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Tenants Report Threats and Unsafe Conditions Next Door to a ‘Million Dollar Listing’

Celebrity real-estate broker Ryan Serhant is promoting two luxury towers that will rise on sites now occupied by garages on East 13th Street. Next door, in a property sold in…

Housing and Homelessness Investigations

What’s in a Name? Tenants Accuse Shamco of Illegal Rent Hikes

The Brooklyn property owner is alleged to be employing the tactics to gentrify its buildings.

Housing and Homelessness Investigations

Documents Reveal Woes at Pioneering Atlantic Yards Building

The first residential tower at the controversial Brooklyn development was supposed to pave the way for faster, cheaper housing construction using modular design. Internal state documents suggest the unique approach…

Education Investigations

Who Exactly is the New York City Parents Union?

The organization is involved in major lawsuits and lights up tabloid op-ed pages with criticisms of unions, elected officials, Chancellor Fariña and others. But their funding and membership are fuzzy.

Investigations

City Still Using Pesticides Despite 2005 Law Banning Them

A city law bans the use of pesticides linked to cancer, but exemptions and waivers mean thousands of pounds of such chemicals are still used. Assessing the health risks and…

Government Investigations

Fake Visits and Unnoticed Deaths at Agency Serving the Vulnerable

Burdened by a heavy caseload, lacking extensive training or helpful technology, workers at the city’s Adult Protective Services have at times faked mandated visits, failed to address conditions that led…

Housing and Homelessness Investigations NYCHA

Tenant Leaders Dispute Their Role in Shaping NYCHA Development Plans

NYCHA says an extensive visioning process among residents shaped a plan to build new housing developments in the Bronx and Brooklyn. But Tenant Association leaders feel their communities’ feelings weren’t…

Investigations

Was it Legal for a Cop to Shoot David Sweat as he Fled?

On a Sunday in June a state trooper shot an unarmed man as he ran away. Key detail: The man in question was a convicted murderer who’d escaped from prison.

Economy Investigations

Aging in New York: City Wrestles with Poverty Among Seniors

Amid the debates about how the minimum wage or better schools might reduce poverty are a million New Yorkers who are largely beyond the reach of those policies. And one…

Investigations

New York Confronts Polluted Past in its Waterways

Of all the challenges facing the city’s awe-inspiring water system, the most contentious might be playing out now at Flushing Bay, the Bronx River and other waterways, where a push…

Investigations

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