The closely watched race to buy Brooklyn’s Starrett City apartment complex is now down to one bidder.
Sources say the current owners of the housing development are now talking with one group that includes the Christian Cultural Center, the nonprofit Housing Partnership Development Corporation, and two developers.
The deal isn’t set in stone, but sources say the [...]
The marshals who evict people from their New York City apartments have begun an unofficial two-week holiday.
The marshals have been honoring the eviction moratorium for decades but don’t seem to know when or why it began. Tenant advocates say it probably was created to help landlords avoid negative publicity for tossing people out at Christmas.
Bronx [...]
Property tax rebate checks are almost ready to be sent out.
According to The New York Post, the city finance department plans to start mailing the checks on Monday, which means most homeowners will receive their payment sometime around New Year’s Day.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg had proposed canceling the checks due to the city’s growing budget deficit.
A [...]
Residents of the 11th state Senate district in northeast Queens may be without an Albany representative next month as the legal wrangling over that seat continues.
An appellate court is expected to decide today whether the Board of Elections should resume counting almost 2,000 paper ballots previously marked invalid.
Republicans are expected to appeal any decision that [...]
With one eye on the canyon-like budget gaps and the other on reelection, City Council members voted 33 to 18 last week for a 7% property tax rate hike.
As far as Mayor Bloomberg is concerned, the 18 no-sayers took the cowardly route, not taking responsibility for assuring essential services and workers – such as cops, [...]
City Council member and State Senator-elect Hiram Monserrate is free on $5,000 bail after being arraigned Friday on charges stemming from an alleged attack on his girlfriend.
Monserrate pleaded not guilty Friday night to felony assault and weapons possession charges.
The arraignment came hours after the 41-year-old former city police officer was led from the 105th Precinct [...]
Outgoing Queens City Councilman Hiram Monserrate -pleaded not charged Friday night to second-degree assault charges and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
According to the Queens district attorney, Monserrate was arrested early Friday for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend with a piece of broken glass. If convicted, the 41-year-old Democratic lawmaker faces up to seven years in [...]
By a vote of 33 to 18, the city council Thursday raised the city’s property tax rate by seven percent, adding an average of $118 to the property tax bill of single family homeowners.
Council members in favor of the hike defended the move, saying it was a responsible act given the city’s worsening fiscal outlook [...]
Without much fanfare, Governor David Paterson signed into law on Monday a bill calling for the collection and recycling of plastic carryout bags which have become a major environmental threat and a serious problem in the nation’s garbage landfills.
The law, which caused much consternation in the City Council, which had passed a law the city [...]
As the Bloomberg administration grapples with a $4 billion budget shortfall over the next two years, city employees may soon be asked to foot a chunk of the bill.
The city could shave at least $2 billion annually from its spending by requiring municipal workers to contribute to their health insurance costs and work regular 40-hour [...]
