NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades. Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Some New Yorkers argue that scheduling local elections even-numbered years will distract from local stakes, subsuming them to the noise of the more prominent federal or statewide campaigns. But proponents of the move point to the huge gains in turnout.

Reps from NYC’s Health + Hospitals (the agency that owns the site of the proposed housing) have left today’s Council hearing on the plan — before any testimony or discussion has even begun

A modest housing proposal on the campus of a Bronx hospital set off a frenzy in the surrounding neighborhood That’s because 58 units would house people w serious medical problems (like stage 4 cancer) leaving Rikers Now it’s lost its more powerful backer, Mayor Adams gothamist.com/news/a-bronx...

The subway had its safest summer in 15 years, according to police data, a vastly different picture than the one painted by the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...

A bill proposed Monday night, just days before the end of the legislative session, would punch a very small hole in a landmark housing law passed earlier this year that appears to apply to one (1) proposed apartment building in the incoming Senate leader's district. calmatters.org/politics/202...

The city will reimburse some landlords up to $50,000 to repair and rent out “warehoused” apartments. Just one property owner applied, and didn't follow through: https://bit.ly/4gdbI68

NYC offered to reimburse landlords up to $25K if they restored an empty rent-stabilized apartment and leased it to a voucher-holder No one did it Now NYC’s housing agency is promising up to $50K to address the problem of warehousing Will anyone take them up on it? gothamist.com/news/nyc-wil...

New statement from Mayor Eric Adams following NYT reporting about a potential ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia in exchange for him dropping out of the mayoral race: “While I will always listen if called to serve our country, no formal offers have been made. I am still running for reelection”

CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

Nearly 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza, more than in any other conflict or any single place since CPJ (@pressfreedom) began keeping track in the '90s. Nearly all were Palestinians managing their own family struggles while bearing witness amid danger. @rudoren www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...

The Red Hook Pinball Museum, an unlikely and endearing addition to the neighborhood’s patchwork of niche passions and DIY institutions, is one of the only playable collections of electromechanical pinball machines in New York City: https://bit.ly/45zIzNx

“For a lot of renters, they don't have much in the way of personal savings and one missed paycheck, a layoff, an unexpected expense can be the precipitating factor for an eviction case.” gothamist.com/news/monthly... By @wnyc.org’s @davidfbrand.bsky.social #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

NEW INDICTMENTS with a HOUSING ANGLE: Per Manhattan DA: Ingrid Lewis-Martin pressured top NYC housing officials (including the deputy mayor) to speed up approvals and closings for 2 affordable housing projects In exchange, the developer agreed to remodel her home gothamist.com/news/mayor-a...

Friends, looks like @davidfbrand.bsky.social is starting to use Bsky regularly! Anyone in NYC who cares about housing will want to follow him. A friendly but important correction: "Evictions in NYC are at a 7-year high, surpassing even the last year before Covid [*BEGAN*]." The pandemic continues.

“It is worse for communities. It is worse for public health. It is worse for New York City writ large.” Evictions in NYC are at a 7-year high, surpassing even the last year before Covid For @wnyc.org @gothamist.com

Mayor Adams' former top adviser accused of 'wide-ranging' bribery schemes https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-adams-former-top-adviser-accused-of-wide-ranging-bribery-schemes

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a @thecity.nyc Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips “I can see how this looks strange,” the advisor’s attorney says www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Vacant apartment next door causing problems for you and other tenants? 🤷‍♂️ oh well gothamist.com/news/nyc-dra...

Roving bands of solar company reps are invading our neighborhoods, demanding we install solar panels before the tax breaks expire

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

The upcoming end of the federal Emergency Housing Voucher program puts about 10K low-income NY/NJ households at risk of losing aid In NYC, NYCHA will transfer 5,500 households to Section 8. Newark too, for its 98 But others, like NYC’s HPD, don’t have that option gothamist.com/news/nyc-to-...

NEW: Eric Adams’s free internet program for NYCHA is also linking public housing cameras directly to the NYPD’s surveillance hub — without telling residents.

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Regular NYC residents say their names are forged on ballot petitions. Others say they were tricked into signing. And then there are the dead people Why does that happen? And why is apparent fraud met with a shrug? w @brigidbergin.bsky.social + @claytonguse.bsky.social gothamist.com/news/fraudul...

