it when they see it.