NEW: @aarmlovi.bsky.social resigned from the Rent Guidelines Board today. This gives @mayor.nyc.gov a total of six seats to play with on the nine-member board. His appointments could deliver his promise of a rent freeze for a million rent-stabilized apartments. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/17/r...

If Gov. Kathy Hochul doesn't increase taxes on the rich, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is threatening property tax hikes in NYC to close a $5.5B budget gap. More soon as the mayor unveils details of his budget proposal. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/17/m...

Whether developers can move on building out Hudson Yards is tied to $2 billion in tentative public subsidies that still need approval from Mayor Zohran Mamdani. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

New York State was supposed to pick its next offshore wind project today through a competitive process, but ended up not making any awards. Why? @nyserda.bsky.social cited the "federal actions disrupting the offshore wind market," which make developing new projects uncertain.

NYCHA has no concrete plan to replace rental assistance for the thousands of people set to lose it. gothamist.com/news/nyc-sti...

BREAKING: The EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public health, removing a key basis for the climate change fight.

NYC's new affordable housing is increasingly found in mixed-income bldgs But affordable hsg tenants tell me @citylimitsnews.bsky.social they can't use all of their buildings b/c of exorbitant amenity fees "My first thought was that it was making a two-tiered system" citylimits.org/the-new-poor...

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

the new NYC housing commissioner is the first such leader in a decade to be a renter. and she had to move from Jersey City for the job. @smaldo.bsky.social talked with her about the hunt:

NYC @mayor.nyc.gov released a schedule for Rental Ripoff hearings. Testimonies shared "will directly inform policy changes to strengthen city policies to protect tenants." www.nyc.gov/main/rental-...

A collection of letters from children kept in ICE detention, some for months www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

The Mamdani admin made 31 hires out of 80K applications submitted... but still no answers on who controls the portal now or whether its applicants are being shared with city departments. by @katiehonan.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/06/m...

OK, procrastinators, you have two days to get through Becky’s six-week Bad Bunny 101!! Still worth it

Companies that work with ICE are collecting at least $260.4 million from New York City taxpayers, an analysis found documentedny.com/2026/02/05/n...

A new report shows NYC has about 3,200 supportive housing units sitting empty, despite record-high homelessness @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells me filling them is a priority: “That will be a focus for us… as it's a long-standing city issue that needs to be resolved” gothamist.com/news/thousan...

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

NYC @mayor.nyc.gov and officials announce expansion of electric heat pump program at NYCHA development in Far Rockaway. The pilot program started at NYCHA’s Woodside Houses with promising results, as we reported. www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/27/n...

The story we’ve been waiting for— How Heated Rivalry is taking over New York, by @rachelholliday.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/04/h...

“New York is creating a team of legal observers that will don purple vests to monitor and record the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement officers as they seek to detain and deport migrants, the state’s attorney general said on Tuesday.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#NEW: A federal judge rules that another offshore wind project, Sunrise Wind near New York, can resume construction. This now means that all five wind farms paused by the Trump administration on Dec 22 have received preliminary injunctions.

Hochul, speaking to @danclarkreports.bsky.social just now, makes clear that she wants to change NY’s emissions accounting standards and maybe revisit other CLCPA deadlines. “We’re held to a very different standard… we’re always gonna look like we’re coming up short despite our best efforts”

Incredible photos on a fascinating, freezing journey through Newtown Creek www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/n...

Read @haidee.bsky.social's sensitive, nuanced reporting on how New Yorkers without homes have been getting through this cold, and why they're largely staying outside. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/30/c...

Last night in Brooklyn: A man claiming to be an FBI agent tried to free Luigi Mangione from jail, with a barbecue fork and pizza cutter gothamist.com/news/man-pos...

Gov. Hochul in talks to change the state’s sweeping climate law as part of budget negotiations. And state utility regulators may possibly roll back the law’s goals of 70% renewable electricity by 2030 + zero emissions electricity by 2040. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

A mother and her 2 young kids, including her US citizen 4-year-old daughter, were trapped in a hotel room for weeks without contact from the outside world as the Trump administration sought to deport them. "We were experiencing a nightmare," she told @thecity.nyc. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/28/i...

