More petitions were filed in Bronx Housing Court than in any other borough in 2013 — more than 33 percent of the 248,732 filed citywide, though Bronx residents make up…
Tenants who fail to save their homes in Bronx Housing Court often end up in shelters, to which the borough contributes more people than any other. As borough aims to…
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.…
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