Crime, taxes, inflation are too damn high! Why is the City cutting our services and charging us to welcome more migrants? Cops, businesses and people are leaving! $112 Billion city budget is unsustainable! Vote Republican or Conservative Novermber 7, 2023!
Carrying a child asking for “help”. He was given $20. When I saw him again in the same area 6 hours later, I decided to take the attached picture. Turning around, “you took a picture of me,” he said in Spanish, and proceeded to take a picture of me. Now I know who you are,…
Mayor Eric Adams got it all wrong! His 100,000 new unit proposal will require new rules, City Council approval, and years of planning and construction. Why not fix the 70,000 eviction case backlog, which would free up those units within months? If laws are changed to favor landlords removing bad tenants, more than 100,000 units…
When the job portal was up after Mayor-Elect Mamdani won in November, several friends applied. Not one got even a phone call acknowledging that their resume was reviewed. Three months later, The City wrote that only 31 people were hired out of 80,000 applicants.
A parent at South Richmond Hill’s PS161 said her child’s middle school is zoned on the other side of Van Wyck at Jamaica. It would be closer and safer if she could place her in Hawtree Creek at Rockaway Boulevard or Elizabeth Blackwell on 101 Avenue. Why is there no middle school in Richmond Hill?…
The unit is not rent stabilized nor controlled, yet she was able to stay rent free, and had her legal bills paid in full by Queens Legal Services. Judge stipulates that owner is required to pay $9,000 “relocation assistance” and that tenant could stay another 4 months rent-free. The evicted tenant lived nearby. Another story…
Executive Summary New York City is at a critical juncture. Affordability challenges, economic shifts, and concerns over quality of life, public services, and safety are affecting the city’s ability to attract and retain residents. Straight From New Yorkers 2025—the Citizens Budget Commission’s (CBC’s) updated NYC Resident Survey—provides a revealing portrait of how New Yorkers feel…
The State’s fiscal year begins April 1 and ends on March 31. However, the actual “budget cycle,” representing the time between early budget preparation and final disbursements, begins some nine months earlier (starting in July) and lasts approximately 27 months – until the expiration of the State Comptroller’s authority to honor vouchers against the previous…
“(F)or the city’s 400,000 public housing residents, whose code violation histories remain invisible.” Check out yours here.
When the gas piping was first redone on this stretch of Loubet Street in March 2023, a resident counted that its contractor(s) has dug and redug sections of the street at least 53 times counting the one pictured. Is there a reason? Residents demand answer for inconvenience and cost!
City Council overrode Mayor Eric Adams’ veto by 42-8 on July 13; first time since Mayor Bloomberg’s administration. The four bills are 878-A removing a 90-day wait period, 893-A soften eligibility criteria to a rent demand letter; 894-A lowered threshold from 200% federal poverty to 50% area mean income; and 229-A prohibits deducting a utility…
