By Gregg McQueen View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jason Jaye (@jayeuptown) on Jul 13, 2020 at 7:26am PDT The legal battle over the city’s attempt to rezone Inwood is headed to the state’s highest court.…
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An appeals court has reinstated the city’s plan to rezone Inwood. In a unanimous 5-0 ruling issued on Thursday, a panel of New York State Appellate Court judges reversed an earlier decision by a lower court to nullify the…
Cheryl Pahaham, Phil Simpson, Ava Farkas and Paloma Lara wrote an outstanding piece in the NY Daily News with the apt title: The right way to rezone Inwood: The city failed in its responsibility to address local concerns and…
By Gregg McQueen The din on Dyckman was real. Christmas came early this year for Inwood residents who oppose the city’s attempt to rezone their neighborhood. Word came on December 19 that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Verna Saunders had…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cole Thompson (@inwood_cole) on Dec 20, 2019 at 5:39am PST “Incomplete, superficial.” A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has struck down the city’s attempt to rezone Inwood, saying that the City…
A blockbuster new report paints a damning picture of how city-led rezonings in the past have led to the displacement of a significant number of Black and Latino residents of those neighborhoods. The study also emphasizes the crucial need…
The struggle continues. Please come out to the Church of the Good Shepherd auditorium on Saturday, May 4, 2019 for rezoning updates as well as a film screening. This event will help raise additional funds for that lawsuit if…
Back in July 31, 2018 many in the community gathered for a rally organized by our Congressman Adriano Espaillat to protest the defilement of our beloved Fort Tryon Park by white-supremacist group Identity Evropa. The Uptown Collective actually broke…
Story by Sherry Mazzocchi After “exhaustive and ultimately futile” requests for the city to thoroughly examine the impacts of rezoning Inwood, Northern Manhattan residents filed a lawsuit against the city earlier this month alleging, among other things, that the city’s…
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