Both inside and outside the Rent Guidelines Board’s public hearing Thursday, tenants and landlords shouted, booed, and jeered at each other in almost equal measure over future rents for regulated…
Inspections by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development are one of the only tools NYCHA tenants have for securing overdue repairs. But tenants and legal advocates say scheduling…
A post-pandemic boom in e-commerce correlated with statewide health inequities that are hitting low-income communities the hardest, the report found. “The reason why a lot of these warehouses are placed…
The Mamdani administration claimed a partial victory when it got the new owner of 5,000 rent stabilized units to promise repairs and to clear housing code violations. It looks like…
Advocates and a Brooklyn City Council member are asking the city to create a set of guidelines for how schools should respond to the presence of ICE agents nearby, and…
The city planned to let the Mainchance drop-in center’s contract expire. But a judge wants to take a closer look, citing the high need for homeless services during a housing…
The city’s “AC for All” initiative, launched in 2017, aimed to bring air conditioning to every public school classroom. But the policy doesn’t require the city to verify whether the…
“Engagement is probably not what it could have been,” said Pedro Suarez, executive director of the Third Avenue BID in the South Bronx. “I do think that [small businesses] are…
Participants must prove they work a certain number of hours, volunteer or take part in trainings each month to keep their food stamps. “It’s just totally unnecessary, and that’s why…
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