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Losing Money Every Month: Growing Finance Crisis Threatens Affordable Housing
BronxProGroup manages 93 subsidized apartment buildings containing more than 3,300 affordable apartments, mostly in The Bronx. One in three units are in buildings where this year expenses are greater than the rents collected. And one in five are in buildings in such poor financial shape that the owners will have to resort to renegotiate their […]
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Eric Adams Aide Sentenced in Campaign Fundraising Scheme — With the Mayor’s Absence Noted
Most of the seats in the ornate wood-paneled courtroom of Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho Tuesday were filled with supporters of Mohamed Bahi, the former aide to Mayor Eric Adams who was about to be sentenced for arranging illegal straw donations for the mayor’s election campaigns. Missing from the scene was Eric Adams, the man […]
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Comptroller Brad Lander Seeks Federal Trial for Protest Outside ICE Holding Area
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is seeking a federal trial for a charge he was hit with during an act of civil disobedience against immigration agents inside 26 Federal Plaza in September — rejecting an offer to drop the case. Lander was arrested with 10 state lawmakers on Sept. 18 by Department of Homeland Security […]
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City Pays $4M to Rikers Detainee After His Five Rape Claims Were Ignored
Terrence told jail officials again and again that he’d been raped — five times, he said, over the course of multiple stints in city custody. He filed reports, flagged officers and in two instances, pointed to video that seemed to back him up, including one in which a fellow male detainee is seen leaving the […]
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Adams Boosts Budget, Leaving a $4.7 Billion Hole for Mamdani
Mayor Eric Adams may be on a visit to Israel, but Monday he left Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani a headache. He increased the budget for city government spending in the current fiscal year by about $2 billion to $118 billion, bequeathing a projected $4.7 billion deficit to be closed before the 2027 budget is adopted next […]
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