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NYC building owned by worst landlord

Housing

NYC’s ‘worst landlord’ sought for arrest over dangerous conditions in Washington Heights buildings

Posted on March 11, 2024

Staten Island resident holds up sign at protest over migrant shelter

Politics

‘Bring back our seniors’: Staten Islanders angry over migrant shelter where residents displaced, safety issues remain

Posted on March 9, 2024

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Brooklyn Paper

‘A big relief’ for Kent Avenue tenants after DEC stops construction on Brownfield site

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Politics

This Queens lawmaker’s bill aims to force city to battle some landlords on tenants’ behalf

Posted on March 7, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams speaks at roundtable

Politics

Migrant crisis | Adams rebukes feds’ reported claim his admin hasn’t ‘stepped up to plate’ in collecting aid

Posted on March 5, 2024

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Bronx Times

Legal Aid, tenants sue Bronx landlord with almost 500 health and safety violations

SNAP benefits paying for groceries

Politics

‘SNAP’-ping to it: NYC finally resolves public benefits backlog six months after court order

Posted on March 4, 2024

Formerly homeless man advocates in East Village over shelter conditions

How a homeless man in East Village is raising awareness of shelter conditions: ‘It’s no condition for nobody’

Posted on March 3, 2024

Midtown cop assault

Midtown Manhattan

Midtown cop assault: Charges dropped against Jhoan Boada, identified as wrong man in outrageous attack

Posted on March 2, 2024

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Bronx Times

City officials clear out makeshift migrant shelter housed in vacant Bronx storefront

Manhattan serial stabber Trevon Murphy appears for sentencing

Courts

Sentencing delayed for serial stabber in Manhattan who admitted to attacking homeless men as they slept in public

Posted on February 28, 2024

mayor of NYC, who has initiatives to help reduce Black unemployment, wearing a suit at a podium

Politics

Mayor denies connection between migrant discovery in Queens storefront and shelter limits

Posted on February 27, 2024

Residents of 63 Tiffany Place rally for legislature that would prevent landlords from pushing out longterm tenants.

Brooklyn Paper

‘This is about basic rights’: Tiffany Place tenants push for Good Cause to protect them from unfair rent hikes and unjust evictions

Guinea migrants in Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan

Guinea migrants in Manhattan raise awareness of plight seeking asylum: ‘We were persecuted in our country’

Posted on February 23, 2024

midtown housing lottery

Housing

Affordable housing lottery opens in Midtown with one-bedrooms starting at $1,001 a month

Posted on February 21, 2024

Suspect in Midtown cop attack at bail hearing

Midtown Manhattan

Midtown cop attack: No bail for latest teen arrested for heinous assault that outraged city

Posted on February 14, 2024

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Politics

Legal Aid sues to force Adams admin to enact housing voucher expansion laws

Posted on February 14, 2024

Suspects in Midtown cop assault

Midtown cop assault: Another teen arrested in infamous attack as released suspect gets booked for Queens shoplifting

Posted on February 14, 2024

Sign in front of the NYCHA Millbrook Houses in the South Bronx

Bronx Times

Residents go nearly five days without water at NYCHA Millbrook Houses in the Bronx

Migrants leave NYC shelter

Politics

Migrant crisis | Two state pols introduce bill to block ‘arbitrary’ NYC shelter stay limits

Posted on February 12, 2024

red hook houses

Brooklyn Paper

Red Hook Houses gets $1.3M FEMA grant for Sandy-related repairs

NY: Gov. Hochul attends groundbreaking in Gowanus

Brooklyn Paper

Governor announces 18 Gowanus housing developments with 5,300 units at Nevins Street groundbreaking

Politics

City announces plan to create 1,500 permanent affordable homes for those in shelter system

Posted on February 8, 2024

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Curtis Sliwa, Guardian Angels condemned after member roughs up man on live TV, mistaking him for ‘migrant’

Posted on February 8, 2024

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‘A moving crisis’: Mayor Adams again appeals in Albany for state to pick up half of migrant care costs

