Category: What We’re Reading

Five articles curated by the Wagner Planner staff: Here’s what the Wagner Planner staff is reading. This week: implications of the budget deal, a three-part investigation of ‘ghost tags’, and a Rent Guidelines Board debate.  M.T.A. Averts Fiscal Crisis as New York Strikes Budget Deal (The New York Times) – “Janno Lieber, the authority’s chairman,… Read more What We’re Reading – May 2

Here’s what the Wagner Planner staff is reading. This week: a rising tenant movement, technology could effectively deter dangerous drivers, a new approach to renovating public housing, and meager impacts of up zonings on housing affordability. The Revolution Against Shady Landlords Has Begun (The Nation) – “Anh-Thu Nguyen, a labor organizer in Brooklyn, told me,… Read more What We’re Reading – April 18

Here’s what the Wagner Planner staff is reading. This week: a decades-long battle in the East Village continues, suburban evictions (and an eviction-crime link), plus progress on congestion pricing.  In Epic Battle for CHARAS/El Bohio Building, Owner Gregg Singer Buys Time With Bankruptcy Filing (THE CITY) – “At the first auction in 1998, activists were… Read more What We’re Reading – April 4th

Here’s what the Wagner Planner staff is reading. This week: an unprecedented rent decrease, office-to-residential conversion puzzles, and an update on NYC’s trash conundrum.  Philly Plans to Cap the Vine Street Expressway to Reconnect Chinatown (The Philadelphia Inquirer) – “The planning also will address ground-level Vine Street itself, where traffic is plentiful and fast, so… Read more What We’re Reading – March 21st

Here’s what the Wagner Planner staff is reading. This week: Cultish Bushwick influencers, Asian neighborhoods moving right, and bad bus lanes.  Welcome to the Neighborhood™ (Curbed) – “The vision of this “project” (which is not a cult) is to “bring high-agency, emotionally intelligent New Yorkers within walking distance of one another,” or, as they call… Read more What We’re Reading – March 7th