Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to replace the head of New York City’s independent racial equity watchdog has been delayed until at least next summer after City Council members pushed back against removing its current chair. Mamdani confirmed Wednesday that Linda…
Oct 27, 2026 at 10:03 AM EDT Defying Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to make New York housing more affordable, rents continued climbing across the city this summer. Median asking prices reached their highest level since Realtor.com started tracking data in 2019 between July…
October 25, 2026 10:20 PM / Staff Report New York is accepting applications for $225 million in grants to build drinking-water, sewer and stormwater infrastructure needed for housing development, including $50 million reserved for rural municipalities. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the Clean Water for Housing program,…
More than 100 current and former home care workers chanting “No more 24” picketed outside the New York State Department of Labor in Brooklyn, saying that compensating them for only 11 hours while requiring they be present 24 hours violates state law. Many of…
Chinatown residents filed suit to try to stop the city from building a new “megajail” in their neighborhood — arguing that subjecting them to nearly round-the-clock construction noises for the next six years was “inhumane and cruel.” Construction has been ongoing…
The City Council on Thursday resurrected a controversial housing bill vetoed by former Mayor Eric Adams, approving a dramatically scaled-back measure that would give nonprofits first crack at buying certain apartment buildings. The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, or COPA,…
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