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‘Unlivable conditions’: Washington Heights tenants demand justice against NYC’s ‘worst landlord’ over squalid state of apartments

Posted on August 5, 2024

Community members, NYCHA representatives and elected officials break ground on an improved green space project, including a dog park, at the Castle Hill Houses in Castle Hill on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024

Bronx Times

Castle Hill Houses breaks ground on new space featuring dog park and barbecue area

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Brooklyn Paper

Divisive development in historic Brooklyn neighborhood nears completion

Apartment buildings in NYC amid Section 8 housing voucher waitlist

Politics

200,000 NYC households added to Section 8 housing voucher waitlist via lottery

Posted on August 1, 2024

police with e bike

NYPD raid Randall’s Island migrant shelter, confiscate dozens of mopeds hours after triple shooting

Posted on July 29, 2024

NY: Tenants Demand Landlord Fix over 500 Violations

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn tenants demand action on hazardous housing violations, call for compensation

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Bronx Times

Park Reservoir co-op shareholders seek new board of directors

residential building in Harlem

Harlem

Up against the wall: Harlem tenants say endless construction has them feeling like they live in ‘jail cells’

Posted on July 26, 2024

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Brooklyn Paper

NBA vet Taj Gibson launches real estate firm to revitalize Brooklyn community

Health

Left to sweat: Why advocates say NYC isn’t doing enough to keep street homeless cool during summer heat waves

Posted on July 23, 2024

Manhattan developers and elected officials broke ground on The Lirio, a new affordable housing development, in Hell's Kitchen on July 17, 2024.

Hell’s Kitchen

Affordable housing groundbreaking in Hell’s Kitchen set to 112 new apartments to neighborhood

Posted on July 20, 2024

The Bankside Park, park of the 4.3-acre Bankside development, features a natural waterfront landscape. Photo Jakob Dahlin

Bronx Times

‘It’s been building for a while now’: The Bronx is in the midst of a residential renaissance

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Health

Measles outbreak at Brooklyn migrant shelter sickens two residents

Posted on July 13, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams rallying with officials in his administration, union members and advocates for the launch of the public review period for his 'City of Yes: Zoning for Housing Opportunity" plan in April 2024.

Politics

Adams’ ‘City of Yes’ plan to boost housing supply draws cheers and jeers at hours-long hearing

Posted on July 10, 2024

Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom.

Politics

NYC is seeing fewer migrants since Biden border crackdown, Adams admin official says

Posted on July 9, 2024

Bay Ridge condo owners

Brooklyn Paper

Immigrant families defrauded by Bay Ridge landlord find hope in new path to homeownership

West Village rowhouse and theater set for landmark status

This West Village theater with abolitionist history links moves steps closer to landmark status

Posted on June 19, 2024

Migrants outside Adams admin operated hotel

Politics

Adams admin seeks new vendors for migrant services contracts held by controversial DocGo

Posted on June 18, 2024

Tenants protest rent increase vote by Rent Guidelines Board

Politics

NYC rents going up again for stabilized apartments; what the Rent Guidelines Board vote means for 1.1 million tenants

Posted on June 17, 2024

former calhoun school, which is positioned to become a homeless shelter on the upper west side, in the daytime with cars parked in front

Upper West Side

Why Upper West Side residents say they were misled about upcoming homeless shelter

Posted on June 17, 2024

The nine members of the Rent Guidelines Board vote at Hunter College.

Politics

NYC panel could hike rents for stabilized tenants 6.5% in Monday vote

Posted on June 17, 2024

Midtown Manhattan

Hundreds of migrants protest in Times Square in protest of Biden’s border crackdown

Posted on June 7, 2024

Housing buildings in NYC

Politics

NYC Section 8 housing voucher waitlist reopens for first time in 15 years – but acceptance depends on a lottery

Posted on June 3, 2024

affordable housing in bed-stuy

Brooklyn Paper

Affordable housing lottery opens at new ‘design-forward’ Bed-Stuy building

Mayor Eric Adams joined a group of 40 mayors and county executives from across the country on Friday in penning a letter to President Biden asking for him to grant work permits to millions more migrants. Friday, May 24, 2024.

