Nearly a decade ago, hundreds of NYCHA’s boilers were completely out of compliance with the city’s anti-pollution rules. Only a small percentage had received the required inspection by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Some 70% were running without mandated certificates of operation. So NYCHA and DEP signed off on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) […]

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The tallies are in from the nine-day early voting period that ended Sunday afternoon: More than 732,000 New Yorkers have already turned out to cast their ballots, accounting for nearly 14% of the more than 5.3 million registered voters in the city, according to THE CITY’s analysis of the latest city Board of Elections data.  […]

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More than 100,000 voters turned out to the polls Saturday, the highest number of early voters in a single day so far, as New York City’s mayoral candidates hustled across the city to win over new voters with just 72 hours before Election Day. Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens), the Democratic nominee and frontrunner, spent the […]

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Alex Brook Lynn, FAQ NYC’s original executive producer, rejoins the podcast to talk with Harry Siegel about New York City’s election, and how and why Paris — which has all the same big urban issues — has taken a different approach to providing things like affordable housing for working class people, childcare, and more.

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