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mad they got stiffed basically 3 years in a row. it's bs imo, there is so much graft and bs right now with landlords as it is anything they say is crying wolf as far as I'm concerned
My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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mad they got stiffed basically 3 years in a row. it's bs imo, there is so much graft and bs right now with landlords as it is anything they say is crying wolf as far as I'm concerned
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
I don't know how to feel about this.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Yeah... I think the premise is solid long as the units move back into rent control.
There have been a lot of horror stories out of cluster sites over the years as you know and the ridiculous rents the city has paid for them.
Bronx, Brooklyn homicides spike, putting city on pace to exceed 2017, NYPD records show
There has been an increase in “gang related killings,” up 12 so far this year from five in 2017.
An uptick in homicide in the Bronx and Brooklyn could impact the city's overall statistics for the year. Photo Credit: Theodore Parisienne
By Anthony M. DeStefanoanthony.destefano@newsday.comUpdated May 16, 2018 1:15 AM
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Serious crime down despite homicide uptick: NYPD
NYPD commissioner James O’Neill credited the decline to the city’s neighborhood policing program, which began rolling out in the fall of 2016.
The increase in homicides and a nearly 34 percent jump in rape complaints are the only categories of serious crimes seeing an uptick as all serious offenses, including burglary, robbery and felonious assault, continued to decrease by about 4 percent in 2018.
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Through May 13, the city recorded 98 homicides, an increase of 4.3 percent over the 94 in the same period for 2017. Last week saw nine killings, compared with two a year earlier. For the 28-day statistical month, the NYPD recorded 33 homicides, compared with 16 a year ago.
NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill and his staff acknowledged a week ago — when homicides were still under last year’s pace — that the Bronx and parts of north Brooklyn were seeing an uptick in killings. Through Sunday, the Bronx had 32 killings, compared with 20 a year earlier, with the past 28 days showing a 500 percent increase from two homicides to 12 over the same period in 2017. Those increases, officials said, were being pushed by gang violence.
The NYPD spokesman said Tuesday that crime increases happened from time to time but that it wasn’t time for anyone to panic because crime was still trending downward.
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“It is not a smooth decline; it is a bit of a jagged decline,” the spokesman said of the homicide trends.
Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD detective sergeant and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, agreed that there was no need for alarm.
“But if it is a gang war brewing, you have to keep a lid on it before it gets out of control,” Giacalone said.
Gang warfare, especially in the summer months when more people are outdoors, can lead to innocent bystanders being wounded or killed, he said.
There has been an increase in “gang related killings,” up 12 so far this year from five in 2017.
An uptick in homicide in the Bronx and Brooklyn could impact the city's overall statistics for the year. Photo Credit: Theodore Parisienne
By Anthony M. DeStefanoanthony.destefano@newsday.comUpdated May 16, 2018 1:15 AM
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Serious crime down despite homicide uptick: NYPD
NYPD commissioner James O’Neill credited the decline to the city’s neighborhood policing program, which began rolling out in the fall of 2016.
The increase in homicides and a nearly 34 percent jump in rape complaints are the only categories of serious crimes seeing an uptick as all serious offenses, including burglary, robbery and felonious assault, continued to decrease by about 4 percent in 2018.
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Through May 13, the city recorded 98 homicides, an increase of 4.3 percent over the 94 in the same period for 2017. Last week saw nine killings, compared with two a year earlier. For the 28-day statistical month, the NYPD recorded 33 homicides, compared with 16 a year ago.
NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill and his staff acknowledged a week ago — when homicides were still under last year’s pace — that the Bronx and parts of north Brooklyn were seeing an uptick in killings. Through Sunday, the Bronx had 32 killings, compared with 20 a year earlier, with the past 28 days showing a 500 percent increase from two homicides to 12 over the same period in 2017. Those increases, officials said, were being pushed by gang violence.
The NYPD spokesman said Tuesday that crime increases happened from time to time but that it wasn’t time for anyone to panic because crime was still trending downward.
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“It is not a smooth decline; it is a bit of a jagged decline,” the spokesman said of the homicide trends.
Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD detective sergeant and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, agreed that there was no need for alarm.