Politics

Adams joins group of 40 mayors, county executives in urging Biden to let more undocumented migrants work

Posted on May 24, 2024

Park Slope affordable housing rendering

Brooklyn Paper

Developers release renderings of new affordable housing development coming to Park Slope

Migrant sitting on grass near shelter in New York

Politics

From the border to the Big Apple: One migrant’s journey through hardship for asylum

Posted on May 21, 2024

brooklyn marine terminal

Brooklyn Paper

City takes ownership of Brooklyn Marine Terminal, planning modern mixed-use transformation

groundbreaking at marcus garvey apartments in brownsville

Brooklyn Paper

Developers break ground on 287 units of affordable and supportive housing at Marcus Garvey Apartments

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Bronx Times

Mott Haven tenants triumph over landlord, regain cooking gas after 16 months

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Bronx Times

Students in shelter-based culinary program serve Mothers’ Day luncheon for homeless moms

City Comptroller Brad Lander speaks about migrant shelter limit report

Politics

Report from Lander suggests NYC’s migrant shelter stay limit enforced in ‘haphazard’ fashion, ‘disregarded humanity’

Posted on May 9, 2024

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Rents increased the most around these NYC subway stops

Posted on May 8, 2024

people on stage at a a podium, Kirsten Gillibrand in the middle discussing housing bill

Politics

Affordable housing: Gillibrand touts Congressional bill to change NYC resident qualifications

Posted on May 6, 2024

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Bronx Times

‘A groundbreaking initiative’: City’s first pet-friendly homeless shelter opens in the Bronx

Rent Guidelines Board votes on preliminary rent-stabilized apartment increase

Politics

NYC rent-stabilized tenants in danger of yet another increase after Rent Guidelines Board vote

Posted on May 1, 2024

LIC Post

Queens Plaza set for transformation with over 1,400 new luxury units by 2026

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Bronx Times

Fulton Community Reentry Center opens at site of former prison in Claremont

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Brooklyn Paper

Luxury condo sales launch at One Domino Square on Williamsburg waterfront

fire truck in bath beach

Brooklyn Paper

‘Intense’ fire breaks out in Brooklyn apartment building

NYS Gov. Hochul at a desk with American flag behind her talking congestion pricing

Politics

Albany lawmakers pass state budget that extends mayoral control, enacts modified ‘Good Cause’ protections

Posted on April 21, 2024

A group of six tenants residing at 201 Pulaski Street claim Food First has failed to complete any significant repairs or construction on any of their homes

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn tenants sue to oust landlord over years of ‘neglect and mismanagement’

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Housing

Dantes Partners takes on renovations for three NYC buildings as a part of NYCHA PACT program

Posted on April 18, 2024

Bronx Times

Morrisania tenants sue landlords of South Bronx residence, citing several open violations

Governor Kathy Hochul speaks at press conference

Politics

‘A win’ is a win? Hochul defends ‘Good Cause’ protections in state budget amid tenant advocate criticism

Posted on April 17, 2024

More than a thousand migrants gathered outside City Hall on Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Politics

Migrants flood City Hall Park while City Council holds hearing on efforts to aid newcomers from Africa and Latin America

Posted on April 16, 2024

City Council announces strategy team to help migrants

Politics

City Council launches ‘strategy team’ to advance solutions to the migrant crisis

Posted on April 16, 2024

Unhappy campers: New York tenant and landlord groups bash reported housing deal in state budget

Posted on April 15, 2024

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Protesters voiced their concerns about the proposed Metropolitan Park development at Corona Plaza on Sunday afternoon. Photo: Ramy Mahmoud.

More than 100 protest against CAC’s unanimous vote in favor of Metropolitan Park

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City Council grant to fund free field trips to Brooklyn Children’s Museum for Title I schools

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ACT UP members join ‘Fairyland’ screening and Q&A