Sentences with phrase «vacant city lots»

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With an estimated 20 square miles of vacant land, Detroit's abandoned lots are roughly the size of Manhattan according to the Detroit Future City Report.

Hakim, a frequent partner of Kevin Maloney's Property Markets Group, is developing a commercial building on a vacant Gowanus lot and is trying to sell the 44 - story Long Island City rental tower 1 QPS.

Signs hung up in front of a vacant lot in Weeksville, Brooklyn, in 2014 by members of 596 Acres, an organization that maps vacant lots in New York City and advocates for community stewardship of th at land.

For example, the city recently passed a «no camping» ordinance to restrict the number of homeless people who were camping in city parks and vacant lots.

Even if you are a city dweller, find a park, a vacant lot or other suitable place where you can go and get enjoy some physical exercise.

Opponents of a proposed plan to build a tot lot and dog - run in historic Palmer Square urged city officials Monday to look into constructing the amenities on vacant land instead of altering the square's 19th Century character.

Also at 1 p.m., state Sen. Tony Avella and residents call on the city to transfer control of a vacant lot to the parks department so that a new park can be created, 39th Avenue and 234th Street, Queens.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer held a press conference in front of a vacant lot on West 115th Street to criticize the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development for «dragging its feet» on creating affordable housing on empty city - owned land.

U.S. Congressman Adriano Espaillat took elected officials and community members on a walking tour this Sun., Mar. 18th of vacant lots where he said that the city could build 100 percent affordable housing.

When he was an Assembly Member he did nothing, said nothing about the vacant lots in his district or around the city.

He has argued the city should transform 1,100 city - owned vacant lots into 50,000 units of affordable housing.

If the city gets its wish, the lot won't be vacant much longer.

City has stalled developing more than 1,000 vacant lots it has owned for decades, according to a report by Scott Stringer

A white paper issued by the Community United for True Affordable Housing, a coalition of Upper Manhattan elected officials and community leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan communities.

The city of Syracuse, which has given $ 1.5 million in unrestricted funds in the past, is now looking at restricting some of their funding to demolitions and maintenance of vacant lots.

City housing officials say that many of the vacant lots cited in the audit have issues that make developing them difficult.

Lower East Side residents are suing to save a decades - old garden they cultivated from a vacant lot after appeals to politicians and celebrities like «Sex in the City» star Cynthia...

By Sean Ryan A Milwaukee alderman wants the city to reject seven redevelopment proposals for a vacant lot in Bay View.

City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) laced up his working boots Tuesday morning and took to the vacant lot near the intersection of an abandoned corner property, at 24 - 19 Francis Lewis Blvd. in Whitestone, alongside property owner Robin Singh to help spread -LSB-...]

The Wauwatosa Woman's Club has asked the city to join the property containing its main building to a vacant lot it recently attempted to use for a parking lot expansion.

The formerly weed - choked vacant lot will be a classroom for a new venture called Farm School NYC: The New York City School of Urban Agriculture.

Yesterday, Public Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stronger joined Picture the Homeless to unveil legislation calling on the city to conduct a citywide count of vacant lots and buildings — a step they say could help provide homes to the city's 60,000 homeless New Yorkers.

He reintroduced an idea that he proposed in February of this year — to use some of the land on the more than 1,100 vacant lots the city already owns to build affordable housing, creating a land bank and land trust that would partner with nonprofit affordable housing developers to build what Stringer has estimated could amount to 57,000 units of affordable housing citywide.

Bradley B. Lauer Sr. and his family own more than a dozen West Side homes, apartments and vacant lots, and dutifully paid thousands of dollars in city taxes on them.

«A lot of time, city - wide candidacies are left vacant on the GOP side, and I think we are even starting to see even the district councilors a lot of times are left vacant or with token opposition.

And in February 2016, Comptroller Scott Stringer issued a report that over 1,100 vacant lots owned by the city could be used for affordable housing.

There are few city - owned vacant lots available, he noted.

SOUTH BRONX — Whoever wins the race for the vacant District 17 City Council seat will make a lot more money than their constituents.

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA, consists of five undeveloped lots just south of Delancey Street that have sat vacant for more than 40 years after the city razed the site's former tenement buildings and displaced thousands of residents.

Simek, who formerly served on the city's board of assessment review, said he wanted to use his real estate experience to help redevelop vacant lots in the ward by identifying high - quality builders and encouraging them to invest in the city.

Links found between violence and street lighting, vacant lots, parks and other modifiable city features.»

During World War II, «Victory» gardens produced 40 percent of the country's vegetables, and an overall average of 20 percent of American cities are vacant lots.

It's even mentioned that next door is a vacant lot owned by the city as to infer that is where the old house that Craig T. Nelson and his fictional family once lived until it was sucked into a supernatural vortex.

Signs hung up in front of a vacant lot in Weeksville, Brooklyn, in 2014 by members of 596 Acres, an organization that maps vacant lots in New York City and advocates for community stewardship of th at land.

Dee Snyder camps in «Clintonville,» a tent - city style protest that was held in a vacant lot in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention.

Her son eventually found the tent city set up in a vacant lot about seven miles north of the convention arena.

If students feel it was unfair that the city council chose the vacant lot for parking instead of a skateboard park, they can evaluate the records of discussions that took place and make judgments about what information was valid and what decisions were unjust.

An estimated half - million cats living in backyards, vacant lots, alleys, and numerous other outdoor locations throughout New York City.

The Museum begins excavation of an adjacent vacant lot at 142 West 125th Street, leased from the City of New York

Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan's homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Precity's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State PreCity (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press).

Margaret Morton's photographs of the dwellings that homeless individuals have assembled in public parks, vacant lots, along the waterfronts, beneath the streets, and in the abandoned buildings of New York City are combined with oral histories in Glass House, her book about thirty - five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Press).

Thirukode is the co-founder of Project For Empty Space, a nonprofit public art initiative that brings contemporary art out of institutional spaces and into vacant lots in cities.

Photographs taken in museums, hotels and vacant lots in Mexico City, Havana, and Los Angeles are the starting points for the multi-media works in the exhibition.

Farming in the city itself — on vacant lots, on the roof of an urban grocery store — is a fine ambition, but inherently limited, as today's Science Times story on vertical farming suggests.

THG's focus is now turning to historically vacant lots in the city, with the aim of rehabilitating them for more tiny homes.

Now they're scrambling to drill anywhere there's vacant land — at country clubs, parking lots, city parks, school grounds and airports.

I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.

On Sunday, March 23, CGI U and the Clinton Foundation hosted its ninth Day of Action with PHX Renews, a partnership between the City of Phoenix and Keep Phoenix Beautiful that aims to transform a previously vacant 15 - acre lot in downtown Phoenix into a vibrant and sustainable public space.

Nationwide, vacant lots in cities would total in the hundreds of thousands.

The city wouldn't have to keep mowing vacant lots.