Flushing West is one of the target neighborhoods in the city’s rezoning plans but there has been very little press about the plan or community responses. What’s at stake? How will the neighborhood change and how will current residents be affected? How can you help? Suggested Community Contacts: MinKwon Center for Community Action and Chinese Community Center (CCC) of Flushing
- Brian, Claudia, Erica, Christine, Wilian
Related News and Events:
- Link to list of Citywide Rezoning References and News
- Flushing West Neighborhood Planning Study
- Sasken, S. (2015). Who owns our cities—and why this urban takeover should concern us all. The Guardian.
- Real Affordable Communities: Mayor DeBlasio and the Future of NYC, 2015 report from the Real Affordability for All Coalition
- The Future of Major Private Development (the final products of a related inquiry conducted by students in “Shaping the Future of NYC” last year)
- Coalition of Community, Faith, and Labor Organizations Launch the Flushing Rezoning Community Alliance (Nov. 5, 2015)
- Flushing community groups join together to fight for affordable housing (Nov. 9, 2015)
- Koo: Clean Creek, Then Rezone Flushing West (Nov. 19, 2015)
- Plan to Rezone Flushing West Flies Under the Radar
- Royal Flushing: A proposed rezoning could bring better waterfront access to lively Flushing West (Jan. 22, 2016)
- There will be a community meeting about this plan on Thursday, February 11th, from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Flushing YMCA 138-46 Northern Blvd. Flushing, NY 11354.
- The Hollowing out of NYC’s Industrial Zones (Feb. 16, 2016)
- Audit Faults NYC for Not Using Vacant Lots for Affordable Housing (Feb. 17, 2016)
- Doubled Up: Exploring the crowding phenomenon in NYC (Feb. 18, 2016)
- In Sunset Park, a Call for Innovation leads to fears of Gentrification (March 7, 2016)
- Making Room for Housing and Jobs: A report by the Pratt Center for Community Development that examines how rezoning industrial areas to provide space for housing may undermine housing affordability if high-wage industrial jobs are replaced with low-wage jobs in retailing and neighborhood services. (May 4, 2015)
- Celebrating the People at the Heart of the Bronx’s Jerome Avenue
- Jerome Avenue Workers’ Project
- Residents call for truly affordable housing in ‘Flushing West’ rezoning plan (March 11, 2016)
- Pols, residents vent Flushing West frustrations (March 17, 2016)
- Borough Hall Protest decries gentrification (March 30, 2016)
Hey guys! Great job narrowing down your research topic yesterday. Could someone make a post summarizing what you shared in class? Also, have you given any thought to who could be a community contact for your project? Who are the people who will be most directly affected by the rezoning? Is the MinKwon Center for Community Action or any other community based organization active in the Flushing Creek area? If there’s no organizing effort for you to connect with, maybe your project could focus on educating people in the area about what’s going on?