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A NY Law Puts A Steep Price On ‘Serious’ Building Disrepair. These Tenants Are Fighting To Use It.

Brooklyn tenants are trying to dismantle barriers around a seldom-used 1960s-era law that can prohibit landlords from collecting rent when they fail to fix dangerous building conditions for months on…

Government In Depth Investigations

Inside the Fight to Stop Indian Point From Dumping Radioactive Water into the Hudson River

The deactivated nuclear power plant, now run by Holtec, wants to discharge 1 million gallons of radioactive waste into the river as early as August. The dumping will release …

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations NYCHA

NYCHA Plan to Put Units Under Private Management is More Than Halfway Done—But Skepticism Persists

More than 36,000 NYCHA apartments have either undergone conversion or are in the process of being converted to the RAD-PACT program, which officials say has helped drive billions in needed…

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations Land Use and Development

Hudson Yards Calls Itself a Model Neighborhood for Energy Efficiency. City Data Paints a Different Picture

Hudson Yards promised to be one of the most efficient sustainable neighborhoods in the U.S. But public energy consumption data tracked by the city shows many green-certified properties in the…

Economy Government Investigations Justice Transportation

Data Drop: NYPD Issued Majority of Street Vending Tickets in 2022

The NYPD and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) together doled out 5,197 tickets to vendors last year, with the police department issuing significantly more tickets, despite a…

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations Video

Buried Beneath: The Fight to Clean Up Toxic Brownfields in The Bronx

During the Fall 2022 semester, Lehman College journalism students conducted an investigation on the prevalence of toxic brownfield sites in The Bronx. Using public information, research into federal lobbying records…

Education Government In Depth Investigations

The Pandemic Robbed Thousands of NYC Children of Parents. Many Aren’t Getting the Help They Need.

Schools are uniquely positioned to identify and support grieving children, but families and school staff say the system isn’t equipped to serve them.

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations Justice

NYC’s Floundering ‘Right to Counsel’ Fails to Keep Pace With Eviction Cases

The city’s trailblazing program guaranteeing legal representation to the city’s poorest tenants facing eviction has been falling short since the state eviction moratorium was lifted last year; many still face…

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations Justice Transportation

Few Homeless New Yorkers Moving from Subways to Safe Havens, As Enforcement Continues

Adams’ early commitments to open new “low-barrier” shelters comes into sharper focus as he closes out his first year in office, with yet another plan to remove homeless New Yorkers…

Economy Government In Depth Investigations Transportation

City’s Street Vendors Saw Twice as Many Tickets This Year Compared to Pre-Pandemic, With NYPD Leading Enforcement

In 2019, when the police were the sole enforcer, the NYPD issued 1,812 tickets versus 2,499 in the first nine months of this year, with almost half (48.6 percent) doled…

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