“But if it is a gang war brewing, you have to keep a lid on it before it gets out of control,” Giacalone said.
Gang warfare, especially in the summer months when more people are outdoors, can lead to innocent bystanders being wounded or killed, he said.
Jerome Avenue Auto Firms Say City’s Relocation Fund is too Small
By Sadef Ali Kully | May 8, 2018
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The rough footprint of the recently passed Jerome Avenue rezoning.
Amid an uproar among Bronx automotive businesses, the city’s Department of Small Business Services has announced the availability of financial assistance for the auto-body shops that might be forced to relocate after the City Council passed a rezoning for the Jerome Avenue corridor last month.
The rezoning encourages residential and commercial development in a 92-block area including the Jerome Avenue corridor, most of which is currently zoned for auto-uses, and some neighborhood crossstreets. The rezoning would require a percentage of all new development to be income-targeted under the city’s mandatory inclusionary housing policy, and due to the current weakness of the market, the Department of City Planning predicts that new construction in the near term would be subsidized and likely 100-percent income-targeted.
During the rezoning debate, concerns were often voiced about the fate of the auto businesses, which supporters say provide decent, blue-collar wages. Property owners who have a chance to transform their property from accommodating low-lying auto shops to instead hosting rental buildings are likely to uproot the auto firms, and there is evidence that is already happening.
SBS Commissioner Gregg Bishop said in City Council testimony on Monday that his office has made available an estimated $1.5 million in relocation grants for the auto businesses. Also on Monday, , SBS tweeted about a mobile office on Jerome Avenue on Wednesday with resources on financing for businesses being affected by the measure.
But Pedro J. Estevez, the president of the United Auto Merchants Association, described the funding as insult to injury, “This is worse than Willets Point. Willets Point was dressed in a tuxedo. Jerome Avenue is in shorts and a T-shirt,” he said during a phone interview, referring to the city’s botched relocation plan for auto businesses displaced by a troubled development project launched near CitiField during the Bloomberg administration
Estevez said he will be testifying Wednesday morning at the City Planning Commission hearing about how small automotive businesses have already been affected by the rezoning.
According to the Department of City Planning website, rezoning measure went through a seven-month review process during which community members had the opportunity to make official comments on the proposal before it was approved by the City Council.
By Sadef Ali Kully | May 8, 2018
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The rough footprint of the recently passed Jerome Avenue rezoning.
Amid an uproar among Bronx automotive businesses, the city’s Department of Small Business Services has announced the availability of financial assistance for the auto-body shops that might be forced to relocate after the City Council passed a rezoning for the Jerome Avenue corridor last month.
The rezoning encourages residential and commercial development in a 92-block area including the Jerome Avenue corridor, most of which is currently zoned for auto-uses, and some neighborhood crossstreets. The rezoning would require a percentage of all new development to be income-targeted under the city’s mandatory inclusionary housing policy, and due to the current weakness of the market, the Department of City Planning predicts that new construction in the near term would be subsidized and likely 100-percent income-targeted.
During the rezoning debate, concerns were often voiced about the fate of the auto businesses, which supporters say provide decent, blue-collar wages. Property owners who have a chance to transform their property from accommodating low-lying auto shops to instead hosting rental buildings are likely to uproot the auto firms, and there is evidence that is already happening.
SBS Commissioner Gregg Bishop said in City Council testimony on Monday that his office has made available an estimated $1.5 million in relocation grants for the auto businesses. Also on Monday, , SBS tweeted about a mobile office on Jerome Avenue on Wednesday with resources on financing for businesses being affected by the measure.
But Pedro J. Estevez, the president of the United Auto Merchants Association, described the funding as insult to injury, “This is worse than Willets Point. Willets Point was dressed in a tuxedo. Jerome Avenue is in shorts and a T-shirt,” he said during a phone interview, referring to the city’s botched relocation plan for auto businesses displaced by a troubled development project launched near CitiField during the Bloomberg administration
Estevez said he will be testifying Wednesday morning at the City Planning Commission hearing about how small automotive businesses have already been affected by the rezoning.
According to the Department of City Planning website, rezoning measure went through a seven-month review process during which community members had the opportunity to make official comments on the proposal before it was approved by the City Council.
