New Law to Target Slumlords
Leave your thoughtsThe City Council unanimously passed a bill yesterday to force major slumlords to clear up their numerous housing violations or…
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Council Passes Bill Enabling City to Fix Worst Buildings
Leave your thoughtsThe City Council passed a bill yesterday giving the city broad new powers to go after landlords with histories of…
Inmigrantes Logran ley para Toda la Ciudad
Leave your thoughtsLa ley Safe Housing, que mejorará las condiciones de los edificios en peores condiciones de NYC, se consiguió con la…
Teens Arrested for Mourning Friend
Leave your thoughtsWhen a large group of Bushwick Community High School students met up to travel to their friends funeral in…
Small Incidents Are Creating a Big Problem With the N.Y.P.D.
Leave your thoughtsThese are small incidents, but they are accumulating by the tens of thousands, and someday New Yorkers are going to…
Arrested While Grieving
Leave your thoughtsNo one is paying much attention, but parts of New York City are like a police state for young men,…
Young People Arrested When They Gathered to Attend a Wake Ask for an Apology
Leave your thoughtsThe arrests of about 30 young people on the way to a friend’s wake on Monday have set off a…
Victory! Full Court Press Against Slumlords Promised
Leave your thoughtsThis bill is a full-out, governmental full-court press against slumlords in the city of New York," said Christine C. Quinn,…
Tables Turned on Bigot Landlord–Lesbian Couple Sues Landlord Who Tried to Run them Over for Being Gay
Leave your thoughtsA Bushwick landlord is being sued for subjecting his lesbian tenants to intense harassment, going so far as to try…
Protesters in Ring Around Stuy Town
Leave your thoughtsThousands of housing advocates, tenants on the brink of eviction and even homeless people rallied at Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town…