“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Manhattan anymore (New York, or Kansas)!”
City of Yes Articles by CNU NYC Chair John Massengale
Part One: City of Yes Proposal Is a Free Pass for Big Real Estate
Part Two: I’m a New Yorker, Not a NIMBY
Part Three: The City of Yes Will Make a Big Manhattan Mess
Part Four: The Bronx and Staten Island Too – What to Do, What to Do, What to Do?
Let’s Give City of Yes Tough Scrutiny Before We Sign Off, Says One Critic
The City of Yes and The City for All: The City Is Going Too Fast
Big Real Estate’s Continuing Stranglehold Over New York City
Location, Location, Location: Affordable Housing and Urban Form in Manhattan
Capping the Heights TBD
The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast
Read at the New York Daily News
Read at the City Club of New York
More City of Yes Articles
Quote from Mayor Adams’ signature ‘City of Yes’ housing plan passes key NYC commission: “Leah Goodridge, who voted against the plan, said that some supporters have implied that City of Yes naysayers are “only white homeowners in Staten Island and Queens who are so-called NIMBYs, and that’s it, and so this project is for Black and brown [New Yorkers].”
“I really reject that narrative,” said Goodridge, who was appointed by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. “There were lots of Black and brown New Yorkers who came and testified against this project, she added. “Precisely the wording and the framing that they used are, ‘Why are we giving away the city to private developers? What are we getting in return?’”
City Club of New York, City of Yes for Housing Opportunity: City Club Recommendations
City Club of New York, COYHO Testimony by City Club President Layla Law-Gisiko
City Club of New York, Rethinking the Housing Crisis: Beyond the Supply-Demand Dogma
CityLimits, City of Yes for Housing: See How Your Community Board & Borough President Voted
David Burney, Explaining NYC’s Arcane, and Possibly Unconstitutional, Planning and Approval Process
David Burney, Will Mayor Eric Adams’ “City of Yes” Be a City for All?
Friends of the Upper East Side, COYHO Impacts on the Upper East and West Sides with George Janes
Friends of the Upper East Side, COYHO Testimony at City Planning Commission
George Janes, City of Yes for Housing Opportunity
Historic District Council, Historic District Council’s City of Yes Advocacy
John Low-Beer, City of Yes for Housing Opportunity: The Wrong Remedy for the Wrong Problem
John Mudd, Midtown South Community Council, Testimony for the New York City Council’s Zoning Committee on the City Of Yes
Landmark West!, Is This the City You Want to Live In? How Will the Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Impact Your Neighborhood?
Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, Tell the Mayor and your City Council Representative that the latest upzoning proposal—”City of Yes: Housing Opportunity”—needs serious rethinking
New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, NYC Public Advocate’s Statement On ‘City Of Yes’ Housing Proposal
Roberta Gratz, Jane Jacobs Would Reject NYC’s Proposed “City of Yes”
Tom Angotti, Jenny Dubnau and Memo Salazar, Mayor’s City of Yes is Really a ‘City of Cake’
Village Preservation, “City of Yes” Would Allow for Bigger Taller Luxury Condo Developments While Stripping Neighborhood Zoning Protections
Village Preservation: Is a Housing ‘Shortage’ Really the Cause of Unaffordability?
Village Preservation, New Village Preservation Study Shows Neighborhoods with High Levels of Housing Construction, as Proposed By City of Yes, Overwhelmingly Become More White and Less Black and Hispanic
Village Preservation, Letter to Elected Officials and Boards
Village Preservation, COYHO Advocacy
Webinars
City of Yes For Housing Opportunity with Council Member Chris Marte, City Club of New York
City of Yes with George Janes from George Janes Associates, Alice Boyd from Movement to Protect the People, and Andrew Berman from Village Preservation, Human Scale NYC
