New Yorkers with disabilities who live in Manhattan no longer have to travel as far as the South Shore of Staten Island for Access-A-Ride eligibility screenings. The MTA on Wednesday opened the first assessment center in the borough since January 2022, when a center on West 13th Street stopped performing evaluations for new and existing […]

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The City Council committees on aging, consumer and worker protection, and housing will hold a joint oversight hearing Nov. 19 on deed theft, and on two bills that aim to protect homeowners from predatory real estate speculation. The Council’s action was prompted by an investigative series from THE CITY that featured family members who found themselves dispossessed from their own homes after investors forced a sale. The investors had purchased shares of homes for pennies on the dollar from far-flung heirs who had inherited the property. One bill, introduced by Councilmember Crystal Hudson (D-Brooklyn), would require purchasers to disclose the market value of similar properties when making an offer. The other, introduced by Councilmember Kevin Riley (D-The Bronx), would require the city to provide asset protection counseling for homeowners and their heirs.

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In a move poised to alter the Garment District along with parts of Flatiron and Chelsea, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is targeting Midtown South as the first area where it’s flexing the city’s new powers to permit larger residential buildings than previously allowed. At a Zoom information session Wednesday night to review the city’s plan […]

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The ashes of deceased relatives, warm clothes in the dead of winter, personal documents and irreplaceable family photographs are just some of the items New Yorkers say were thrown away during homeless encampment sweeps that often take place with little or no warning, according to a new federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.  The city’s own internal […]

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At his weekly briefing with reporters Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams took digs at the media, his competitors for next year’s mayoral primary, and, not for the first time, City Comptroller Brad Lander. But with just one week to go before the presidential election, Adams declined to say anything negative about former President Donald Trump — […]

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