The City Council held an emergency hearing on the NYPD’s use of a free internet program to gain real-time access to public housing cameras, in response to New York Focus’s reporting.
“New Yorkers did not agree to trade their right to privacy for the promise of free internet,” key committee chairs wrote to city officials.
The New York City mayor made the claim during a press conference in late July.
The Adams administration is using its flagship broadband program to give police real-time access to NYCHA camera feeds — without telling anyone.
Andrew Cuomo won 11 out of 13 majority-homeowner districts — but Mamdani swept the floor in renter-heavy areas, where turnout surged.
Social services agencies across the state now place nearly half of all individuals and families seeking shelter in hotels, leaving people without resources like food and help finding housing.
Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from accessing services like child care and help finding housing.
Richard Dionisio participated in multiple votes related to a controversial rezoning effort without publicly disclosing his financial interest.
In some counties, the waitlist for state-funded mental health treatment programs can exceed two years.
The state is pushing ahead on all-electric buildings, but a draft update to the building code leaves out other key recommendations from the state’s climate plan.
The state has yet to publish a building code update, promised in December, which should include requirements to phase out fossil fuel appliances in new homes.
The Bronx Community Foundation spent almost none of the funds it raised for victims of the 2022 Twin Parks apartment fire.
Hochul is pushing an array of financial incentives to tackle the state’s housing crisis. But will they make a dent?
Our team will be descending upon Albany on Tuesday. Here’s what they’ll be watching.
New York Focus reporter Sam Mellins reflects on what he learned this year, and teases what lies ahead for 2025.
An advisory group set up under a 2021 state law finalized its proposals to cut child poverty in half.
A newly discovered 80-page housing package would have included good cause eviction, but legislators were dissuaded by Kathy Hochul’s opposition.
For tenants in the first upstate city to adopt rent stabilization, benefiting from the law’s basic protections is an uphill battle.
Advocates charge that New York’s restrictions for sex offense registrants are “vague, expansive, and unnecessary.” On Tuesday, they filed a federal lawsuit to strike them down.
A quarter of lawmakers in Albany are landlords. Almost none of them are covered by the most significant tenant protection law in years.