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Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City
Monday, December 12, 2016 at 7:00PM

Abrons Arts Center, Playhouse Theater
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
F to Delancey; J/M to Essex; B/D to Grand; M14A


Book launch of Zoned Out! (UR Press, 2016). Join community organizers and authors in highlighting how City zoning policies have perpetuated racial segregation, gentrification and displacement in neighborhoods like the Lower East Side and Chinatown. Discussion includes a look at community-led rezoning plan as solution to protect the area.

Panel Speakers:

Editor & Contributor Tom Angotti is Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College, the Graduate Center, and City University of New York, and Director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development. He is author of New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, which won the 2009 Davidoff Book Award.

Contributor Samuel Stein is a PhD student in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center and holds a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College. In addition to teaching and studying urban geography, he worked as a researcher, organizer, and planner on numerous New York City union campaigns, tenant mobilizations, and public policy initiatives.

Member of Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side Louise Velez is a native Puerto Rican and a long-time Lower East Side resident. In the 1970s she began organizing with fellow residents against unsafe housing conditions, evictions and displacement in the neighborhood. Velez is a member of Mujeres y Hombres Luchadores, and a Board Member of National Mobilization Against SweatShops (NMASS), where she is currently organizing public housing residents to demand repairs and to stop the sale of public land and assets.

Member or Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side Jei Fong is a staff member of Chinese Staff & Workers' Association with over 10 years of experience organizing workers in the workplace and community.

Editor/ Contributor [for Q&A] Sylvia Morse received her Master of Urban Planning degree from CUNY Hunter College, where she focused on housing and participatory planning. She is a lifelong New Yorker who has worked with community-based and nonprofit organizations dedicated to affordable housing, community-based planning, and racial and economic justice.