How to Find Housing With a Voucher in New York City
Nov 11, 2024 · Advocates, tenants and real estate agents alike describe the process of acquiring CityFHEPS as frustrating and demoralizing. “A lot of these clients when they first get the voucher, they are so excited,” said Phyllis Curry, a housing coordinator with the homelessness- and AIDS-prevention nonprofit Housing Works.
Your Trash Bin Questions, Answered: A Guide to NYC’s New …
Dec 4, 2024 · Our newsroom gets lots of questions from readers, about Mayor Eric Adams, congestion pricing, finding subsidized housing and more. But in recent months the most popular topic by far has been really trashy: New York City’s new programs for garbage containerization.
Who Will Challenge Eric Adams for Mayor in 2025?
Jun 24, 2024 · With Mayor Eric Adams facing federal charges and multiple top aides exiting City Hall, it’s no surprise that candidates — including fellow Democrats — are already raising their hands to try and make him a one-term mayor.. Adams has spoken out for months about a “coordinated effort” to kick him out of City Hall in 2025 — and there have been attempts for months by the city’s top ...
Suspension of Disbelief: Verrazzano Bridge Turns 60
Nov 21, 2024 · What once was the longest suspension bridge in the world has now spanned six decades of New York City history. Thursday marks 60 years since drivers first paid a 50-cent toll to drive over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the towering 13,200-foot link that connects Staten Island to Brooklyn.
From Buildings to Bins: Mayor Taps Oddo for Trash Commish
Dec 17, 2024 · As of last month, all residential properties with nine units or fewer are now mandated to set out their trash in containers 55 gallons or smaller. Larger buildings don’t have to use the bins because of a plan to eventually have built-in, on-street containers that will be first rolled out in the spring in parts of Manhattan.
Council Approves Adams’ ‘City of Yes’ Housing Agenda, With …
Dec 5, 2024 · The plan moved forward despite the opposition and a politically weakened mayor.Negotiations between the Council and the administration got down to the wire and resulted in a scaled-down plan.. As part of negotiations, the Council secured $5 billion — including $1 billion from Gov. Kathy Hochul — to invest in sewer and flood-prevention projects, as well as initiatives that include financing ...
Rikers Island Shutdown Plan Progresses With Construction Firms …
Nov 19, 2024 · In May 2023, Tutor Perini was also selected to build the estimated $2.9 billion jail in Brooklyn. Three years ago, City Hall initially tapped Gilbane Building Company and the Alberici Corporation to build the Manhattan location. But that proposed partnership fell apart last year over a dispute tied to insurance costs, according to multiple people familiar with those negotiations.
Why Insurance Rates for New York Property Owners Are Soaring
Oct 16, 2024 · Logan Browne thought he already experienced sticker shock from his Bushwick condo building’s insurance rate tripling last year. Then, this summer, the insurance company dropped the building, citing a “loss ratio” that Browne, the condo board president, said related to water damage claims in 2020 and 2023 after heavy rainfall flooded the basement.
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2 days ago · LISTEN: Adams is Sinking and Cuomo Is Looming. A new poll shows the former governor with 32% support among likely voters. It’s not just name recognition, though, or the mayor vying for a second term wouldn’t be at just 6%, tied with Socialist Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, and behind State Senator Jessica Ramos at 7%, Comptroller Brad Lander at 10% and former Comptroller Scott…
Mayor Adams Announces Budget Adds — and New Head of NYPD
Nov 20, 2024 · Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday unveiled a modified budget that includes funding for 1,600 new police officers and money for rental vouchers — and then introduced a new police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, in a surprise announcement.