The Commission on Human Rights has enforced a law banning discrimination against Section 8 renters. New reporting indicates more of that enforcement is needed.
Ritchie Torres credits the mayor for taking unprecedented steps to shore up the fiscally challenged public housing authority. But he feels that NYCHA’s untapped political power must be harnessed to…
It’s been the city’s practice for two decades to sell property-tax debts to a private trust, generating revenue for the city and for investors—but, advocates say, hurting low-income homeowners.
City and state officials say they are doing all they can to preserve a critical affordable housing resource. Some tenants think more action is possible, like requiring coop boards to…
The de Blasio administration has shown openness to community land trusts but organizations, not the city, are taking the boldest steps toward trying what backers say offers the best chance…
We know this map is barely a start. If you know of a gallery, artists’ collective, performance group, music venue, theater, museum or dance space that we don’t, tell us…
Bushwick Open Studios put that neighborhood’s art scene on the map—but the event grew so popular some artists worried the art had become an afterthought. An inside look at how…
City Hall reporter Jeff Mays, investigative journalist Bob Hennelly and former City Comptroller John Liu size up the problems confronting the mayor and his message.
Thirty-one years ago today, demonstrators furious over generous subsidies to luxury developers descended on a gleaming poster-child for corporate welfare—the flagship property of the man now poised to be the…
