Could Your Home Have Lead Paint? This Map Aims to Help NYC Tenants Gauge Risk
New York City buildings constructed before 1960 are presumed to contain lead paint. While only proper testing can confirm its presence, a new tool allows...
Council Speaker Seeks to ‘Elevate the Role of Community Planning’ in Land Use Decisions
“The Council’s land use process could benefit from more thorough strategies to meaningfully engage communities and secure better development outcomes for New Yorkers,” Speaker—and mayoral...
Tell Us: What Do You Want NYC’s Next Mayor to Do?
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Disabled Tenant in ‘Trapped’ in Fourth Floor Walk-Up Due to City Rent Freeze Transfer Policy: Lawsuit
In 2020, Enitte Cabrera, 59, enrolled in the city’s Disability Rent Increase Exemption program (DRIE), which freezes a participant’s rent and exempts them from future...
Federal agency flags safety shortcomings that ‘exposed’ workers to explosion at US Steel plant
By MARC LEVY HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal safety agency investigating an August blast at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh that left two...
US skater Maxim Naumov honors his late parents by completing an Olympic dream he shared with them
By DAVE SKRETTA MILAN (AP) — The last conversation that Maxim Naumov had with his parents was about following in their footsteps to the Olympics....