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Housing Code Violations in NYCHA Units Will Finally Be Made Public
The city agency that polices housing code violations has for years publicly posted inspection results for all privately-owned housing — but not inspection results in public housing apartments. That’s kept NYCHA tenants in the dark about sometimes dangerous living conditions and the Housing Authority’s failures to remedy them. That’s about to change. Under a settlement […]
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Trump’s Homeland Security Council Sets Its Sights on Zohran Mamdani
President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Advisory Council — a group that includes Rudy Giuliani, cop-turned-actor Bo Dietl and the founder of Bikers for Trump — held its first meeting on Wednesday to discuss the top threats facing the nation. The conversation quickly turned to New York City mayoral candidate Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani. After hearing Giuliani […]
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Elevated Lead Levels in Kids at NYCHA Childcare Centers Raise Alarms
Four children in three childcare centers in New York City Housing Authority complexes had elevated levels of lead in their blood in a three-month span between October 2024 and the beginning of January, according to a federal monitor’s latest report. That compares to only three such cases across all NYCHA childcare centers in all of […]
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Plan to Rezone Midtown South for Housing Nears Council Approval
At the corner of 30th Street and Broadway, just south of Herald Square, a beaten-up four-story building contains a jewelry store on the ground floor and a flexible workspace upstairs. But if a rezoning of the area is approved by the City Council later this summer, the site is likely to be turned into a […]
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City Council Primary Winners Emerge in Ranked Choice Tally
A week after Primary Day, the city Board of Elections has released the ranked-choice results of the City Council June election. Here are the highlights: In Lower Manhattan’s District 1, pro-development advocates failed to unseat incumbent Christopher Marte, who almost clinched his win in the first round of votes — on election night — with […]
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