Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority leader John Flanagan (seen in 2015) might oversee some year-end dealmaking on 421-a and other issues.

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Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority leader John Flanagan (seen in 2015) might oversee some year-end dealmaking on 421-a and other issues.

Listen below as Gotham Gazette Editor Ben Max and I discuss the deal that’s brought labor, developers and the governor together around a plan to revamp the 421-a real-estate tax break — and the people who oppose it.

Plus, talk of the landlord crackdown, new money for public housing, smoking and the latest on proposed rezonings.

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