Asked about CHEPS costs, Mamdani says they asked for more time to work on a settlement in the CityFHEPS expansion case (which he previously said he'd drop). "We are looking to be honest and direct w/ Nyers" On if they'll expand eligibility for the program: "Those conversations are ongoing"

Seen from the office: The city dumps snow into massive “hot tubs” that can melt 240,000 pounds of snow each hour, according to nycsanitation.bsky.social.

Brooklyn Brooklyn President Antonio Reynoso shares the rubric he’ll use when he considers whether to overturn the City Council’s housing and land use decisions Reynoso and the 4 other BPs have new power to appear on a housing “appeals board” @gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/nycs-bo...

"Once in the old neighborhood, when he was seven or eight, he’d fallen off his bike, his helmet splitting cleanly in half like a cantaloupe. He showed the halves to all the neighbor kids as a way to warn them to never ride without one." - @kristenradtke.bsky.social www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

President Trump needs to know: Just because it's cold where he is doesn't mean it's cold everywhere. climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-we...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday will announce Lisa Garcia as the new commissioner of the city Department of Environmental Protection, according to multiple people with knowledge of the appointment. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/27/m...

NYC now has a law that gives renters a right to AC, but critics say it doesn’t do enough to address the cost concerns that prevent people from cooling their homes in the first place. www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/...

In its freshly released “People’s Budget” framework for 2026, the NYS Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus once again comes out in “strong support” of moving ahead with the state’s cap and invest program, which remains on ice as Hochul continues to fight it in court.

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

NEW: NYC's Environmental Protection Commissioner to step down. Rohit Aggarwala's departure is the latest in a string of resignations from top agency officials under @mayor.nyc.gov Zohran Mamdani. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/21/e...

The @hudsonriverpark.bsky.social Trust is ending contract with ICE to stash vehicles at Pier 40 parking lot. The 150K a year contract ends in June, but @bradhoylmansigal.bsky.social whose district oversees the park, is calling for the trust to cut out early. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/21/i...

"You can ask axolotl questions about how our infatuation came about, but you can’t deny that this beguiling salamander has captured human hearts." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Proud to have won a prize for my work at @thecity.nyc — long live local news! shorensteincenter.org/article/judd...

Achieving Mamdani’s goal to build 200k affordable apartments with union labor “will be extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible.” A great look at the math and trade-offs of housing production in NYC: www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

NEW: Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next,' according to a senior White House official. more from me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/califo...

UPDATE: A federal judge lifted the stop-work order -- a win for offshore wind as Trump attacks it. Empire Wind's construction can now resume, and workers will soon head out to sea.

Washington Post reporter wrote this just weeks before the FBI raided her home and seized her devices www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A Trump stop-work order may kill one of NY's key offshore wind projects if construction can't resume by Friday. Workers are in limbo, like Brooklynite electrician Sally McKleinfeld: "I’m willing to walk away from my kids, go on a boat and make the future happen.” www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/14/w...

NEW: Yet another top aide to former Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on corruption charges, this one accused by federal prosecutors of demanding kickbacks from vendors for his promises to arrange lucrative municipal contracts. buff.ly/novekql

"The gatekeeping didn’t dismantle hierarchy; it just shifted who sits at the top. In the new order, as in the old order, community outlets embedded in the neighborhoods Mamdani campaigned to serve were left out in the cold." epicenter-nyc.com/im-a-communi...

Starting this fall, 2,000 NYC 2-year-olds will get free child care. The program is supposed to expand to all in four years, but funding after the second year is unclear. Still, one mom told me, “I owe my second kid to de Blasio. I might owe my third to Mamdani.” www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/08/f...

NEW: Members of the City Council on Wednesday unanimously voted for Julie Menin, who represents Manhattan’s Upper East Side, as their next speaker. buff.ly/2pgnNGg