New York City’s new True Cost of Living report finds 78% of Hispanic residents and 62% of all New Yorkers are coming up short of covering basic expenses—a gap averaging $39,600 per family, and a sobering metric: $34 an hour just to keep the lights o…
After the Metropolitan Transportation Authority released its $1.5 billion Climate Resilience Roadmap—touting sturdier pumps and higher station entrances—Brooklyn promptly endured a rainstorm so fierce it flooded basements and upended Sheila Goodwin’s East Flatbush day care. As the city ponders updating ancient pipes and draining the bathtub streets, we wonder if resilience planning is all wet or just slightly ahead of the next deluge.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pitch to President Trump—both Queens natives—for resurrecting a $21 billion housing scheme atop the Sunnyside rail yard has left locals more bemused than bullish, especially since even Councilmember Julie Won’s imminent info session promises more questions than answers. The project, a perennial guest at New York’s planning parties, looks set to generate jobs, homes, and—most reliably—communal confusion.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “True Cost of Living” plan—unveiled April 6—assigns a hard number to the real price of scraping by in New York City, as opposed to rosier federal estimates. We welcome any effort to pin down economic reality, though measuring affordability in Manhattan might be the only contest where the numbers run faster than the subways.
After a lengthy bureaucratic shuffle, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has finally unveiled New York City’s inaugural racial equity plan—required by reforms voters backed in 2022—which pledges concrete action on pay gaps, data transparency, and staff training, even as the Trump administration pulls diversity initiatives in the other direction. If city agencies meet anywhere near their own targets, we might see less hand-wringing at next year’s press conference.
A Teamsters Local 804 report claims lax enforcement of parking violations has let Amazon’s last-mile vans treat New York’s bike lanes and hydrants as mere guidelines, with their 1,553 tracked trucks estimated to have clocked upwards of 90,000 violations since 2021. With city enforcers outnumbered and the tech giant brushing off blame, we wonder if “innovation” need always include a generous disregard for red lines.
A report by Advocates for Children of New York finds over 154,000 public school students in the city—more than one in seven—experienced homelessness last year, with nearly two-thirds of those in shelters chronically absent and just 27% passing state exams. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inbox now creaks with reminders that, in New York, school stability is fast becoming more aspiration than reality.
With New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani now tallying 100 days in office, his team is scrambling to forestall the foreclosure sale of 850 long-neglected, rent-regulated apartments in northern Manhattan—a fresh sequel to their earlier, thwarted bid to shield 5,000 such homes from the clutches of corporate landlords. City officials now float the idea of nonprofit buyers; all eyes wait to see who’ll blink first—banks or bureaucrats.
After an earlier eleventh-hour attempt to divert 5,000 rent-stabilized New York apartments fizzled, Mayor Zohran Mamdani now casts a wary eye on 850 more units in Northern Manhattan, whose latest owner, Emerald Equity Group, left behind over 2,300 housing code violations. The city hints at involving nonprofits; tenants, meanwhile, grow quite adept at navigating a permanent state of repair—or disrepair, as the case may be.
