The shots about to be sky highNYC got a clue on all those empty buildings.
Hopefully most of the proposed housing goes to true working class residents.
August 17, 2023 12:09 PM
Adams wants to rezone 42 Midtown blocks, boost housing citywide
NICK GARBER
Adams wants to rezone 42 Midtown blocks, boost housing citywide
City Hall revealed details about its plan to convert vacant Manhattan buildings into apartments.www.crainsnewyork.com
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Mayor Eric Adams announced new housing initiatives in a mostly-vacant Midtown office building, including details about a planned rezoning of Midtown South (map inset).
The city will rezone more than 40 blocks in the Garment District, NoMad and Chelsea and launch an effort to rewrite the city’s zoning code in the coming months in hopes of chipping away at New York City’s desperate housing
shortage, Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday.
The efforts center largely on converting vacant Manhattan office buildings into housing, which City Hall says could produce as many as 20,000 new homes for 40,000 people over the next decade.
Adams wants to rezone NYC’s Garment District for residential use to ease housing crisis
Adams wants to rezone NYC’s Garment District for residential use to ease housing crisis
Mayor Eric Adams is looking at rezoning barely-used manufacturing centers in the Garment District and Chelsea for residential use to help ease the Big Apple’s housing crisis.nypost.com
My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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The 7 Ideas in Mayor Adams’ Housing Plan, and How It Gets Built
Building “a little more housing in every neighborhood” may seem like a commonsense plan for a city with a massive housing crisis, but a long, complicated and possibly contentious review awaits.
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43. Invest in year-round employment for youth
Yvonne M. Brathwaite, Chief Program and Policy Officer, Red Hook Initiative Young people in Brooklyn want to work, but the youth unemployment rate in the city was much higher than in the rest of the state (14.5 percent vs 11.4 percent). New York City’s BIPOC youth in particular continue to face higher unemployment rates than their white counterparts and BIPOC youth in other parts of the state.15 Community-based organizations in Brooklyn understand that young people need meaningful opportunities to learn about careers, practice leadership and professionalism, learn critical financial management skills, and contribute to their family’s income. While the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program attempts to address this challenge, it only does so for six weeks during the summer. Moreover, although the city’s Work, Learn, & Grow program provides school-year employment opportunities, it reaches a relatively small number of young people and doesn’t include 14- and 15-year-olds. Local nonprofits are able to connect with young people and offer these opportunities at a neighborhood level. For example, the Red Hook Initiative (RHI) pays out approximately $400,000 annually to high school students and young adults engaged in workforce development training, subsidized internships, and part-time afterschool and summer jobs, as well as our intensive RHI Fellowship Program. City Council and Mayor Adams should allocate more funds to invest in community organizations that pay youth year-round and couple these efforts with social-emotional support and other skills-development activities. This would allow us to reach even more young people, leading to better lifelong outcomes for Brooklyn’s youth, a more robust workforce, and a stronger borough- and city-wide economybeen saying this is what the government needs to be doing so kids first experience to earning an income isn't thru crime. it's probably more difficult for them to do adapt to a 9-5 after that fast money lifestyle. it should be every local governments priority.