How a small stretch of land on the Far West Side became an Opportunity Zone

It’s hard for “census tract 135” not to stand out on a map of Opportunity Zones in the five boroughs. While most of the New York City areas tapped for the federal tax program are clustered together in working-class neighborhoods, like the South Bronx, Jamaica and Brownsville, the roughly 16-block tract stands completely on its own on Manhattan’s Far West Side. Sources previously told The Real Deal that the U.S. Treasury Department had identified the […]

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