Energy & Environment
Borough President Eric Adams, Representative Carolyn Maloney and local activists camped out near Bushwick Inlet Park this past Saturday, calling on the city to complete the promised park and deliver needed green space to Williamsburg residents. The park was proposed to help offset community impacts of a previous rezoning that permitted high-end condo and rental developments, but its completion has been complicated due to industrial pollution clean-up and land acquisition from private owners. [New York Times]
Estimated subsidy payments to New York’s nuclear facilities have soared to $965 million over the first two years of the Clean Energy Standard program, far exceeding initial estimates of $59 to $658 million through 2023. [Albany Times Union]
Community Development & Design
L+M Developers, Hornig Capital Partners and SBH Health System are putting their heads together in the Bronx to create an affordable housing project that meets both the housing and health needs of low-income residents. [Wall Street Journal] [[Learn more about the intersection between urban development and public health in RPA’s new study, State of the Region’s Health, released this week. ]]
A bill in Albany that would cede power to New York City for the removal of zoning caps without state oversight would help address the city’s affordable housing shortage, says RPA’s Moses Gates in a Crain’s New York op-ed. [Crain’s New York]
A New Jersey appellate court ruled Monday that towns and cities across the state aren’t obligated to meet affordable-housing requirements that accrued during a 16-year period when the state failed to adopt and enforce them. [Wall Street Journal]
Transportation
Work has stopped on a number of NJ infrastructure projects previously funded by the state’s Transportation Trust Fund, putting potentially thousands of people out of work. [WNYC]
The MTA launched eTix this past week, a new app that will allow passengers riding Metro North or the Long Island Rail Road to purchase tickets via their smart phone. [New York Daily News]
Photo: Bushwick Inlet by ryan kuonen // Flickr Creative Commons