Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
LISTEN: The Past, Present and Future of an Island of Exiles
We could create permanent affordable housing on Ward’s Island. There is a lot of unused space that’s occupied by an under-censused hospital. It is public land, so it would cost money to build but we wouldn’t have to buy the land. The housing could be affordable, and it could be mixed for formerly homeless people […]
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Two Legionnaires’ Cases Found at East Village Complex
City health officials are advising residents of an East Village apartment complex to take precautions after two residents contracted Legionnaires’ disease there within the last 11 months. The advisory went out Tuesday in a Zoom call arranged by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) in which the agency revealed that two tenants in […]
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Testing the Water: Meet the Team Who Checks NYC’s Beaches For Sewage
This story is part of Summer & THE CITY, our weekly newsletter made to help you enjoy — and survive — the hottest time in the five boroughs. Sign up here. Jessica Bonamusa’s mind is in the water, and where the gutter meets the shore. Bonamusa, a research scientist at New York City’s Department of […]
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Manhattan DA Probe Targets Inwood Fatal Fire Corporate Landlord
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has opened an investigation into whether the corporate landlord of an Inwood apartment building where multiple tenants died in a fatal May 4 fire is criminally liable for conditions that possibly played a role in the deadly conflagration, THE CITY has learned. Days before the fire, city housing inspectors had […]
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Council Speaker Tries New ‘Buffer Bill’ After Mamdani Rebuff
City Council Speaker Julie Menin is preparing to re-introduce a limited version of a controversial bill that would establish anti-protest “buffer zones” around schools, opting not to try an override of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s veto of an earlier bill. Menin’s new bill would direct the NYPD to plan protest buffer zones for public and private […]
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