Dear New Yorkers,
They’re buildin’ on up in Bed-Stuy.
We have our first glance at a project that would double the size of the historic Restoration Plaza on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, adding 840,000 square feet of office space in multiple towers designed by Sir David Adjaye — the same architect who designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
It will include a 16-story and a 13-story tower, plus a four-story commercial building.
A peek at its future comes from environmental review documents filed with the Department of City Planning. Construction will take at least eight years and a public hearing on the plan will take place next month.
Read more about the transformative project for Bedford-Stuyvesant here.
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- As businesses selling unlicensed cannabis have proliferated, robberies at smoke shops more than quadrupled in 2022, an NYPD leader told a City Council hearing yesterday. That’s nearly one robbery for every two shops in the city.
- If private-sector nurses got a better contract recently, why can’t public nurses get one, too? That’s what health care workers from the city’s public hospitals are asking as they gear up to renegotiate their contract. Dozens of nurses for NYC Health + Hospitals picketed the agency’s Lower Manhattan headquarters, demanding staffing standards on par with those recently won in a nurse strike.
- Mayor Eric Adams is pushing for spending cuts — but tax revenue projections are rising. The same scenario is likely to play out in Albany in a few weeks. While every city and state budget sparks a tug of war between those who want to spend more and those who want to spend less, the gulf in outlooks between the camps is much wider in recent years. Here’s the latest.
- See how New York City’s doing with our newsroom’s economic recovery tracker.
- For the latest local numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations, testing rates and more, check our coronavirus tracker.
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