Rezoning

Voices Of The Everyday People, a community-based advocacy organization, plans to file a lawsuit Monday challenging the Department of City Planning’s 125th Street rezoning proposal, the organization announced at a meeting Saturday afternoon.

Racial and religious tensions took the forefront at Saturday’s Coalition to Save Harlem meeting, where community members protested the 125th Street rezoning proposal to a tense crowd.

The City Planning Commission voted to approve its plan to transform the face of 125th Street Monday, while local Harlem activists vowed to continue fighting against the city’s vision.

Advocates of a recent proposal to the New York City Council, known as Intro 685 or the Local Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Law, hope to crack down on the increasingly controversial issue of racial segregation within city residences.

On a blustery Wednesday morning, Harlem residents gathered at City College of New York to discuss the winds of change the city has planned for 125th Street.

The New York City Council paved the way for Columbia’s Manhattanville expansion on Dec. 19 when it approved the University’s plan for land rezoning.

Community Board 9 committee members voted to approve the Department of City Planning’s proposal to change the face of 125th Street at a public hearing Monday evening.

The New York City Planning Commission will vote on Columbia’s proposal to rezone Manhattanville and Community Board 9’s plan for the area’s future at a meeting today.

Members of Manhattan’s Community Board 10 voiced their concerns about the New York City Planning Commission’s proposed “river-to-river” rezoning of 125th Street at a meeting last night held in the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building.