Posted on February 6, 2024

Migrant crime ring member arrested and escorted into NYPD vehicle

Migrant crime ring members hit with more than 40 charges for drive-by thefts: NYPD

Posted on February 6, 2024

Migrants in New York

Politics

Mayor Adams defends pilot to fund migrant meals with prepaid debit cards after uproar from 50 Cent

Posted on February 5, 2024

NYC clergy leaders call for deportation of violent migrants

NYC clergy leaders demand deportation of violent migrants at City Hall rally

Posted on February 5, 2024

Midtown police officers violently beaten by migrants

Midtown Manhattan

Two additional suspects booked in brutal Midtown cop attack

Posted on February 1, 2024

Midtown police officers violently beaten by migrants

‘They should be sitting in Rikers right now,’ police brass lament release of migrants who attacked cops in Midtown over the weekend

Posted on January 31, 2024

Midtown police officers violently beaten by migrants

Midtown Manhattan

Five migrants charged in violent Midtown beating of police officers; three suspects still wanted, cops say

Posted on January 31, 2024

farragut houses

Brooklyn Paper

Victim of Farragut Houses stabbing sues NYCHA for negligence

The building where a proposed homeless shelter could come to Lower Manhattan.

Lower Manhattan

Community Board 1 demands hearing over proposed Lower Manhattan homeless shelter

Posted on January 25, 2024

a candy stand set up by an immigrant worker at Jay Street

Brooklyn Paper

Immigrants turn to selling snacks at Jay Street subway station while waiting on backlogged work permits

Migrants on line at East Village school

Residents decry ‘humanitarian crisis’ at East Village migrant shelter re-ticketing center

Posted on January 24, 2024

"No justice, no peace": Crown Heights tenants are fighting to take control of their building after years of no repairs by slumlord and city agencies.

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn tenants rally for control of their building after years of no repairs

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Politics

Speaker Adams slams mayor’s 60-day shelter limit for migrant families as ‘cruel’ and ‘counterproductive’

Posted on January 22, 2024

Fordham apartments

Bronx Times

The Bronx is ‘valuable’ when it comes to housing affordability in NYC: report

Mayor Eric Adams

Mayor Adams’ $109B preliminary budget restores funding to some agencies, but still contains broad cuts

Posted on January 16, 2024

Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed spending $2.4 billion on migrants.

Politics

Hochul proposes $2.4 billion to deal with migrant crisis in new budget vision

Posted on January 16, 2024

Ritchie Torres

Bronx Times

Bronx Rep. Torres touts affordable housing dub in now-failed Signature Bank loan sale

Migrants at respite center in Manhattan

Politics

Curfew to be imposed at four NYC migrant ‘respite centers,’ City Hall confirms

Posted on January 15, 2024

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Politics

Mayor partially restores police and fire budget cuts, brings migrant cost estimate down

Posted on January 10, 2024

Protesters rally against the mayor's plan to evict migrants from shelters after 60 days.

Politics

Migrant crisis: 70% of New Yorkers support ‘right-to-shelter’ mandate, poll finds

Posted on January 10, 2024

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Adams appears confident he’ll get more migrant help from Albany, even as Hochul barely mentions influx in annual speech

Posted on January 10, 2024

Migrant shelter on Randall's Island

Migrant murdered on Randall’s Island victim of group attack stemming from dispute over girlfriend: NYPD

Posted on January 10, 2024

James Madison HS

Brooklyn Paper

Parents, pols to rally outside James Madison High School after Floyd Bennett Field migrant relocation forces students online

Migrant families evicted from Manhattan hotel

Midtown Manhattan

Migrant evictions begin with pregnant women, children forced out of hotel as Lander announces investigation into 60-day shelter cap

Posted on January 9, 2024

More from around NYC

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Op-ed: Supporting local businesses is key to strengthening the Bronx

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Wells Fargo opens first Queens branch in Little Neck

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Serving up hope: Local leaders and orgs give back with turkey giveaways ahead of Thanksgiving

Advocates carry the banner at the 32nd Out of the Darkness World AIDS Day candlelight vigil in 2023.

World AIDS Day events planned in New York City