The mayor’s non-endorsement, the Hillary headquarters, some 2016 handicapping and a couple beers were on the table in the latest episode of Straight Up!, the Brooklyn Independent Media reporters’ roundtable.
Forty-four Assemblymembers now support the bill to end exits from the rent-stabilization program—and recapture thousands of apartments that have already left.
Tenant organizers are putting the pressure on Democrats who have yet to back a bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal to repeal a mechanism blamed for stripping tens of thousands…
The mayor used Earth Day to articulate a breathtakingly ambitious synthesis of environmental advocacy, social justice and city planning. Tell us what you think!
But a second-generation Mitchell-Lama program would have to reconcile some problematic rhetoric around class and resolve some of the flaws that have stripped affordability from tens of thousands of units…