Bronx, Brooklyn homicides spike, putting city on pace to exceed 2017, NYPD records show
There has been an increase in “gang related killings,” up 12 so far this year from five in 2017.
An uptick in homicide in the Bronx and Brooklyn could impact the city's overall statistics for the year. Photo Credit: Theodore Parisienne
By Anthony M. DeStefanoanthony.destefano@newsday.comUpdated May 16, 2018 1:15 AM
RECOMMENDED READING
Serious crime down despite homicide uptick: NYPD
NYPD commissioner James O’Neill credited the decline to the city’s neighborhood policing program, which began rolling out in the fall of 2016.
The increase in homicides and a nearly 34 percent jump in rape complaints are the only categories of serious crimes seeing an uptick as all serious offenses, including burglary, robbery and felonious assault, continued to decrease by about 4 percent in 2018.
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Through May 13, the city recorded 98 homicides, an increase of 4.3 percent over the 94 in the same period for 2017. Last week saw nine killings, compared with two a year earlier. For the 28-day statistical month, the NYPD recorded 33 homicides, compared with 16 a year ago.
NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill and his staff acknowledged a week ago — when homicides were still under last year’s pace — that the Bronx and parts of north Brooklyn were seeing an uptick in killings. Through Sunday, the Bronx had 32 killings, compared with 20 a year earlier, with the past 28 days showing a 500 percent increase from two homicides to 12 over the same period in 2017. Those increases, officials said, were being pushed by gang violence.
The NYPD spokesman said Tuesday that crime increases happened from time to time but that it wasn’t time for anyone to panic because crime was still trending downward.
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“It is not a smooth decline; it is a bit of a jagged decline,” the spokesman said of the homicide trends.
Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD detective sergeant and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, agreed that there was no need for alarm.
“But if it is a gang war brewing, you have to keep a lid on it before it gets out of control,” Giacalone said.
Gang warfare, especially in the summer months when more people are outdoors, can lead to innocent bystanders being wounded or killed, he said.
98 murders for a city of 8 million is low as hell
hope this drives cacs out.Bronx, Brooklyn homicides spike, putting city on pace to exceed 2017, NYPD records show
There has been an increase in “gang related killings,” up 12 so far this year from five in 2017.
An uptick in homicide in the Bronx and Brooklyn could impact the city's overall statistics for the year. Photo Credit: Theodore Parisienne
By Anthony M. DeStefanoanthony.destefano@newsday.comUpdated May 16, 2018 1:15 AM
RECOMMENDED READING
Serious crime down despite homicide uptick: NYPD
NYPD commissioner James O’Neill credited the decline to the city’s neighborhood policing program, which began rolling out in the fall of 2016.
The increase in homicides and a nearly 34 percent jump in rape complaints are the only categories of serious crimes seeing an uptick as all serious offenses, including burglary, robbery and felonious assault, continued to decrease by about 4 percent in 2018.
ADVERTISING
Through May 13, the city recorded 98 homicides, an increase of 4.3 percent over the 94 in the same period for 2017. Last week saw nine killings, compared with two a year earlier. For the 28-day statistical month, the NYPD recorded 33 homicides, compared with 16 a year ago.
NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill and his staff acknowledged a week ago — when homicides were still under last year’s pace — that the Bronx and parts of north Brooklyn were seeing an uptick in killings. Through Sunday, the Bronx had 32 killings, compared with 20 a year earlier, with the past 28 days showing a 500 percent increase from two homicides to 12 over the same period in 2017. Those increases, officials said, were being pushed by gang violence.
The NYPD spokesman said Tuesday that crime increases happened from time to time but that it wasn’t time for anyone to panic because crime was still trending downward.
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“It is not a smooth decline; it is a bit of a jagged decline,” the spokesman said of the homicide trends.
Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD detective sergeant and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, agreed that there was no need for alarm.
“But if it is a gang war brewing, you have to keep a lid on it before it gets out of control,” Giacalone said.
Gang warfare, especially in the summer months when more people are outdoors, can lead to innocent bystanders being wounded or killed, he said.
really nikka
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Fast Money & Foreign Objects
I hope it goes through. The people bytching are townhouse and condo/co-op owners.