The Bronx is the most affordable borough in the city, but its low-income families also have the hardest time affording the rents they’re charged—which are rising. Bronx Housing Court sees…
Reforms of housing court have done little to change the way business is done there: Via deals negotiated by landlord lawyers in the hallway with tenants who rarely get the…
Statistics point at two significant trends: A considerable fall in the number of people applying for parole and a stunning collapse in the rate of their getting it.
New York legislators are venturing into the delicate issue of connecting adopted children to the parents who gave them up—they’re considering whether to give all adopted children access to their…
Add another issue to the debate over renewing rent regulations: Current law allows landlords who’ve charged lower than legal rent to suddenly hike the monthly charge to the maximum level,…
The share of workers represented by unions fell slightly across the country in 2014 but remained steady in New York, which leads the nation in the percentage of employees claimed…
A board charged in 2013 with independent oversight of the city’s juvenile-justice detention system met but once before it was downgraded to an advisory board bound by a non-disclosure agreement.…
Councilman Jumaane Williams
Just last week, Mayor de Blasio said the city had in his first year of office financed 17,300 units of affordable housing toward his goal of preserving or…
A federally funded program in East New York will use extensive research to try to predict which domestic violence incidents augur a fatal end, and then employ coordinated efforts to…
Reports indicate the NYPD is under pressure to withdraw a 2007 report on radicalization. Defenders believe recent tragedies prove the report was prescient. But critics have long taken issue with…
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