arrow The view of Fordham Road from the elevated 4 train subway stop in the West Bronx. quiggyt4 / Flickr
As New York City enters a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented array of economic devastation trails in its wake. In the West Bronx, looming damage can be seen in the large number of eviction filings, not executed and on hold thanks to a state-issued moratorium.
Even as lawmakers work to extend the moratorium, eviction filings persist. And they’re most prevalent within the Bronx’s 14th City Council District, according to a March report by the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development [ANHD]. The housing think tank found 40,000 eviction proceedings initiated in New York since March 2020, with the bulk concentrated in the Bronx.
UpdatedThu, Apr 29, 2021 at 12:49 pm ET
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Rents dropped in Forest Hills and rose in other nearby central Queens neighborhoods that were hardest-hit by the pandemic. (Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock)
FOREST HILLS, QUEENS Rents in New York City hit record lows during the first quarter of 2021, according to a new study, and while rents dropped in Forest Hills they rose in other nearby central Queens neighborhoods, highlighting disparities in the borough.
The report, released by StreetEasy last Friday found that NYC rents, which have been precipitously dropping throughout the pandemic, hit record lows across the city during the past few months, including in Queens where rents dropped below $2,000 for the first time in eight years.
UpdatedThu, May 6, 2021 at 3:10 pm ET
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A residential street in Bayside. (Google Maps)
BAYSIDE, QUEENS Rents in New York City hit record lows during the first quarter of 2021, according to a new study, and while rents dropped in Bayside they rose in some central Queens neighborhoods, highlighting disparities in the borough.
The report, released by StreetEasy last Friday found that NYC rents, which have been precipitously dropping throughout the pandemic, hit record lows across the city during the past few months, including in Queens where rents dropped below $2,000 for the first time in eight years.
According to the study s data, the rents in the primarily white, wealthy neighborhood of Bayside dropped by 8.1 percent year-over-year.
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The white colonial at 2 Orchard Road is sorely in need of an update. Its orange and yellow floral wallpaper and abundant wooden cabinetry call to mind the year it was built: 1970.
That same year, a study found, the Connecticut town where it sits, Woodbridge, had severely restrictive zoning and, not coincidentally, was among the state’s most homogenous.
More problematic than the Orchard Road home’s dated decor, some say, is that the affordability and diversity of the largely white enclave northwest of New Haven has hardly changed, either.
To spur reform, the nonprofit Open Communities Alliance, which is leasing the single-family home on 1.5 acres and has the option to buy it at a steep discount, is seeking to raze and replace it with a four-unit building including at least two low-income rentals. The civil rights attorneys behind the effort are calling on Woodbridge officials to permit such multifamily construction throughout the town.