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Curbed: NYC launches campaign to promote new tenant protections

October 22, 2019 By UrbDeZine 9 Comments

https://ny.curbed.com/2019/10/22/20925383/new-york-rent-tenants-rights-website

“Laws are only as good as the information that’s out there,” says one city official.

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Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories – Streetsblog

September 29, 2019 By UrbDeZine Leave a Comment

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/09/26/op-ed-bikelashs-latest-tactics-pedophile-smears-and-conspiracy-theories/

A Park Slope community meeting descends into silliness, shoving, and a sinister, cinematic ‘Betrayal on 14th Street.’ Can we please have some sanity?

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Opinion | The Suburbs Are Coming to a City Near You – NY Times

August 22, 2019 By UrbDeZine Leave a Comment

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opinion/sunday/the-suburbs-cities.html

Is a city still a city if urban living is a luxury good?

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Foster + Partners reveals a totally timber boathouse on the Harlem River – Archpaper.com

June 26, 2019 By UrbDeZine Leave a Comment

https://archpaper.com/2019/06/foster-partners-reveal-design-boathouse-harlem-river/

Upper Manhattan will soon get a new pitstop for rowers, as Foster + Partners has unveiled their design for a timber boathouse on the Harlem River in Inwood.

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New towers in NYC’s future – NY Times

June 22, 2019 By UrbDeZine Leave a Comment

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/realestate/new-york-citys-evolving-skyline.html

A high-rise building boom, mostly of luxury condos, has transformed New York City’s skyline in recent years — and there’s more to come.

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Why I Found My Community in a Starbucks (Not an ode to the coproration) – CityLab

June 17, 2019 By UrbDeZine Leave a Comment

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/06/finding-community-coffee-shop-starbucks-flushing-queens/591370/

At least in my Queens neighborhood, Starbucks is one of the only places I could have formed a relationship with friends who sometimes have nowhere else to go.

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New York tenants fight as landlords embrace facial recognition cameras – Guardian

June 2, 2019 By UrbDeZine Leave a Comment

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/29/new-york-facial-recognition-cameras-apartment-complex

More than 130 residents at a Brooklyn apartment complex oppose plan to use the cameras, whose use, experts say, is quietly expanding in cities

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The Surprising History of Politics and Design in New York City’s Playgrounds – CityLab

May 17, 2019 By UrbDeZine Leave a Comment

https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/05/playground-design-ideas-history-nyc-parks-healthy-kids/589591/

How the concrete jungle got its jungle gyms.

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After Hudson Yards, Sunnyside could be New York’s next megadevelopment – archpaper.com

May 11, 2019 By UrbDeZine Leave a Comment

https://archpaper.com/2019/05/sunnyside/

After New York City’s Hudson Yards megadevelopment elicited critical disappointment when it opened, our editor in chief posits Sunnyside could be next.

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The Worst Thing About Hudson Yards Isn’t the Architecture – CityLab

April 13, 2019 By UrbDeZine Leave a Comment

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/04/hudson-yards-financing-eb5-investor-visa-program-immigration/586897/

Manhattan’s luxury mega-project was financed in part by an investor visa program that was intended to help rural and distressed urban neighborhoods.

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