Crime wave hits bodegas, Flushing rezoning gets approval, & more

By Emily Myers | December 10, 2020 - 10:30AM

There's been a 63 percent increase in the number of shootings at the city's bodegas with six people killed (The New York Times)

A controversial plan to rezone the waterfront in Flushing was approved by a City Council committee after promises to add hundreds of jobs and more affordable housing (Gothamist)

The newest park under the Brooklyn Bridge will be named Emily Roebling Plaza after the engineer who helped design and build the iconic span (New York Post)

Mark your calendars: The public review period for the rezoning of Gowanus starts on January 19th (Brooklyn Paper)

A new NYC real-estate obsession: Move for a better deal after landlord asks for more money, then spite-watch the falling rent on your old place (Curbed)

A humpback whale was spotted in the Hudson River breaching near the Statue of Liberty (NBC News)

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Emily Myers is a real estate writer and podcast host. As the former host of the Brick Underground podcast, she earned four silver awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Emily studied journalism at the University of the Arts, London, earned an MA Honors degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and lived for a decade in California.

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