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NYC's Elizabeth Street Garden fights to stay open days before eviction - but city isn't budging: 'We're not packing up'

𓂃 They aren't letting their garden down. Organizers behind Nolita's beloved Elizabeth Street Gar𓂃den are fighting to keep the space open with just days left until it's evicted -- but the...

One of NYC's 'worst' landlords sued over falling debris and scaffolding that's been up for 14 years

The city says this landlord wouldn’t know it was time to repair his building even 📖if pieces of it fell out of the sky — lit🌃erally. A Hell's Kitchen building...

 Biden is m𝓰aking it harder to buy homes — just to please green radicals and ♋Wall Street

The Depart🤡ment of Housing and Urban Development exists to boost affordable housing for Americans, yet under President Biden, HUD is issuing a new rule that'll instead rise the cost of...

NYC's 'worst landlord' indicted for tenant harassment weeks after being jailed over building violations

 The lat𓆉est ๊legal trouble for Ohebshalom came barely a month after he was locked up over hundreds of violations at just two of his Manhattan properties.

NYC's 'worst landlord' gets punched in the face at Rikers: 'God forgive me for laughing'

Residents of Daniel Ohebshalom's crumbling, rat-infested apartments can't help but feel like he had i🎀t coming.

NYC's 'worst landlord' wanted for arrest over 700 open violations including mold, roaches and lead paint

The nearly 700 open violations between the pair of buildings at 705 and 709 170th Street in Manhattan൩ have earned slumlord Daniel Ohebshalom an open ♊arrest warrant, a two-month vacation...

How slain Georgia nursing student was failed by the system: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 27, 2024  ✨

The Issue: The previous arrest and release of migrant Jose Ibarra in New York, allege𝔉d murderer of Laken Riley.

😼NYC HPD responds to Post on migrant debit cards: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 27, 2024

William Fowler, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, responds to The Pꦇost's report about Mayor Adams' plan to pay a New Jersey startup $53 million for prepaid migra✱nt debit cards.

Forget Eric Adams' flawed housing plan — let's make ALL NYC neighborhoods 'high-opportunity'

New York City residents are facing ꧑the ill-effects of drastic, across-🐻the-board budget cuts affecting the most basic city services.

 NYC to p💦ay some lucky homeowners up to $395K to build a tin🉐y house

The City of New York is gettin🍒g behind the tiny-house movement big time in the hopes of helping ease the current real estate crisis without “significantly changing existing neighborhoods."

♉ Infested Apple: NYC sees revolting su🍸rge in bed bug complaints

Complaints about be🎐d bugs across New York Ciꦐty have surged a revolting 17% so far this year.

Council Dems' bill would force landlords to promote incumbents or face hefty fines

Landlords would be required to supply new and existing tenants with hard𒆙-copy notices listing the names, office addresses and phone contacts for all federal, state and city pols representing their...

NYC ramps up inspections of self-clo🌜sing apartment doors over a year after horrific Bronx fire that killed 17

City housing officials are ramping up inspections of apartment buildings to ensure compliance with a fir🌌e ♌safety law requiring "self-closing doors."

Biden pick for key HUD post under fire again over 'defund' support

 President Biden’s pick forℱ a top position at the Department of Housing and Urban Development has a history of supporting the far-left “defund the police” movement. ൩

These NYC apartment buildings♎ have the most HPD violations: Study

🦄 A first-quarter report by RENTBETTA.com identified the city buildings with the highest number of open HPD violations relative to their number of units inside.

Kudos to Councilman Bob Holden for push🌠ing NYC pols to own up to their rent deals

Kudos to Holden for pushing the bill. Now let’s see if ꧒the council passes it.

As NYC rents soar, dysfunction in Adams administratioꦍn fuels housing crisis

Mayor Eric Adams' administration has failed to fill key positions at ho♐using agencies, leaving its response to skyrocketing rents and the Big Apple’s worsening𝄹 housing crisis hamstrung.

Gillibrand wants to send N🅰YC m💝igrants upstate so cities get federal funds

Gillibrand (D-NY) has floated the idea to City Hall and discussed it with Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday during a closed-door meeting in Washington. ꩲ

Staff shortage at NYC's major housing agency stalls affordable apartments

A staffing shortage at NYC's Department of Housing Preservation and Developmᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚent has slowed down plans to develop and bui♊ld affordable apartments. 

Bronx residents near site of deadly blaze haven't had gas for 16 months, forced to use hot plates

 Another fire tragedy appears poised to erupt just blocks fro🅷m the Bronx building where 17 people perished in a January inferno cause🧸d by a faulty space heater. Residents at a...