The mayor appoints a majority of members. The chair heads a mayoral agency. But the City Planning Commission is supposed to scrutinize each rezoning application on its own merit. …
The City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings passed all but one of the Stand for Tenant Safety bills and a variety of other bills to safeguard tenants.
De Blasio made his first City Council endorsement, Malliotakis faces no Republican challengers, and other news from the campaign trail and city politics.
