Facing a growing fiscal crisis and crumbling infrastructure, City Hall has called for building affordable housing—and, in some cases, market-rate apartments—on Housing Authority land as part of a broad strategy…
The panel that decides how much landlords can hike the rent on nearly a million stabilized apartments has four hearings coming up. But you don’t have to show up to…
Last year, more than 13,000 people were reported missing in New York City. While the majority of these missing people were found within the first few hours, others disappeared, leaving…
The Postal Service says two Queens neighborhoods and the borough of Staten Island rank among the top 80 cities when it comes to the number of letter carriers who’ve gotten…
A former HPD official referred to as “the Tall Guy” in court papers is due to be sentenced soon for his role in a major Bloomberg-era bribery scandal. With a…
The Housing Authority’s Tenant Associations are supposed to rally residents to fight for their interests. But while some leaders (like Jonathan Gardenhire, above, the vice president of Smith Houses’ TA)…
Everyone knows higher rents have forced many families out of their apartments in rapidly gentrifying Bushwick. But no one has bothered to count them or figure out where they went.
The mayor wants to end vacancy decontrol and vacancy bonuses and limit the rent hikes a landlord can impose when a major capital project or individual apartment improvement is completed.
