by Anthony Hidalgo | Apr 9, 2025 | Affordable Housing Plan, Albany Housing Agenda, COY Housing Recommendation, Home Forward, Housing, News
A 50-year-old building in Lower Manhattan represents a new frontier for solving New York City’s housing crisis. Thanks to an ambitious redevelopment effort, a former office building at 25 Water Street has just been transformed into over 1,300 new homes, with rents for...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 26, 2025 | Early Childhood Education, News, Shed the Shed
A proxy war against Trump’s anti-New York agenda has come to our city’s parkland, and we must not allow Trump to win it. For generations, Wollman Rink, at the heart of Central Park, has been more than just an ice-skating venue; it’s been a place of joy, community, and...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 26, 2025 | Early Childhood Education, News, Shed the Shed
The City Council on Wednesday will approve a package of five bills intended to cut back on the number of scaffolds — known as sidewalk sheds — that have long darkened New York’s streets, and improve the aesthetics of the ones that must remain up. Several of the bills...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 26, 2025 | News, Shed the Shed
The New York City Council is set to pass a package of measures Wednesday to speed up the removal of the dreary, green, wooden structures that encase apartment buildings citywide — sometimes for years at a time. The sheds, colloquially known as “scaffolding,” protect...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 26, 2025 | News, Shed the Shed
Liu and Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president, both said that sidewalk sheds set New York apart from cities in this country and in Europe. Levine said it was “hard to overstate” how sheds define the look of the city and the way the world sees New York. “When...
by Anthony Hidalgo | Mar 20, 2025 | Affordable Housing Plan, Albany Housing Agenda, COY Housing Recommendation, Home Forward, Housing, News, Right to Counsel
Moderate-income New Yorkers are increasingly becoming the face of eviction in the city, according to a new report by the Community Service Society of New York. The report titled “Preventing Eviction in New York State: What Works and What Doesn’t,” released on...
