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NYC housing in Trump era

Politics

New York shelter and supportive housing provider sounds alarm over Trump’s proposed housing cuts

Posted on June 4, 2025

NYC Council Majority Leader Amanda Farias introduced a couple of furry friends to a young girl Friday at the unveiling of the new dog park at Castle Hills Houses.

Bronx Times

First NYCHA dog park in the city opens in the Bronx

Mayor Adams wearing sunglasses while speaking about housing investments

Mayor Adams touts millions for NYCHA, supportive housing, tenant safeguards in self-proclaimed ‘best budget ever’

Posted on April 28, 2025

Buwa Binitie

Housing

Buwa Binitie and Dantes Partners redefine affordable housing with luxury options in New York City

Posted on April 9, 2025

Queens Post

LaGuardia College welcomes new archives director, unveils NYCHA open space exhibit

brownsville NYCHA fire

Brooklyn Paper

Fire at NYCHA’s Brownsville Houses leaves 13 people injured

The Gowanus Neighborhood Construction Site

Housing

NYC’S HOUSING CRISIS: Breaking down what the city is doing, and not doing, to make housing affordable

Posted on February 26, 2025

Affordable housing in New York City

Politics

NYC’S HOUSING CRISIS: Why affordable housing really isn’t as ‘affordable’ as you think

Posted on February 25, 2025

Former City Comptroller Scott Stringer

2025 Mayor’s Race

FIRST ON amNY: Stringer releases plan to build 20,000 affordable homes in 5 years as he officially launches mayoral bid

Posted on January 16, 2025

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QNS

NYCHA eviction rates rise across NYC, but Queens bucks the trend

eviction

QNS

Evictions spike at NYCHA properties under private partnership program, Comptroller’s audit finds

Police at the scene of a shooting at a NYCHA complex in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn

Police investigating shooting that injured two at Brooklyn NYCHA complex

Posted on December 13, 2024

Mayoral candidates at Upper West Side forum talk rent freeze

Mayoral hopefuls entertain rent freeze in Upper West Side housing forum

Posted on December 10, 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

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

fire in crown heights

Brooklyn Paper

Three separate Brooklyn fires injure 12 residents over weekend, FDNY investigates

Hundreds of senior public housing residents are receiving free Ring video doorbells through a pilot program that Assembly Member Grace Lee and the Henry Street Settlement rolled out this week.

Lower East Side

Free Ring doorbells for Lower East Side seniors aim to help them feel safe at home

Posted on July 27, 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

ABM_Audubon Lobby

Housing

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

Posted on April 18, 2024

Police officers walk at scene of East Harlem homicide

East Harlem homicide: Young man, 19, dies hours after being shot at public housing complex

Posted on April 11, 2024

Scene of Brooklyn shooting

Brooklyn

Teen shot in face inside of Brooklyn NYCHA building: cops

Posted on March 24, 2024

Scene of Queens bar stabbing

Polo Grounds violence: Homeless men stabbed, resident shot dead in two separate incidents hours apart

Posted on March 4, 2024

Sign in front of the NYCHA Millbrook Houses in the South Bronx

Bronx Times

Residents go nearly five days without water at NYCHA Millbrook Houses in the Bronx

red hook houses

Brooklyn Paper

Red Hook Houses gets $1.3M FEMA grant for Sandy-related repairs

NYCHA fort tryon houses

70 NYCHA employees arrested in DOJ’s biggest bribery takedown

Posted on February 6, 2024

firefighters on scene of Gowanus Houses fire in Boerum Hill

Brooklyn Paper

Fatal Boerum Hill fire claims one life and leaves three others, including toddler, in critical condition

farragut houses

Brooklyn Paper

Victim of Farragut Houses stabbing sues NYCHA for negligence

Scene where man was shot dead in Bronx

Bronx

Cops seek perp who shot man near Bronx NYCHA development

Posted on January 14, 2024

Brooklyn police at scene where teenager was shot

Brooklyn

Death of Brooklyn teen shot at NYCHA complex may have been gang-related: NYPD

Posted on January 4, 2024

firefighters fight four-alarm fire in east new york

Brooklyn Paper

New Year’s Eve fire at East New York NYCHA complex leaves 80 displaced, 7 injured

Firefighters at scene of Brooklyn high-rise fire

Brooklyn

Baby rescued in Brooklyn high-rise fire; two people critically injured

Posted on December 31, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams announces that Nostrand Houses is the first NYCHA development to join the "Preservation Trust."

Politics

Nostrand Houses becomes first NYCHA campus to join ‘Preservation Trust’: Adams

Posted on December 15, 2023

An FDNY spokesperson told the Bronx Times that a lithium-ion battery was to blame.

Bronx Times

Soundview NYCHA fire caused by e-battery kills one, injures others: FDNY

scene of sumner houses murder

Brooklyn Paper

18-year-old arrested in connection to Sumner Houses murder: NYPD

The police are looking for three suspects, pictured, who allegedly attacked a 13-year-old girl in the Bronx Monday

Bronx

Bronx slashing: Three suspects sought for bloody attack on girl near NYCHA complex

Posted on October 5, 2023

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Chelsea

Chelsea pol releases job bank to connect public housing residents with local jobs

Posted on September 20, 2023

Police crime scene tape.

Brooklyn

Teenager shot in leg in front of Williamsburg NYCHA Complex: NYPD

Posted on August 31, 2023

Brooklyn firefighters

Brooklyn

Three children in Brooklyn NYCHA complex critically injured in apartment fire

Posted on August 20, 2023

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Harlem community group introduces neighborhood kids to pickleball craze at Central Park’s Wollman Rink Courts

Posted on August 18, 2023

Mayor Adams Addressing

Opinion

Op-Ed | Affordable homes for New Yorkers

Posted on August 15, 2023

Police at the crime scene where a 25-year-old man was gunned down in Ocean Hill early Tuesday morning

Brooklyn

Man gunned down outside Brooklyn NYCHA complex early Tuesday, Suspect on the loose: NYPD

Posted on August 1, 2023

Police crime scene tape.

East Harlem man charged with murder for fatal stabbing of his sister: NYPD

Posted on July 20, 2023

Elliott-Chelsea Houses, a NYCHA complex

Housing

Activists raise concerns over NYCHA plan to demolish Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses, fear tenant displacement

Posted on July 13, 2023

NYCHA public housing

Politics

NYCHA says it needs $78 billion to address outstanding repair needs

Posted on July 12, 2023

News

Man shot in the leg inside lobby of Brooklyn housing development: NYPD

Posted on July 11, 2023

Jamie Rubin

Business

New leaders at NYCHA: Mayor Adams taps Jamie Rubin as chair, Lisa Bova-Hiatt as CEO of embattled authority

Posted on July 6, 2023

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Bronx Times

Squatting couple indicted after children found locked in a room, eating a mattress in Mitchel Houses

Lower Manhattan

Pols announce federal funding for e-bike charging stations outside NYCHA buildings

Posted on June 25, 2023

More from around NYC

shooting

Bronx shooting leaves man critical after bullet passes from neck to head: sources

con edison

With heat and storms ahead, Con Edison urges Queens residents to conserve energy

she-wolf-bakery-brooklyn-navy-yard

Baking with purpose: She Wolf Bakery finds new home at Brooklyn Navy Yard

Outside of The Monster in Greenwich Village.

Man allegedly brandishes knife, defaces Pride sign in Greenwich Village: NYPD