The saga of the missing Atlantic Yards affordable housing continues After a developer blew past a legal deadline to complete 876 apts or face $1.75M in monthly fines, NY State waived the fines Now it’s indefinitely extending a deadline to transfer the site w/o penalty gothamist.com/news/yet-ano...

“We've watched so many other corporations and foundations and businesses just completely turn their back on the community and the city didn't do it” New York opens first-in-nation homeless shelter for transgender people @gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/new-yor...

I have felt the earthquake

💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣 Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent gothamist.com/news/forged-... Some 🔥🔥🔥🔥from @davidfbrand.bsky.social & @brigidbergin.bsky.social

NEW: Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate, a Gothamist investigation has found. gothamist.com/news/forged-...

“Mayor Eric Adams yielded to mounting political pressure and called on the federal government Wednesday to immediately inspect conditions inside the shadowy ICE lock up on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan” @gwynnefitz.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/23/2...

A plan to convert Queens’ long-abandoned Parkway Hospital into affordable housing is finally underway after 18 years But the effort to turn it into apartments for low-income seniors was nearly derailed in the home stretch when the Trump admin pulled a key loan gothamist.com/news/from-ab...

Video obtained by @gwynnefitz.bsky.social shows how about two dozen immigrant men are locked up, crammed together and sleeping on floors for days at a time inside a room with one functioning toilet at 26 Federal Plaza www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/v...

Looking into a basement apartment? NYC proposes new safety rules. https://gothamist.com/news/looking-into-a-basement-apartment-nyc-proposes-new-safety-rules

NEW: NYC's law eliminating most broker fees for tenants took effect a month ago today Opponents warned that the FARE Act would lead to big rent increases But a new report from StreetEasy finds that hasn't been the case so far For @gothamist.com and @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/nyc-end...

‘They’re killing us’: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions inside NYC holding site https://gothamist.com/news/theyre-killing-us-immigrants-complain-of-inhumane-conditions-inside-nyc-holding-site

NPR's producer in Gaza Anas Baba "has lost a third of his body weight during the war... reporting on the war and living through it, experiencing hunger and observing what it does to a person's body."

NYC’s 5 borough presidents could be the big winners of the November general election Voters could decide to give them some actual power on housing and land use decisions @gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/a-borou...

What a map! (Hanging on the wall at WNYC.)

NYC Rent Guidelines Board just voted to raise rents by • 3% on 1-year leases • 4.5% on 2-year leases The new increases for rent-stabilized apartments take effect on leases signed on or after Oct. 1

Always obsessed with how the family living in the Commandant's House in the Navy Yard can turn their whole district one color, this time just one of them voted for Brad Lander in the primary

Here are the vote patterns so far in the comptroller race (based on 94% reporting). cc @brigidbergin.bsky.social @davidfbrand.bsky.social

STORY: gothamist.com/news/elizabe... I asked Randy Mastro if the garden would have to pay back the rent it owes to HPD, but he said that detail wasn't included in this agreement. w/ @davidfbrand.bsky.social

So just to be clear: the official policy of the Adams Administration is that elite comfort is more important than homes for vulnerable elderly people. Going back on their own decade + commitment. And they announce that on the hottest day of the year, no less. Completely shameful.

@davidfbrand.bsky.social & @elkue.bsky.social have the story about today’s disgraceful capitulation by an administration that had championed “every neighborhood doing its share” for affordable housing. Now every neighborhood *except* SoHo/NoHo. No other exceptions? gothamist.com/news/elizabe...

NEW: Dep Mayor Randy Mastro says he killed the plan to build a senior affordable housing development on the city-owned “Elizabeth Street Garden” lot It’s serious whiplash: NYC had posted an eviction notice at the site and was moving ahead.. til Mastro came onboard gothamist.com/news/elizabe...

• YIMBYs win? • “Freeze the Rent”? • Abundance-pilled? Here’s how housing has shaped the race for NYC Mayor @wnyc.org and @gothamist.com gothamist.com/news/yimbys-...

New Emerson poll has Mamdani beating Cuomo emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-cit...