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City, AIDS Activists Clash Over Fees
Photo by: Marc Fader Betsy Idelfonso, who is HIV positive, in the bedroom she hopes her twins will share when she regains custody of them. She blames city policy changes for the seven months it took...
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Deep Concerns about ‘Three-Quarter’ Housing
Photo by: Adi Talwar Rodney Foster has lived in two three-quarter houses in central Brooklyn since 2010. His parole officer referred him to both places, though the operators required Foster to attend...
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Lawsuits Target Three-Quarter Operators
Photo by: Adi Talwar Several three-quarter houses occupy a single block of MacDonough Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. (Some buildings pictured are not three-quarters houses.) The owner of one four-story...
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Three-Quarter Houses Mix Problems with Positives
Photo by: Adi Talwar The real estate bust has resulted in the conversion of many recently constructed buildings into rooming houses, including this one in East New York. This is the final story in a...
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For Some Landlords, It's Not Easy Going Green
Photo by: NYC.gov A graph from Mayor Bloomberg's PlaNYC illustrates how crucial residential buildings are to any hopes for a greener city: Homes contribute twice as much carbon as cars and trucks in...
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Legal Questions Emerge About Citi Field Mall
Photo by: Courtesy Office of the Mayor The new Willets Point plan includes development on both sides of Citi Field: to the east, in the area known as the "iron triangle," and to the west, in a parking...
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Willets Point Developers Pitched a Casino
Photo by: Patrick Arden The new Willets Point plan has developing occurring in Willets Point itself but across the street, in a parking lot to the west of CitiField. State Assembly Speaker Sheldon...
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Lessons of Willets Point: Will A New Mayor Do Development Differently?
Photo by: Karla Ann Cote The bid to reshape Willets Point comprises some of the defining elements of the Bloomberg approach to development: looking beyond Manhattan and emphasizing environmental...
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Lessons of Willets Point: Trading Parkland for Developer's Donation
Photo by: William Alatriste /New York City Counci Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras flanked by Charles J. O'Byrne of the Related Companies at left and Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon with...
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Lessons of Willets Point: Relocation Fears for Workers
Photo by: Joey Arden Marlon Ramirez, left, and a colleague. They're among the 1,700 workers whose employers will have to relocate as the city's Willets Point redevelopment plan rolls ahead. Willets...
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