Citizens Housing and Planning Council

New Web Pages CHPC Zoning Committee Zoning has a huge influence on the built environment in New York City. It determines the size and use of buildings, where they are located and the densities of the city’s neighborhoods. Since the early 1990s, CHPC's Zoning Committee has analyzed, commented and testified on Department of City Planning initiatives and new directions in zoning policy. Keep up-to-date with the work of the committee on our brand new webpage.

CHPC was a powerful voice against the early discriminatory practices at Stuyvesant Town, therefore our archival library holds hundreds of documents that shed light on the origins of this controversial housing complex. See some below:

1943 Corpus Christie Chronicle speaks out against the discrimination at Stuy Town (pdf)

1947 Supreme Court brief filed by the AJC, ACLU and NAACP - including Thurgood Marshall - against Stuyvesant Town Corp and Met Life (pdf)

1978 New York Historical Society Quarterly article on La Guardia and Stuy Town by Dominic Capeci 1978 (pdf)

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Feature of the Month
Coney Island Commons

Coney Island Commons is a partnership project by three CHPC board members - architect William Stein and developers Andrea Kretchmer and Larry Hirschfield. 196 rental apartments for low and middle income families and a YMCA community center will be built by The Kretchmer Companies, ELH Mgmt. LLC and Galaxy Contracting Corp and designed by Dattner Architects.

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