What’s News, Breaking: Thursday, December 8, 2022
‘GET STUFF BUILT’PLAN AIMS TO REDUCE WHAT MAYOR CALLS BUREAUCRATIC OBSTACLES: Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday, December 8 unveiled “Get Stuff Built,” a comprehensive, three-pronged effort to address New York City’s affordable housing crisis and underlying housing shortage by rapidly accelerating the pace of housing production, with a “moonshot” goal of meeting the need for 500,000 new homes over the next decade. His office has released the Building and Land Use Approval Streamlining Task Force (BLAST)’s report, titled “Get Stuff Built,” a report that includes 111 concrete actions the city will take to create more housing more quickly by cutting red tape, streamlining processes, and removing what they call bureaucratic obstacles that are slowing housing production and economic recovery
It remains to be seen whether these projects would still have to undergo the Uniform Land Use Review Process and approval by the local Community Boards.
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STABBING VICTIM WAS FROM BROOKLYN: The NYPD has identified the victim of a stabbing in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday night just after 11 p.m. Police and EMS who responded found a 24-year-old male, now identified as Brooklyn resident Carlos Rosario of Powell Street, in Brownsville.