State Assemblyman Charles Baron says that any development in East New York under the current proposal will be bad news for current residents. “My man here said that gentrification is coming whether you like it or not,” he said, pointing at a Department of City Planning employee sitting in the […]
Author: Maura Ewing
East New Yorkers demand to know who will be developing their neighborhood
Residents of East New York continue to mobilize against a city-sponsored rezoning plan for their neighborhood focused on whether the result will be the displacement of they and their neighbors. The de Blasio Administration has failed to win a single endorsement from any community groups. The growing opposition was on […]
Belmont Metals is Rooted in East New York, but not because of East New Yorkers
Family pride is tied close to locality at Belmont Metals, according to Michael Henning, the company’s vice president of marketing. The company has been on the same plot of East New York land since it was founded in 1896, at which point it was his great-great grandfather’s backyard. […]
Housing is sure to come to East New York, but will middle-class jobs for current residents follow?
Community leaders in East New York are demanding that the city protect and invest in the neighborhood’s industrial businesses—a source of much-needed middle class employment—as part of their plan to rezone the area. East New York’s Industrial Business Zone (IBZ), which is currently home to 45 industrial and manufacturing […]