It was a tableau that would have seemed unthinkable a decade ago. Stumping on 125th Street on a recent Saturday, a dozen years after two failed bids to unseat Rep. Charlie Rangel of Harlem and ten after narrowly beating his chosen successor, there stood Rep. Adriano Espaillat, flanked by Black political leaders for a rally […]

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For an additional year, New Yorkers looking for a place to live can apply directly to vacated, affordable apartments — skipping the city’s lottery system, known as Housing Connect. Since May 2025, landlords and brokers have been able to publicly advertise empty affordable housing units — those that had been rented through the housing lottery […]

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Days after Mayor Eric Adams took office, his hand-picked correction commissioner ousted the official overseeing thousands of backlogged use-of-force investigations inside the city jail system — a move cheered by correction officer unions that long viewed her as overly aggressive. More than four years later, that same investigator, Sarena Townsend, is returning to the Department […]

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On a recent spring day, Prospect Lefferts Gardens shook with such force that some neighbors believed there was an earthquake, they said. The bricks of a co-op building in the Brooklyn neighborhood broke off and crashed into the courtyard, and new cracks wormed their way into some residents’ homes.  “It’s as if a train were […]

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The Buildings Department slapped new violations on the owners of the building where three tenants died in a fire last week after inspectors found padlocks on doors leading to rooms with fire escape exits, records show. Inspectors also alleged that a rear courtyard where the fire escape leads to was obstructed by debris, blocking access […]

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