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The New York City Housing Authority has mistakenly cut off federal rent subsidies for hundreds of public housing tenants at privately run buildings, triggering hundreds of eviction notices and frightening residents who insist they’ve paid their rent on time without fail. The erroneous cutoffs occurred at multiple NYCHA developments run by private firms the housing […]

It’s been a huge week for the new mayor, who saw the political capital he wagered on this year’s elections pay off big-time and who fulfilled a key campaign promise with the city’s first-ever two-year freeze on two-year rent-stabilized leases.  But a sudden City Council push to hold up the budget due Tuesday if City

It happens all the time: a New Yorker who relies on federal benefits to feed their family swipes their Electronic Benefits Transfer card at the grocery store, only to find that their money for the month has disappeared. In a deep look at the problem, we discovered: New York’s outdated EBT cards are especially vulnerable

Antoine Galloway still remembers the moment he was surrounded by seven corrections officers upset over a sexual assault grievance he’d filed against a guard at Clinton Correctional Facility in February 2016.  First came a punch to the face.  The Harlem native then felt large fists hitting his body, steel-toed boots kicking his legs, and a

In a raucous auditorium flooded with bright red “Freeze the Rent!” posters and tenants chanting, the Rent Guidelines Board approved a signature campaign promise of Mayor Zohran Mamdani: 0% rent increases on one- and two-year rent-stabilized leases. The 7-1 vote on Thursday night was met with deafening cheering as the mayor’s six appointees to the

The New York Knicks weren’t the only people who won big when the team defeated the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The week they clinched their first championship in 53 years, sports betting companies lost more than $48 million — the first time the house lost since data has been

Negotiations on the final city budget will go through the weekend as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council are at an impasse over funding for a housing voucher program. “Right now we are stuck on FHEPS, so that is where we are,” Council Speaker Julie Menin told reporters Friday at City Hall, after rallying

As the U.S. Supreme Court ruling came down ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants Thursday morning, Doudgy Charmant was painting a mural honoring Haitian heritage at the corner of Newkirk and Nostrand avenues in Flatbush, Brooklyn.  The 27-year-old told The City Reporter he had immigrated to the United States as a child

Popsicles, paletas and now rents: all frozen. The Rent Guidelines Board on Thursday approved 0% rent increases for about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, delivering on one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s signature campaign promises. The vote took place in front of rows of tenants and advocates chanting in four different languages at the auditorium at El

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