The state’s banking regulators want to widen the definition of “low-income,” but 83 New York-based organizations and public officials say the cost to poor neighborhoods is too high.
Landlords have been rejoicing over a new rent-deposit law that is about to go into effect, but the tenant antidote has been on the books for more than 30 years.
A judge gives gardeners and greens a victory by issuing a temporary stay against the city’s planned bulldozing of four Lower East Side community gardens.
